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Wellington icon finally saved, say Greens
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 5:35 pm | Green Party
Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says she is delighted that a Wellington icon has been saved and that Wellingtonians will soon have a modern fleet of trolley buses to ride around in. More >>
Ambulance crewing reaching crisis point
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 4:57 pm | Green Party
The Government must confront the worsening situation in New Zealand ambulance services which has reached a new low, with around 70 percent of all emergency call outs in the Central District being responded to by single crewed ambulances over recent months, ... More >>
New prisons not sustainable
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 1:57 pm | Green Party
Green MP Metiria Turei is pleased to see an improvement in facilities, but saddened at the continued need to build more and more prisons after attending the opening of the Otago Correction Facility in Milton today. More >>
Police no longer the meat in sandwich at Subway
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 1:06 pm | Green Party
The Green Party has welcomed the news that the Police have now decided to use common sense, exercise their discretion and drop their prosecution of sacked Subway worker Jackie Lang, Greens Industrial Relations Spokesperson Sue Bradford says. More >>
Patient death audit system a worthy investment
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 10:41 am | Green Party
The Green Party is urging the Government to fund a proposal by surgeons which could save hundreds of lives by reducing fatal errors in the operating theatre. The Royal College of Surgeons wants funding to set up national audits of its operating systems, ... More >>
Greens aim to tip the balance on Council
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 9:22 am | Green Party
The Green Party has announced that Iona Pannett, the party’s spokesperson for Wellington City, will stand for the City Council’s Lambton Ward in this year’s local body elections. More >>
Howard not a good example of sustainability
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 9:11 am | Green Party
The Howard government is providing an example of unsustainable economic management by using the income generated by mining royalties in order to pay for tax cuts, and the National Party Finance Spokesperson Bill English is wrong to think that is a ... More >>
NZ-made programmes lowest since charter introduced
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 5:06 pm | Green Party
The latest New Zealand On Air local content television survey, showing that the number of hours of New Zealand programmes on TV One and 2 continued to decline last year, is an indictment of current broadcasting policy, Green Party Broadcasting Spokesperson ... More >>
Carbon scheme adopts Green ideas, but too slowly
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 3:14 pm | Green Party
"It is great to see the Government has adopted so much of the Green Party's climate change policy in its plan for a carbon trading scheme, but disappointing that it will take so long for any real action to happen, Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons ... More >>
Fair Trade Documentary Black Gold
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 11:44 am | Green Party
The Fair Trade Association and the Green Party Present "Black Gold" As part of Fair Trade Fortnight (28 April - 13 May), The Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand (FTAANZ) and the Green Party are co-hosting a special one-off screening ... More >>
Let’s go renewable not nuclear
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 10:22 am | Green Party
Renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and potentially tidal and wave, offer a safe and climate friendly energy future to New Zealand says the Green Party. There is absolutely no need for us to use nuclear power which is ... More >>
Greens applaud Govt scrapping of sedition laws
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 8:16 am | Green Party
Green Party MP Keith Locke welcomed Cabinet's decision to scrap the sedition laws, which Prime Minister Helen Clark said today were out of date, given that in her view any offences within its ambit could now be prosecuted under other laws. More >>
Let’s go renewable not nuclear
Monday, 7 May 2007, 9:31 am | Green Party
Renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and potentially tidal and wave, offer a safe and climate friendly energy future to New Zealand says the Green Party. There is absolutely no need for us to use nuclear power which is ... More >>
Greens win $8.8 million wetland conservation
Sunday, 6 May 2007, 2:36 pm | Green Party
This year’s successful Budget bid for freshwater conservation will do much to enhance the ecological restoration of three of New Zealand’s foremost wetlands, the Green Party announced today. More >>
Let’s get serious on climate change
Saturday, 5 May 2007, 2:54 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on the Government to get serious about reducing our greenhouse emissions in light of the big increase in emissions revealed today. It is time to try a new approach – let the polluter pay – and in that way create economic signals ... More >>
Timberlands and Govt fail the West Coast
Friday, 4 May 2007, 5:04 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is asking where is the accountability in Timberlands and Government after it was revealed that Timberlands had failed to grow sufficient plantation timber to meet the needs of the West Coast sawmilling industry, and that lumber was being ... More >>
Once again NZFSA is failing the test, Greens say
Friday, 4 May 2007, 4:27 pm | Green Party
The melamine contamination scare has highlighted that the New Zealand Food Safety Authority needs to undertake regular testing of imported foods, particularly those coming from China, the Green Party says. More >>
Admission must trigger ambulance service review
Friday, 4 May 2007, 1:14 pm | Green Party
Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says the admission by St Johns Ambulance that up to 60,000 ambulance callouts a year may be single crewed is staggering, and urgent action is needed to put mandatory standards in place within the ambulance ... More >>
Warrants of Fitness needed for rental housing,
Thursday, 3 May 2007, 2:49 pm | Green Party
The just-released Otago University study of 412 homes that has made a direct link between cold housing and ill health in children demonstrates once again the need for tighter controls on the quality of rental housing in this country, Green Party ... More >>
Single Ambulance Crewing Putting Lives at Risk
Thursday, 3 May 2007, 1:56 pm | Green Party
A report from the New Zealand Ambulance Association shows that lives are being put at risk around the country by the widespread use of single crewed ambulances to respond to emergencies, Green Health spokesperson Sue Kedgley says. More >>
