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Dairy farming putting water quality at risk
Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 4:22 pm | Green Party
The Government today acknowledged that continued intensification of dairy farming like that in Canterbury is posing a threat to public health through its effect on drinking water. More >>
Stay strong on One Plan - Greens tell Horizons
Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 4:03 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is encouraging Manawatu-Wanganui's Horizons Regional Council to show courage over its One Plan to address resource use in the region. "There is widespread concern about the state of the waterways in the region, especially the Manawatu River," ... More >>
WTO Excuse Not Good Enmough Over Imports
Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 1:30 pm | Green Party
The Green Party believes Forestry Minister Jim Anderton has got his priorities back to front by refusing to stop the importation of illegally and unsustainably logged kwila timber and kwila outdoor furniture because of his fears that such a ban just ... More >>
Action not words needed on illegal logging
Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 4:14 pm | Green Party
Action not words is needed on illegal logging and the importation of products from it, Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says. More >>
Action not words needed on illegal logging
Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 4:06 pm | Green Party
Action not words is needed on illegal logging and the importation of products from it, Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says More >>
Climate change ball is in Government's court
Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 1:48 pm | Green Party
Hundreds of people around New Zealand have committed to taking steps to reduce the impact of climate change and are now waiting on the Government to make its move. More >>
Benefit denial may be more widespread
Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 10:35 am | Green Party
Green Party Social Development Spokesperson Sue Bradford said she was shocked to hear today of two Rotorua teenagers who were told by Work and Income that they were not eligible for the unemployment benefit. More >>
Orangutan And Grim Reaper Protest Outside ANZ
Monday, 20 August 2007, 2:27 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is urging New Zealanders to cut links to ANZ unless the banking group stops supporting a huge tropical rainforests logging company. More >>
Greens start campaign against ANZ
Monday, 20 August 2007, 9:51 am | Green Party
The Green Party is urging New Zealanders to cut links to ANZ unless the banking group stops supporting a huge tropical rainforests logging company. Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says the party is starting a campaign outside selected ANZ branches with colourful ... More >>
Greens start campaign against ANZ
Monday, 20 August 2007, 9:31 am | Green Party
The Green Party is urging New Zealanders to cut links to ANZ unless the banking group stops supporting a huge tropical rainforests logging company. Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says the party is starting a campaign outside selected ANZ branches with colourful ... More >>
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 >>
