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Fiji boy-scouts shouldn't be blamed
Thursday, 20 December 2007, 5:06 pm | Green Party
Green Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke has expressed surprise at reports that our High Commission in Suva had tried to stop 10 Fijian boy-scouts from entering the country to attend a Scout Jamboree in Christchurch. More >>
Need to rethink unregulated foreign investment
Thursday, 20 December 2007, 4:20 pm | Green Party
Today’s figures showing a widening of the current account deficit to 8.3% of GDP shows the long term damage done to the New Zealand economy by two decades of reckless liberalising of foreign investment rules by successive Labour and National governments ... More >>
NZ must deliver blunt message on whaling
Thursday, 20 December 2007, 4:16 pm | Green Party
The Greens are urging the Government to make New Zealand's anger and revulsion clear in the strongest possible terms when it takes part in an international diplomatic protest against Japan's whaling programme. More >>
Bright future for efficient hot water technologies
Thursday, 20 December 2007, 3:20 pm | Green Party
Government Spokesperson on Energy Efficiency and Conservation, Jeanette Fitzsimons, today announced that 22 projects have been offered a total of $800,000 in the first round of an Innovation Fund to encourage smart innovations in solar and heat-pump ... More >>
Government caves in to Monsanto
Thursday, 20 December 2007, 12:28 am | Green Party
The Government has failed New Zealanders by approving a potentially hazardous GM food ingredient, setting a dangerous precedent that will let other untested animals feed products enter the country's food chain, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons ... More >>
Better services the top priority - Greens
Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 1:14 pm | Green Party
The first priority for the possible $1.5 billion tax cuts should be environmental protection, public health and public education, the Green Party says. More >>
Greens win Citizens' Jury
Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 11:44 am | Green Party
Campaign funding and finance will be examined by a Citizens' Jury, following an agreement between the Green Party and the Government. More >>
Government luxury BMWs exceed own energy targets
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 5:10 pm | Green Party
The Government agreement to purchase 34 luxury six cylinder BMWs over the next three years contravenes their own fuel efficiency standard for diesel vehicles as laid out in the Energy Efficiency Conservation Strategy, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette ... More >>
38 ways to better protect victims of crime
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 2:00 pm | Green Party
The Justice and Electoral select committee has today reported back from its inquiry into the rights of victims in the criminal justice system. The inquiry was initiated by the Green Party following the passage of the Prisoners and Victim Claims Compensation ... More >>
Frank Kitts decision to be rammed through
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 1:39 pm | Green Party
The decision to bypass the Wellington City Council’s Strategy and Policy Committee days before Christmas to finalise the controversial new design for Frank Kitts Park at the last meeting of the Council sends the wrong message to a public rightly cynical ... More >>
BGI to be demolished
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 11:27 am | Green Party
“The decision by the Wellington City Council to issue a building consent today to Foodstuffs to demolish the historic Boys and Girls Institute and associated buildings in Mt Cook for a new supermarket highlights serious problems with the Building Act ... More >>
Greens welcome minimum wage increase
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 10:09 am | Green Party
The Green Party is delighted that the Government will honour its commitment to increase the minimum wage to $12 an hour in line with Labour's agreements with the Green Party and NZ First after the 2005 election. More >>
Greens congratulate Bay of Plenty farmers
Monday, 17 December 2007, 2:04 pm | Green Party
The Green Party welcomes the announcement today by Environment Bay of Plenty that 91 percent of dairy farms checked in annual monitoring are meeting their resource consent conditions. More >>
Government, not police, should make Taser decision
Monday, 17 December 2007, 1:55 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke has written to the Prime Minister urging the Government, not the police, to make the decision over whether Tasers should be brought into the police armoury. More >>
Improvements to Police Conduct Authority Welcomed
Monday, 17 December 2007, 1:47 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is welcoming yesterday's announcement by the Government to improve the Independent Police Conduct Authority. More >>
National’s chilling effect on free speech
Saturday, 15 December 2007, 1:13 pm | Green Party
National’s misleading statements about the impact of the Electoral Finance Bill may have a chilling impact on free speech says the Green Party, and National should stop acting irresponsibly. More >>
"We will fight for them on the beaches" - Greens
Saturday, 15 December 2007, 1:07 pm | Green Party
New Zealanders are being urged to pick up arms - buckets and spades and head for the beaches this summer in the fight against Japanese whaling. More >>
Meds strategy long on rhetoric, short on solutions
Friday, 14 December 2007, 1:17 pm | Green Party
The Green Party says the newly released Medicines New Zealand strategy has plenty of rhetoric but is short on innovation or practical measures to achieve its goals. More >>
Yet more GE food to be approved for New Zealand
Friday, 14 December 2007, 10:44 am | Green Party
The Greens are alarmed that Food Standards Australia New Zealand has announced three new applications for genetically engineered commodities to be permitted into our food supply - two cotton varieties and one corn. More >>
Rangitoto: Bird-sanctuary of choice for PR stunts
Friday, 14 December 2007, 10:24 am | Green Party
The Green Party believe that there is a great economic opportunity for the Department of Conservation in making Rangitoto and Motutapu islands into sanctuaries for endangered birds species. More >>
