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Tomorrow's schools failing many students - Greens

Monday, 19 March 2007, 10:53 am | Green Party

The 1980s' Tomorrow's schools experiment is clearly failing many students and it is time for it to be reviewed, the Green Party says. Green Party Education Spokesperson Metiria Turei says while the Tomorrow's schools programme has provided greater community ... More >>

DHB tactics place patient safety at threat

Monday, 19 March 2007, 10:35 am | Green Party

DHB tactics intended to force many rural pharmacies to shut down and be replaced with medicine depots are a serious threat to patient safety, Green Party Health spokesperson Sue Kedgley says. More >>

Doubt over safety of NZ approved foods

Saturday, 17 March 2007, 3:27 pm | Green Party

The Green Party is calling for FSANZ to immediately withdraw its approval for human consumption of a genetically modified corn after it was revealed the company hid test results showing it caused illness in rats. More >>

Nandor marks Cloth Nappy Week

Friday, 16 March 2007, 10:01 am | Green Party

Green Party MP Nandor Tanczos is marking Real Cloth Nappy week by writing to the manufacturers of disposable nappies to ask them about their environmental impacts. More >>

No Conflict Between Bill And PM's comments

Thursday, 15 March 2007, 4:10 pm | Green Party

Green Party MP Sue Bradford today described the furore over the Prime Minister's 2005 comments on smacking as being misguided, and said that the Prime Minister's statements were consistent with the aims of her Bill. More >>

Government continues to fail Maori in education

Thursday, 15 March 2007, 2:31 pm | Green Party

The decline in Maori participation in tertiary reflects the Government's slashing of Maori support programmes, the Green Party says. Figures released by the Education Ministry this week show that the participation of Maori in tertiary education declined ... More >>

Doubt on safety of NZ approved foods

Thursday, 15 March 2007, 1:50 pm | Green Party

Contact Energy grasps climate change opportunity

Thursday, 15 March 2007, 12:43 am | Green Party

The Green Party today welcomed the steps taken by Contact Energy to help its electricity and gas customers to reduce their carbon emissions, and the prospect of competition between SOEs and Contact Energy over the best package of responses to climate change, ... More >>

Green-initiated organics programme launched

Wednesday, 14 March 2007, 2:07 pm | Green Party

The Green Party is today welcoming the launch of one of its key post-election negotiated programmes - the Organic Advisory Service. More >>

Government finally gets the message about rail

Wednesday, 14 March 2007, 11:47 am | Green Party

The Green Party welcomes the Government's decision to re-open and revamp the railway line between Onehunga and Penrose, and now urges the Government to take the logical next step and greenlight the electrification of the network, Auckland-based Green ... More >>

Therapeutic Bill looking like a dead duck

Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 5:20 pm | Green Party

It is increasingly looking as if the Government will suffer an embarrassing defeat over its Therapeutic Products and Medicines bill, the Green Party says. "The bill passed its first reading by the narrowest of margins - by one vote. If, as indicated, ... More >>

Shoot-outs in sky possible, in name of security

Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 3:55 pm | Green Party

Green MP Keith Locke has warned against the danger of legally allowing foreign armed air marshals onto planes coming into New Zealand, as proposed by the Aviation Security Legislation Bill introduced into Parliament today. More >>

Give it up Solid Energy - you don't need the money

Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 3:46 pm | Green Party

The Green Party has called on State-Owned Enterprise Solid Energy to waive $5760 awarded to it in costs by the High Court. The High Court awarded the costs in relation to a judicial review brought by the Save Happy Valley Coalition over a Ministerial ... More >>

Law Commission clarifies S59 position

Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 1:55 pm | Green Party

Green Party Sue Bradford welcomed the support from the Maori Party caucus, from NGOs and from select committee chair Lynne Pillay at a press conference today, at which she released a Law Commission legal opinion on her amended Bill. More >>

Locke glad SAS not returning to Afghanistan

Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 8:23 am | Green Party

Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke has welcomed the Government's decision not to send SAS troops back to Afghanistan. More >>

To be sustainable, NZ needs local manufacturers

Monday, 12 March 2007, 11:31 am | Green Party

In its efforts to enhance exporting, New Zealand cannot afford to neglect the local manufacturing base and the local markets that so often provide the necessary platforms for success within the global economy, Green Party Regional Development Spokesperson ... More >>