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Australia loses initiative on whaling

Thursday, 19 January 2006, 4:14 pm | Green Party

Australia's government, which has led anti-whaling efforts at international level to stop whaling, has lost the initiative after its failure to set against the Japanese whaling fleet this summer, Greens Leader Bob Brown said today. More >>

West Papuans deserve respect not detention

Thursday, 19 January 2006, 4:13 pm | Green Party

Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today welcomed the news that the West Papuan asylum seekers boat has been found and called on the Government to grant these asylum seekers bridging visas instead of throwing them in detention for months, years or ... More >>

Australia: Treat West Papuans like East Timorese

Thursday, 19 January 2006, 3:49 pm | Green Party

Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today called on the Federal Government to treat the newly arrived West Papuan asylum seekers in the same way as the East Timorese who fled Indonesian repression in the 1990s by letting them live in the community, ... More >>

Australia: Tax breaks for overseas bribes must go

Thursday, 19 January 2006, 3:46 pm | Green Party

Tax breaks for so called 'facilitation' payments, given to overseas entities to smooth the way for business transactions, need to be outlawed, Greens Leader Bob Brown said today. More >>

Don't enforce bus, taxi law until mess sorted out

Thursday, 19 January 2006, 2:59 pm | Green Party

Land Transport New Zealand should hold off enforcing the sex offender section of the new passenger license law until the needed amendments are in place in a month or so, Green Party Associate Transport Spokesperson Keith Locke says. More >>

Maori fisheries money must not fund whaling

Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 9:20 am | Green Party

Te Ohu Kaimoana must guarantee New Zealanders that not one single cent of hard-won Maori fisheries money will be used to support or promote commercial whaling of any kind, the Green Party says. More >>

Aust. Govt. must tell the truth about Habib

Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 4:05 pm | Green Party

Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today called on the Federal Government to come clean with what they knew about Mamdouh Habib's whereabouts and treatment. More >>

Campbell's call to whaling protestors 'ludicrous'

Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 4:02 pm | Green Party

Environment Minister Ian Campbell's call for the activities of whaling protesters to avoid becoming 'not sensible' is ludicrous in light of the Minister's failure to do anything meaningful for the whales, Greens Senator Bob Brown said in Hobart ... More >>

Red paint used on Opera House 'No War' Protest

Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 3:57 pm | Green Party

Greens MP and justice spokesperson, Lee Rhiannon has called on Police Minister Carl Scully to step in and save the can of red paint that was used to paint 'No War' on the Opera House. More >>

Standards not comparing apples with apples

Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 3:54 pm | Green Party

If Food Standards Australia New Zealand want people to eat healthier diets implying that fruit is not healthy is crazy, Green Party says. More >>

Australia: AWB inquiry, Government complicity

Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 3:51 pm | Green Party

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert today renewed her call for investigation of the role of Government and Government agencies in the AWB scandal. More >>

Greenpeace actions: great Australia tradition

Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 3:47 pm | Green Party

Greens MLC Ian Cohen today congratulated Greenpeace for their courageous non-violent protest action in the Southern Ocean. More >>

Aust.: DIMIA's latest bungles will cost millions

Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 3:44 pm | Green Party

Reports that an Australian man who was wrongfully deported to Turkey three years ago after spending three years in prison is seeking $600,000 in compensation from the Government is a sign of more payouts to come, Australian Greens Senator Kerry ... More >>

Legality of whaling should be tested - Greens

Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 8:43 am | Green Party

Japan's insistence that its whale slaughter in Antarctic waters is above board is a matter of opinion and should be up to an international body to decide - not a group of people with a vested interest, the Green Party says. More >>

Is Waihopai spying on Japan's whalers?

Monday, 16 January 2006, 12:14 am | Green Party

How a spy report came to be released with David Lange's papers should not get in the way of a serious public debate over its contents, Green Party Security and Intelligence Spokesperson Keith Locke says. More >>

Booze ad review must target adults' attitudes too

Friday, 13 January 2006, 3:19 pm | Green Party

The Government's alcohol advertising review is a welcome move, but any attempt to change Kiwi drinking habits must be aimed at adults as well as young people, Green Party Associate Health Spokesperson Metiria Turei says. More >>

Greens warned of problem with licenses

Friday, 13 January 2006, 11:20 am | Green Party

The cases of bus and taxi drivers losing their licenses for long-past minor sexual offences is exactly what the Green Party warned would happen when the new land transport law was being debated last year, Associate Transport Spokesperson Keith Locke says. More >>