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Green Party mourns loss of Maori Queen
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 10:57 am | Green Party
The Green Party is today expressing deep regret at the passing of the Maori Queen, Dame Te Atairangikaahu. More >>
Green Party welcome justice package
Tuesday, 15 August 2006, 3:10 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is welcoming the justice package announced today by the Government, but is expressing some reservations about possible 'net-widening' effects. More >>
ECT often given without consent, mainly to women
Monday, 14 August 2006, 3:29 pm | Green Party
The government needs to explain why twice as many women as men are being administered Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT); and why up to half of these treatments are being given without consent in some parts of New Zealand, Green Party Health Spokesperson ... More >>
Buy Kiwi-Made programme on track
Friday, 11 August 2006, 11:47 am | Green Party
The new Buy Kiwi-Made programme will work alongside and support the present Buy New Zealand Made Campaign and will not be changing the rules about which products can be labelled Made in New Zealand, Government Spokesperson on Buy Kiwi-Made Sue ... More >>
Firm expands, will help glass mountains to recede
Thursday, 10 August 2006, 4:59 pm | Green Party
Nandor Tanczos, Green Party Waste Minimisation Spokesperson, says he is delighted to hear that glass manufacturer, Owens-Illinois of Ohio, has chosen to proceed with its $78 million plant expansion in Auckland. More >>
Porirua City Council steps up on S59
Thursday, 10 August 2006, 3:44 pm | Green Party
Green Party MP Sue Bradford has congratulated the Porirua City Council for its unanimous resolution to support the full repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes Act. The Council last night became the first in the country to back Ms Bradford's Crimes Amendment ... More >>
Police shouldn't help breath-test for school ball
Thursday, 10 August 2006, 3:31 pm | Green Party
Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke has criticised the Police for wasting resources on the objectionable breath-testing of students going to a school ball. More >>
Fixing Vector should not penalise households
Wednesday, 9 August 2006, 5:58 pm | Green Party
The Commerce Commission has to ensure that it is the lines company Vector, and not Auckland householders, that bears the brunt of the Commission's dramatic attack on the alleged "excessive revenues" being extracted by the lines company, Green Party ... More >>
Greens cry foul on Fonterra decision
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 4:35 pm | Green Party
Horizons Manawatu's decision to allow Fonterra to dump the equivalent of 280 milk tankers of waste water from its Longburn plant into the Manawatu River each day is an indication of how little they value the environment, the Green Party says. More >>
Government earns fail mark from Social Report
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 4:19 pm | Green Party
Today's 2006 Social Report shows that the Government is failing to bridge the widening gaps between rich and poor in this country, Green Party Social Development Spokesperson Sue Bradford says. More >>
Environment has no place in Key's future vision
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 2:48 pm | Green Party
Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman expressed disappointment at the total absence of any ecological initiatives in the tax policy blueprint delivered by National Party finance spokesperson John Key in his “Mood of the Boardroom” speech in Auckland ... More >>
Ian - home at last
Monday, 7 August 2006, 9:33 am | Green Party
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons wishes Ian Ewen-Street well in his newly chosen home, the National Party. More >>
The slaughter at sea continues
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 2:56 pm | Green Party
Despite years of promises and reassurances by the Government new figures show the numbers of sea creatures accidentally slaughtered by squid fishing boats remains unacceptably high, the Green Party says. More >>
Visa clampdown unfair
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 11:38 am | Green Party
Green Party MP Keith Locke says the significant increase in visa rejections for those seeking entry to New Zealand has little to do with terrorism. A special immigration profiling unit set up last year has turned down almost three times as many visa applications ... More >>
Code must cover House behaviour too - Greens
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 11:21 am | Green Party
The Green Party is adding its voice to the call for a Parliamentary Code of Conduct to be urgently developed by the Standing Orders Committee. More >>
Declines show that TVNZ Charter is failing
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 11:20 am | Green Party
The latest New Zealand On Air local content television survey, which reveals steeply declining levels of local New Zealand programmes on TV2, is an indictment of current broadcasting policy, Green Party Broadcasting Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says.. More >>
Public confidence must be regained after Field
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 10:46 am | Green Party
The Green Party is pleased that it has forced Taito Phillip Field to apologise for his actions and induced Labour to take its head out of the sand on this issue. More >>
National sacrifices Parliament, for petty gain
Tuesday, 1 August 2006, 4:13 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is deeply disappointed that the National Party chose to block the Greens motion in the House today, which would have addressed concerns raised by the Ingram report, and invited Taito Philip Field to apologise for his actions. More >>
Greens to move motion on findings of Ingram report
Tuesday, 1 August 2006, 1:01 pm | Green Party
The Green Party will move a motion in the House this afternoon expressing concern at the findings of the Ingram report, and calling on Taito Phillip Field to apologise. More >>
Chinese wage rates part of free trade deal?
Monday, 31 July 2006, 5:10 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is asking the Government to reveal whether allowing the entry of Chinese labour into New Zealand, working at Chinese wage rates, is on the table at the free trade talks that recommenced today in Beijing. More >>
