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Govt's bird flu prep should be sped up
Monday, 22 August 2005, 11:58 am | Green Party
The Green Party today repeated its call for the Government to speed up its preparations for a potential bird flu pandemic and, in particular, to ready GPs and the rest of the primary healthcare sector. More >>
Fitzsimons in Dunedin to launch Peak Oil plan
Friday, 19 August 2005, 5:18 pm | Green Party
Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons will be in Dunedin on Monday to publicly launch the Party's plan to prepare for 'Peak Oil', the end of cheap oil. More >>
PM hears Green call on Waitangirua and Whareroa
Friday, 19 August 2005, 3:50 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is delighted the Government has decided to stop the sale of the Waitangirua and Whareroa Farm Parks on the Kapiti Coast into private, possibly foreign, ownership. More >>
New Zealand for New Zealanders
Friday, 19 August 2005, 11:50 am | Green Party
New Zealand should be a country for Kiwis, including new migrants, not foreign investors who hardly ever set foot on our soil, the Green Party said today in launching its foreign investment policy. More >>
Co-Leaders launch Dunedin campaign this weekend
Friday, 19 August 2005, 11:23 am | Green Party
The Dunedin Green Party's 2005 election campaign will be officially launched this weekend, with the arrival of both of the Party Co-Leaders over the next four days. More >>
Explanation sought for animal experiments
Thursday, 18 August 2005, 5:09 pm | Green Party
The Minister of Agriculture must explain to New Zealanders why scientists secretly experimented on 246,000 animals last year, including genetically engineering 7922 animals, Green Party Animal Welfare Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says. More >>
Great for mid-income Kiwis; what about the rest?
Thursday, 18 August 2005, 1:00 pm | Green Party
Labour's new tax relief package is great news for the 60,000 families who will benefit from it, but many Kiwi kids from low-income families will still miss out, the Green Party says. More >>
Plastic bag-free Collingwood is brilliant
Thursday, 18 August 2005, 11:17 am | Green Party
Collingwood's plastic bag-free declaration is absolutely brilliant, Parliament's waste-free campaigner Green MP Mike Ward says. More >>
Aussie anti-war hero to tour NZ
Thursday, 18 August 2005, 10:15 am | Green Party
Andrew Wilkie, the Australian intelligence analyst who blew the whistle on the John Howard Government's dishonest justification of the Iraq War, will undertake a speaking tour of New Zealand next week. More >>
Smear campaign launched against Green Co-Leader
Thursday, 18 August 2005, 9:27 am | Green Party
In a last ditch vote-grabbing attempt the Act Party has launched a smear camping against Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons. More >>
Greens mourn noted conservationist
Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 4:33 pm | Green Party
Kevin Smith will be missed by the entire conservation movement and the Green Party, Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says. More >>
Pull mental health out of the 'too-hard basket'
Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 2:29 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is urging the Government to pull mental health out of the "too-hard basket". More >>
Greens launch Fair Trade Policy
Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 10:58 am | Green Party
The Greens are launching their fair trade policy this morning, promising to oppose all free-trade deals with countries that don't respect and uphold human rights, and strongly promote a Buy New Zealand-made campaign. More >>
Don't smoke pot and drive: Nandor
Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 8:30 am | Green Party
The Greens are today repeating their call for the use of cannabis when driving or operating machinery to be banned. More >>
Carless days not the solution to Peak Oil problem
Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 4:42 pm | Green Party
Proposals made public today for responding to a sudden oil crisis are not the mechanisms for dealing with the end of cheap oil, Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says. More >>
Free school breakfasts an investment in learning
Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 1:26 pm | Green Party
The Greens support today's call from the Child Poverty Action Group for all decile one and two schools to be funded to provide their children with free breakfasts, Education Spokesperson Metiria Turei says. More >>
Govt must shift health focus to prevention
Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 1:17 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is welcoming Labour's commitment to fund more cataract, knee and hip operations, but says it's time the Government got serious about health prevention as well as diagnosis and treatment. More >>
Majority want NZ to stay GE-Free; does National?
Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 11:14 am | Green Party
The three out of four voters who want New Zealand's food production to remain GE-Free deserve to know where all political parties, particularly National, stand on the GE issue, Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says. More >>
Mental Health at Wellington Hospital a disgrace
Monday, 15 August 2005, 2:00 pm | Green Party
Reports that the acute psychiatric unit in Wellington were so full last week police had problems getting a place for a man arrested walking down the street brandishing hunting knives, have left the Green Party's Mental Health Issues Spokesperson Sue ... More >>
Children may be at risk from additives in food
Monday, 15 August 2005, 1:45 pm | Green Party
Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley is calling on the New Zealand Food Safety Authority to urgently test New Zealand food to make sure children are not eating more chemical additives, such as preservatives, than is safe for them. More >>
