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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 >>
Locke Taser complaint under UN Torture Convetion
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 11:58 am | Green Party
Green Party Police Spokesperson Keith Locke is asking the Police Complaints Authority to consider whether the introduction of the Taser stun gun would be contrary to New Zealand's commitments under the UN Convention Against Torture. More >>
Protect livestock all the way - Greens
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 12:00 am | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on the Government to address the inhumane conditions suffered by animals during transport to export markets. More >>
Birth death and marriage records access protected
Friday, 23 November 2007, 10:49 am | Green Party
Green Party MP Keith Locke and United Future's Peter Dunne have welcomed Labour's agreement to allow open access to births, deaths and marriage records. More >>
No more whaling, please
Friday, 23 November 2007, 12:50 am | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on the Japanese Government to recall its whaling fleet and spare the lives of the more than 1000 whales it plans to slaughter for 'scientific purposes' in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. More >>
Climate change bill aims to future-proof transport
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 3:37 pm | Green Party
Parliament could soon be taking some real steps to counter both climate change and the rising cost of fuel thanks to the drawing today of one of the Green Party's Six Pack of Climate Change Bills announced last November. More >>
New law allows employees to vary working hours
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 9:59 am | Green Party
Workers have a new right giving them more say over the hours they work, with last night's passage of the Employment Relations (Flexible Working Arrangements) Act, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley said today. More >>
Future of NZ sea lion cast in doubt by Minister
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 9:59 am | Green Party
The Minister of Fisheries has set the permissible sea lion by-kill too high to allow the threatened population to recover to sustainable levels, Green Party Conservation Spokesperson Metiria Turei says. More >>
NZ gets a bad report from UN on greenhouse
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 9:53 am | Green Party
The Greens are calling for renewed efforts to reduce our greenhouse emissions in light of a UN report that shows that New Zealand is amongst one of the worst in the industrialised world for increases in greenhouse gas emissions over the period 1990-2005. More >>
National Must Come Clean on EBs Slogan
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 4:23 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on National to come clean on whether their Campaign Manager, Steven Joyce, did or did not suggest the slogan "change the government" to the Exclusive Brethren in light of revelations to that effect by Nicky Hager today. More >>
New information should see Sounds case reopened
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 4:12 pm | Green Party
New information about a ketch seen at the time of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope's disappearance casts enough doubt on the conviction of Scott Watson to warrant reopening the case, Green Party Justice Spokesperson Nandor Tanczos says. More >>
