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School food shake-up big win for kids
Monday, 11 June 2007, 10:05 am | Green Party
The Green Party is delighted that its years of campaigning and its cooperation agreement with the Government have helped secure the introduction of new rules that require schools to sell only healthy food and drink to students. More >>
Greens welcome government support on waste
Friday, 8 June 2007, 3:41 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is welcoming the Government's strong public statement of support for the Waste Minimisation Bill today during the announcement of the results of the New Zealand Waste Strategy 2006 Review of Progress. More >>
Telecom Files Court Documents
Friday, 8 June 2007, 2:38 pm | Green Party
Telecom New Zealand will today file documents at the New Zealand High Court in relation to its intention to return around NZ$1.1b of capital to shareholders by way of a Court and shareholder approved Scheme of Arrangement. More >>
Greens welcome bold vision of carbon neutral capit
Friday, 8 June 2007, 2:33 pm | Green Party
Wellington-based Green MP Sue Kedgley is rapt the Wellington City Council has accepted the challenge of becoming a carbon neutral city, and eagerly anticipates the strong focus on public transport and electrification this will inevitably bring. More >>
Threatened dolphins need Government sanctuary
Friday, 8 June 2007, 10:32 am | Green Party
The Green Party has welcomed the proposal from Forest and Bird to establish a marine mammal sanctuary along the west coast of the North Island to protect the critically endangered Maui dolphin, and is calling on the Government to urgently back the proposal. More >>
Greens welcome anniversary, warn on complacency
Friday, 8 June 2007, 10:11 am | Green Party
The Green Party is celebrating the 20th anniversary of New Zealand's Nuclear Free Legislation, but says there is still a lot to do. "Twenty years ago we were the mouse that roared, and this helped inspire other nations to set up nuclear-free zones, ... More >>
G8 leaders fail the planet
Friday, 8 June 2007, 12:34 am | Green Party
A huge opportunity to make a real impact on global climate change has been missed thanks to the United States' continued refusal to commit to binding greenhouse gas emissions targets at the G8 meeting, the Green Party says. More >>
End taxpayer investment in nuclear weapons
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 5:11 pm | Green Party
Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman is presenting a petition to Parliament tomorrow - the 20th anniversary of nuclear free laws - calling for the Government to stop investing money in nuclear weapons. More >>
Windfarm welcomed, but energy demands must reduce
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 3:57 pm | Green Party
Dunedin-based Green MP Metiria Turei has welcomed the opening tomorrow near Lumsden of Meridian Energy's White Hill Wind Farm, whose 58MW output will be sufficient to provide power for the entire 30,000 homes in the Southland - Invercargill region. More >>
Data on overseas ownership of housing needed
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 2:14 pm | Green Party
No-one knows what percentage of New Zealand’s towns and cities is owned by foreigners, says Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman. More >>
Funding boost fantastic news
Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 9:19 am | Green Party
The Green Party is delighted the world class Karori Wildlife Sanctuary will receive a funding boost, following the announcement from the Government. "The Karori Sanctuary is an incredible asset to Wellington, to the region and to New Zealand," says Green ... More >>
Pull plug on Canterbury water plan - Greens
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 3:46 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is calling for the Central Plains Water's problem-plagued scheme to be halted immediately so that it can be properly reviewed. This project, which aims to boost dairying in Canterbury, is going to have wide-ranging, irreversible ... More >>
Research buried by political interference
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 12:25 am | Green Party
The Green Party is alarmed by reports of censorship of state funded research that appears to have become the victim of political interference. More >>
Greens pose tough questions for Labour and Nats
Sunday, 3 June 2007, 3:46 pm | Green Party
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has put some hard questions to both the Labour and National parties in her speech to members at the Green's Annual General Meeting in Nelson this morning. More >>
Green globalisation - engagement and self-reliance
Saturday, 2 June 2007, 4:49 pm | Green Party
Green Co-Leader, Dr. Russel Norman, used his speech to 150 members and guests at the annual Green Party conference today to promote a new kind of globalisation, green globalisation, which engages in sustainable trade but also builds our own national ... More >>
Rail priority for fuel tax, carbon neutral city
Friday, 1 June 2007, 1:50 pm | Green Party
The Green Party today strongly supported the call by the Chairman of the Wellington Regional Council to spend a significant amount of the proposed regional fuel tax upgrading the ailing rail network in the Wellington Region. More >>
Akld slows sewage solutions, pockets water revenue
Wednesday, 30 May 2007, 5:22 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is outraged that Auckland City Council has chosen to protect its dividend from Metrowater by letting sewage flow into Auckland harbours for an additional six years. More >>
Frigates should be whale guardians
Wednesday, 30 May 2007, 3:43 pm | Green Party
New Zealand should send frigates, if necessary, to dissuade Japan from slaughtering humpback whales, the Green Party says. Talks between New Zealand, Australia and Japan this morning, at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, ... More >>
Fonterra actions against dairy farming polluters
Wednesday, 30 May 2007, 2:21 pm | Green Party
The Green Party has welcomed Fonterra's plan to help bring about behavioural change among those dairy farmers who persist in flouting their RMA consent conditions and thus increase the pollution of the country's waterways. More >>
Mercury's mercenary practices need urgent review
Wednesday, 30 May 2007, 10:21 am | Green Party
The Green Party wants a full and public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman in Auckland, following the mercenary decision of a power company to cut off electricity providing life-supporting oxygen. More >>
