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Time to commit to two degrees
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 10:05 am | Green Party
The Green Party is urging the Government to stop obfuscating and join the rapidly growing group of countries that have committed to keeping global warming under 2 degrees. More >>
Sub 60 decision-making from the Nats on EFB
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 4:17 pm | Green Party
Green Party MP Metiria Turei today criticised the National Party's hypocrisy over the speed with which the Electoral Finance Bill is being passed through Parliament - given that their deputy leader Bill English took less than an hour last night to ... More >>
Support for Amnesty's concern over Afghan's
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 1:53 pm | Green Party
Green Party MP Keith Locke has supported Amnesty International's call for a moratorium on New Zealand forces handing over any prisoners to Afghan authorities. More >>
IT industry needs to clean up its footprint
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 1:50 pm | Green Party
A British report into the environmental impacts of the IT industry claims that computer servers are at least as much of a threat to the environment as SUV's or the aviation industry. More >>
Marginal views misrepresented as mainstream
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 1:20 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is disappointed that the Sensible Sentencing Trust and Family First have sunk to the level of misrepresenting the perspective of a religious lobby group as balanced research, and refutes their conclusion that smacking is an effective ... More >>
Reporting DHB adverse events must be mandatory
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 10:52 am | Green Party
Green Party MP Sue Kedgley is repeating her call for standardised, mandatory reporting and publication of all adverse events in New Zealand hospitals, following the Dominion Post's exposé of 23 cases of serious medical mishaps between 2003 and 2005, including ... More >>
Business Roundtable member behind attack on reform
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 4:30 pm | Green Party
A member of the Business Roundtable is behind the marches against campaign finance reform says the Green Party. The man paying an organiser to run the marches against the Electoral Finance Bill, John Boscawen, is a member of the Business Roundtable, ... More >>
Business Roundtable member behind attack
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 4:06 pm | Green Party
A member of the Business Roundtable is behind the marches against campaign finance reform says the Green Party. The man paying an organiser to run the marches against the Electoral Finance Bill, John Boscawen, is a member of the Business Roundtable, ... More >>
Emissions Trading Scheme full of holes
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 3:38 pm | Green Party
The Government's proposed Emissions Trading Scheme is well designed but will take years to have much effect on our greenhouse emissions, and meanwhile world levels are skyrocketing to dangerous levels, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says. More >>
Crucial care mustn't be sacrificed to bottom line
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 2:10 pm | Green Party
The Green Party says the policy of pushing mothers and babies out of hospital within hours of giving birth must stop. More >>
Country of Origin petition to be presented Thurs
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 12:53 am | Green Party
Green Party MP Sue Kedgley will be presenting a 39,000 signature petition calling for mandatory country of origin labelling on all fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and single component foods at 1pm this Thursday in the West Foyer in Parliament. More >>
Greens issue sustainability challenge to Govt
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 12:12 am | Green Party
The Green Party is congratulating the Government on its new sustainability website, but is issuing its own sustainability challenge to the Prime Minister. More >>
Maori woman and low-income to stay without quals
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 12:06 am | Green Party
Green Party Education Spokesperson Metiria Turei is dismayed at Auckland University's announcement that it will be turning away thousands of people seeking higher education by restricting entry to undergraduate programmes. More >>
China trumps Bali
Monday, 3 December 2007, 2:00 pm | Green Party
The New Zealand - China free trade talks underway again today are standing in the way of action on climate change and tropical forest destruction says the Green Party. This is in spite of all the talk about the climate change conference in Bali. More >>
Holcim a millstone for climate change efforts
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 3:37 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is very disappointed with an interim decision indicating support for cement giant Holcim's plans to build a massive cement plant at Weston, near Oamaru. More >>
Dolphins need protection over summer - Greens
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 2:35 pm | Green Party
The Minister of Fisheries has delivered a blow to the critically endangered Maui's dolphins and to the thousands of people who made submissions on the Dolphin Management Plan, the Green Party say. More >>
Mothers and babies deserve sanctuary not bribes
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 11:42 am | Green Party
The Health Minister must reassess the Government's approach to post-natal care in response to admissions today of mothers being paid $100 to leave hospital early after giving birth, the Green Party says. More >>
Superfund should end investment in Taser torture
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 11:48 am | Green Party
Green Party Police Spokesperson Keith Locke wants the New Zealand Superannuation Fund to end its investment in Taser International. "I was amazed to find that our Super Fund had a $780,000 investment in the producers of the controversial electric ... More >>
There's more than one way to foul the water
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 3:38 pm | Green Party
Federated Farmers President Charlie Pedersen's claim that water quality is improving in the Manawatu area due to farmers' improvements is being challenged by Green Party MP Nandor Tanczos. More >>
Obesity strategy several steps short of adequate
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 3:16 pm | Green Party
The Green Party says that the Government has taken an important step today by responding largely positively to the Health Select Committees' Inquiry into obesity and type two diabetes. More >>
