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Zaoui decision should stop deportation: Locke
Tuesday, 21 June 2005, 12:35 am | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke is welcoming the Supreme Court's latest decision in the Zaoui case, saying the important due process considerations ordered will make it difficult for Mr Zaoui to be deported back to possible torture and death in Algeria. More >>
Many better ways to wrap your baby's bottom: Ward
Monday, 20 June 2005, 5:11 pm | Green Party
Parents have many convenient and easy options for wrapping up their babies' bottoms, but clever corporate marketing has led to disposable nappies taking over, says Green MP Mike Ward. More >>
RMA Bill blunted, still bad news for environment
Monday, 20 June 2005, 4:28 pm | Green Party
Many of the worst features of a Bill that aims to undermine the RMA have been removed by the Select Committee, but the Greens still oppose it because local communities are still going to be severely disempowered. More >>
Govt should heed Zimbabwean plea to cancel tour
Monday, 20 June 2005, 9:05 am | Green Party
Prime Minister Helen Clark should heed calls from the Zimbabwean pro-democracy movement to take firm action to stop the Black Caps tour of Zimbabwe, Green Co-Leader Rod Donald says. More >>
Greens launch Kaikoura save-the-whales petition
Monday, 20 June 2005, 9:04 am | Green Party
Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is applauding a petition launched in Kaikoura last week opposing Japanese Government plans to expand its slaughter of whales, which will hurt the town's whale-watching industry. More >>
Protect and encourage breastfeeding: Kedgley
Friday, 17 June 2005, 11:55 am | Green Party
Too few New Zealand women are breastfeeding and more needs to be done to halt its worrying decline, says the Green Party. More >>
Drug Amendment Bill step to evidence-based regime
Friday, 17 June 2005, 8:35 am | Green Party
The Greens are welcoming the passing today of the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) No. 3 Bill. More >>
Kyoto: trend is not destiny
Thursday, 16 June 2005, 4:29 pm | Green Party
New Zealand's carbon emissions between 2008 and 2012 are not set in concrete, says Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons. More >>
PM must challenge Musharraf over torture
Thursday, 16 June 2005, 2:22 pm | Green Party
The Prime Minister should challenge Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf over torture, honour killings, and disdain for democracy when she meets him tomorrow. More >>
School support staff review long overdue
Wednesday, 15 June 2005, 3:57 pm | Green Party
The Greens are supporting the New Zealand Education Institute's Support Staff petition, which was delivered to Parliament today. More >>
Public access step one: enforce the law!
Wednesday, 15 June 2005, 2:15 pm | Green Party
Resolving existing conflicts over 'paper roads' would address many local land access issues and minimise the number of new disagreements likely to spring from the Government's wider review, says Jeanette Fitzsimons. More >>
Kelly should front up to ethnic communities
Wednesday, 15 June 2005, 9:12 am | Green Party
Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff should recall High Commissioner Graham Kelly and require him to front up to the communities he has abused, Green Ethnic Affairs Spokesperson Metiria Turei says. More >>
Levy would extend life and widen usage of PCs
Tuesday, 14 June 2005, 4:46 pm | Green Party
Green Party Waste-free Spokesperson Mike Ward is calling for a deposit on new computers to stem the flow of 'e-waste'. More >>
PM should step out of the way of Nanaia's Bill
Tuesday, 14 June 2005, 1:57 pm | Green Party
The Prime Minister should not stand in the way of a Labour MP's bill that would allow Maori to apply for legal aid for customary rights claims on the foreshore and seabed, says the Greens' Maori Issues Spokesperson Metiria Turei. More >>
Greens call NZers to boycott bottom trawled fish
Tuesday, 14 June 2005, 10:37 am | Green Party
The Green Party is calling for New Zealanders to boycott orange roughy and deep-sea dory (oreo) as a protest at the clear-felling of undersea forests by bottom trawler fishing. More >>
Clark's support for Bill welcome
Monday, 13 June 2005, 11:50 am | Green Party
Prime Minister Helen Clark's public support for the repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes Act has been welcomed by Green MP Sue Bradford. More >>
Plunket endorsement of Section 59 bill welcomed
Monday, 13 June 2005, 9:44 am | Green Party
Green Party Children's Issues Spokeswoman Sue Bradford has applauded Plunket's decision today to get behind her campaign to repeal Section 59 of the Crimes Act. More >>
A Green world where extinction is an outdated term
Monday, 13 June 2005, 9:12 am | Green Party
The Green Party's Conservation Policy envisions a New Zealand where extinction is a word of the past, endangered plants and animals are restored to healthy numbers, and more of the land and sea are protected. The Policy, launched by Green Party Co-Leader ... More >>
Time to stop the mobile rip off: Kedgley
Friday, 10 June 2005, 11:16 am | Green Party
The Green Party is backing the Telecommunications Commissioner's call that he be given the power to rein in the price of calling a mobile phone from a landline. More >>
United hypocritical and ill-informed on drugs
Thursday, 9 June 2005, 4:32 pm | Green Party
Green Party Drug Law Reform Spokesperson Nandor Tanczos said United's drugs policy, released today, exposed the party's ill-informed thinking in this area. More >>
