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End free parking – introduce free shopper bus
Friday, 17 August 2007, 1:47 pm | Green Party
The Green Party today proposed introducing a free shopper bus to encourage shoppers into the inner city on a Saturday and that the initiative of free weekend parking be abandoned. More >>
Government and Air NZ making Murdoch the fall-guy
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 4:43 pm | Green Party
Air New Zealand and Government ministers should step up and take responsibility for the debacle over our national carrier ferrying Australian troops to the Iraq war. More >>
'Go sustainable, Go Organic' Greens tell Landcorp
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 1:12 pm | Green Party
The Green Party has today called for Government-owned farmer Landcorp to get serious about sustainability by committing to going organic on half of its farms by 2020. More >>
Big parties fight to protect big money supporters
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 9:40 am | Green Party
Labour and National are fighting to protect their big money supporters in the catfight around the Electoral Finance Bill instead of acting in a principled way to reduce the influence of big money on politics says the Green Party. More >>
No more 'coming the raw prawn' thanks
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 8:38 am | Green Party
Assurances from the New Zealand Food Safety Authority about the safety of imported Chinese seafood following a one-off test on a sample of just 31 items should be met with caution, the Green Party says. More >>
Air NZ ferrying of Oz troops to Iraq 'appalling'
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 4:43 pm | Green Party
The revelations in the latest Investigate magazine that Air New Zealand has been flying Australian combat troops across the Pacific and up to the Iraqi border is an appalling piece of misjudgement by the airline, Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson ... More >>
Coal diesel going down the wrong road - Greens
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 2:37 pm | Green Party
Plans by Solid Energy for a "multi-billion" dollar lignite-based liquid fuel plant in Southland will make a joke of New Zealand's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Green Party says. More >>
Handcuffing of weak hunger striker shocking
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 2:07 pm | Green Party
Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke has been shocked to hear that Iranian hunger striker Ali Panah has been handcuffed to a guard while lying in Auckland hospital. More >>
Wage discrimination bill reaches next stage
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 9:34 am | Green Party
There will be one last chance for Parliament to amend Green Party MP Sue Bradford's private member's bill, originally aimed at abolishing wage discrimination for 16 and 17-year-old workers, when it undergoes its committee stages debate in the House ... More >>
Greens applaud move towards NZ rules
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 8:36 am | Green Party
Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley is delighted that the natural health sector has come up with the outline of a New Zealand based regulatory system for natural health products. More >>
Potential long term impacts of 1080 use ignored
Tuesday, 14 August 2007, 8:42 am | Green Party
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is disappointed that ERMA has not properly studied and evaluated the long term toxicity of 1080 in their report released today. More >>
Greens voice concern over health of hunger striker
Monday, 13 August 2007, 5:32 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke today expressed concern about the deteriorating health of Iranian hunger striker, Ali Panah, after visiting him in Auckland hospital. Mr Panah is on the 32nd day of a hunger strike protesting efforts to deport him. He has been in ... More >>
On balance, Harawira doing the right thing
Friday, 10 August 2007, 10:56 am | Green Party
The Green Party has come out against criticism of Maori Party MP Hone Harawira for leaving a select committee working trip to Victoria on election finance and victims rights, in order to go to Alice Springs to discuss the plight of Aboriginal communities ... More >>
Kedgley applauds Foodstuffs for country of origin
Friday, 10 August 2007, 12:43 am | Green Party
Green Party Safe Food Spokesperson Sue Kedgley is delighted that Foodstuffs New Zealand has agreed to label its meat, fish, fruit and vegetables, in response to overwhelming consumer demand generated in part, by the Greens' campaign for mandatory country ... More >>
Gowan reprieve good news for Conservation Week
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 5:39 pm | Green Party
The Greens are thrilled the Environment Court has upheld the Buller River Water Conservation Order which was threatened by a power project planned for the Gowan River, one of our most significant waterways and the mighty Buller River's major tributary. More >>
New telecommunication standards unacceptable
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 10:23 am | Green Party
Proposed new standards that would allow telecommunication companies to install masts, antennas, mobile phone transmitters and equipment cabinets in residential areas without a resource consent are unacceptable said Iona Pannett, Wellington City Spokesperson ... More >>
Parliament not to be treated as a rubber stamp
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 10:19 am | Green Party
Tuesday's proposals by Climate Change Minister David Parker on how permits will be allocated under New Zealand's proposed emissions trading scheme have been criticised by Green Party Co- Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons for effectively bypassing Parliament, ... More >>
Plans ride roughshod over cellphone health concern
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 12:39 am | Green Party
The Green Party has rejected the rushed timeframe for the Environment Ministry's controversial proposed National Standards for Telecommunications Facilities, and is calling for the public to be offered the same timeframe to make submissions on ... More >>
Origin labels for clothing and footwear for bin?
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 12:29 am | Green Party
The Green Party is shocked and surprised to hear the Government has plans to scrap country of origin labelling for footwear and clothes. "Consumers will be alarmed by government plans to dispense with the requirement that clothes and footwear carry ... More >>
Tragic reminder of the challenge ahead
Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 5:32 pm | Green Party
Scientists' conclusion that the Yangtze River dolphin or Baiji is functionally extinct is a cautionary reminder to New Zealanders that several of our rare marine mammals face the same fate. More >>
