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Sue Bradford Speech To EPMU National Conference
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 3:44 pm | Green Party
Thank you for inviting me to address your conference today. Thank you also for asking me to address your Engineering and Plastics sector group meetings over the last few months. After somewhat frosty relations between the Greens and the EPMU when we were ... More >>
Bible gives no mandate for beating children
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 2:13 pm | Green Party
Campaigners against the proposed changes to section 59 of the Crimes Act are distorting the Bible to justify a regime of corporal punishment that puts children at risk of abuse, Green Party Social Development Spokesperson Sue Bradford says. More >>
Green Party is champion of manufacturing: Bradford
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 2:11 pm | Green Party
One of the ironies of politics is that Green Party, long portrayed by its detractors as the backward looking anti-industrialisation party, has now become the only party in the New Zealand Parliament to consistently champion the manufacturing sector, ... More >>
Noise test good - now tackle emissions
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 5:18 pm | Green Party
The Government is failing to test the emissions created by our dirty, ageing fleet of cars, and thus ignoring the major economic, health and environmental benefits that New Zealand stands to gain from a proper testing regime, Green Party Co-Leader ... More >>
Government Shouldn't Ignore War Crimes In Lebanon
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 2:32 pm | Green Party
Prime Minister Helen Clark and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters should be more forthright in their comments on the crisis in Lebanon, Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke says. More >>
Govt should heed local govt free trade warning
Monday, 17 July 2006, 3:44 pm | Green Party
The Government should heed the warning, given by one of the keynote speakers at the Local Government New Zealand conference today, that free trade negotiations can undermine local government democracy, the Green Party says. “Dr. Mildred Warner, Professor ... More >>
CPI figures show need for alternatives to oil
Monday, 17 July 2006, 1:19 pm | Green Party
The release of figures today showing an annual 4% rise in the Consumers Price Index to the end of June 2006 shows once again that the Government needs to invest in alternatives to oil to futureproof the New Zealand economy, say the Greens. More >>
Labour shouldn't take worker vote for granted
Monday, 17 July 2006, 1:11 pm | Green Party
"Labour should not take the support and votes of workers for granted," Sue Bradford, Green Party Industrial Relations spokesperson says. She was replying to today's statement by Labour M.P. and former trade unionist Darien Fenton that there was "no contest" ... More >>
Marsden B ruling shows urgent need for Bill
Monday, 17 July 2006, 9:10 am | Green Party
An Environment Court decision that quashes Greenpeace's appeal against the polluting coal-fired Marsden B power plant highlights the need for the adoption of the Green Party's Resource Management (Climate Protection) Amendment Bill, Co-Leader Jeanette ... More >>
Cullen's roading spend-up resoundingly rejected
Monday, 17 July 2006, 9:09 am | Green Party
The Government's massive $1.5 billion Budget spend-up on roading has been dealt a major rebuke in a Consumerlink survey released today by the Green Party, with 75 percent of respondents saying that at least half of the money should have been spent ... More >>
Government must investigate phosphate shipments
Sunday, 16 July 2006, 1:40 pm | Green Party
New Zealand will risk its reputation as nation that abides by international law if it allows a newly arrived shipment of phosphate, apparently from Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, to be used in this country without investigating its origins, the ... More >>
Auckland gives low priority response to dog chips
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 4:35 pm | Green Party
The Green Party today welcomed today's decision by the Auckland City Council's Planning and Regulatory Committee to assign a low priority to implementing the dog micro-chipping law. More >>
Waste Bill not wanting for support
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 3:47 pm | Green Party
On the last day of his 'Zero Waste Heroes' tour, Green Party Waste Spokesperson Nandor Tanczos is welcoming the widespread support and productive discussion of his Waste Minimisation (Solids) Bill he encountered during the two-week tour. More >>
Moving our whole economy towards sustainability
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 1:31 pm | Green Party
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Morgan Williams' excellent report on changing our behaviour when it comes to waste has provided us with another opportunity to look at ways of bringing about the ecological transformation of the economy, Green ... More >>
Use markets to move economy to sustainability
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 12:57 am | Green Party
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Morgan Williams' excellent report on changing our behaviour when it comes to waste has provided us with another opportunity to look at ways of bringing about the ecological transformation of the economy, Green ... More >>
Honey, there's no love in that decision
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 3:26 pm | Green Party
New Zealand's struggling bee industry should rightly feel betrayed by the Labour Government after a decision to allow Australian honey, potentially carrying a bee disease, into the country, the Green Party says. More >>
Rayed Ali still in Saudi jail
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 1:03 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke has written to the Saudi government expressing his concern over the ongoing imprisonment of Rayed Ali, six weeks after he was deported from New Zealand on May 30 for formerly being associated with a September 11 terrorist. More >>
Govt is systematically leaving the poor behind
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 10:28 am | Green Party
The Living Standards report is a powerful indictment of Government policies that continue to discriminate against beneficiary families, Green Party Social Development Spokesperson Sue Bradford says. More >>
Minister should withdraw Certificate against Zaoui
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 2:08 pm | Green Party
Given the most recent Security Intelligence Service failures, the Minister of Immigration David Cunliffe should now withdraw the risk security certificate issued over three years ago against Ahmed Zaoui, the Green Party Intelligence Services Spokesperson ... More >>
Major public support for medicinal cannabis
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 11:23 am | Green Party
The result of a 3News TNS poll showing that 63 percent of New Zealanders would support a law change allowing doctors to prescribe cannabis as a painkiller is being welcomed by Green Party Alcohol and Drugs Spokesperson Metiria Turei. More >>
