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Transport visa requirements bureaucracy gone mad

Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 3:30 pm | Green Party

Green Party MP Keith Locke has criticised the new requirements for people passing through New Zealand airports to get a transit visa. More >>

Transport visa requirements bureaucracy gone mad

Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 1:47 pm | Green Party

Green Party MP Keith Locke has criticised the new requirements for people passing through New Zealand airports to get a transit visa. "This requirement creates an unnecessary bureaucratic nightmare for travellers from poorer countries," says Mr ... More >>

NZ Govt caught over Bainimarama support for China

Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 2:34 pm | Green Party

Green Party MP Keith Locke wants the Government to criticise the Fiji Government's support for the Chinese actions in Tibet. The Fiji Prime Minister's secretary Parmesh Chand confirmed today that a letter of support had been sent to the Chinese Government. More >>

Protest against "blood furniture" trade

Saturday, 22 March 2008, 1:19 pm | Green Party

Mana Green Party members will hold a protest at the front entrance of Harvey Norman's megastore at Porirua on Easter Saturday calling on the store to commit to not stocking "blood furniture" from illegally and unsustainably logged tropical kwila ... More >>

Greens urge Govt to act on cell phones

Thursday, 20 March 2008, 5:08 pm | Green Party

Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says she is heartened by the results of a Research New Zealand survey showing that 85 percent of New Zealanders support making it an offence to use a mobile phone while driving. More >>

Minister washes his hands of Easter trading

Thursday, 20 March 2008, 3:49 pm | Green Party

The Labour Minister needs to protect the right of workers to spend Easter Sunday with their families, Sue Bradford, Green Party Spokesperson on Employment Relations says. More >>

Minister has got it wrong on Dolphin deaths

Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 1:51 pm | Green Party

The scientist who provoked the Conservation Minister into releasing photos of 22 bloody and battered dolphin carcasses on the deck of a fishing boat through an official information request says that the Common Dolphin species urgently needs to be reclassified ... More >>

Greens support for forestry offset conditional

Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 11:04 am | Green Party

The Flexible Land Use Alliance, which has announced it has a parliamentary majority for its forestry offset scheme, needs to realise that the Green Party's support is conditional. More >>

Locke calls for stronger support for Tibetans

Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 9:13 am | Green Party

The Green Party will be supporting this motion, although we would have liked it to be much stronger and clearly taken the side of the Tibetan people against their Chinese oppressors. More >>

Kedgley to stand in Wellington Central

Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 10:01 am | Green Party

Green Party MP Sue Kedgley has been selected as Green Party candidate for Wellington Central. More >>

Govt FTA stance falls short on Tibetan rights

Monday, 17 March 2008, 5:34 pm | Green Party

Green Party MP Keith Locke said the Prime Ministers' post-Cabinet statement is letting down the Tibetan people and selling short the people of New Zealand. "Ms Clark's view that the free trade agreement with China has nothing to do with its human rights ... More >>

Is Hawke's Bay DHB problem the tip of an iceberg?

Monday, 17 March 2008, 5:30 pm | Green Party

The Green Party is calling for mandatory reporting and tightening of the rules surrounding potential conflict of interest in the light of the Hawke's Bay District Health Board report released today. More >>

Industry has more courage then Govt on cell phones

Friday, 14 March 2008, 11:06 am | Green Party

The Green Party is calling on the Government to stop procrastinating and make it an offence to text message or converse on a hand held mobile phone while driving. More >>

Meridian threatens eels with dam-nation

Friday, 14 March 2008, 9:26 am | Green Party

Meridian's proposed hydro-dam on a wild and pristine West Coast river will hasten the extinction of our long-fin eel population Green Party Conservation Metiria Turei says. More >>

Proposed release of GE vaccine will be protested

Thursday, 13 March 2008, 2:51 pm | Green Party

News that there may soon be an application for the first live GE vaccine to be released in New Zealand will test the stringency of the law and its processes, the Green Party says More >>

Ad industry behaving like King Canute

Thursday, 13 March 2008, 1:55 pm | Green Party

Green Party MP Sue Kedgley is calling on the advertising industry to stop its exaggerated attacks on the Public Health Bill, and to engage instead in serious debate over a public health issue with huge implications for New Zealand and the sustainability ... More >>