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Buy and eat local produce this Christmas
Thursday, 23 December 2004, 11:04 am | Green Party
Green Party Buy Local and Christmas Issues Spokesperson Mike Ward is making a special plea to New Zealanders to up the Kiwi content of their Christmas dinner this year. More >>
Greens celebrate public access strategy
Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 4:08 pm | Green Party
Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is relieved the Government has seen the sense in her recent proposal for a new agency to define and further negotiate public access to and along waterways. More >>
Govt sentences millions of animals to misery
Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 11:31 am | Green Party
The Animal Welfare Codes released by the Government today have sentenced millions of chickens and pigs to lives of misery and pain, the Greens say. More >>
New minimum wage rise far too little - Bradford
Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 10:37 am | Green Party
While the Green Party has welcomed the Government’s announcement that minimum wages will rise to $9.50 an hour for adults and $7.60 an hour for 16 and 17-year-olds from March next year, Industrial Relations Spokesperson Sue Bradford says the new rates ... More >>
Greens Seek Foreign Algae Invasion Urgent Action
Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 4:20 pm | Green Party
Green Party Biosecurity Spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street is calling for Biosecurity New Zealand to step up its efforts to eradicate an invasive aquatic weed known as "rock snot" in North America. More >>
Government fudges response to "Corngate" inquiry
Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 1:58 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is deeply disappointed by the Government's lacklustre response to recommendations set down by the "Corngate" Select Committee inquiry. More >>
Kiwis should be sceptical Re: SIS terrorism claims
Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 10:34 am | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke is sceptical of Security Intelligence Service (SIS) claims that there are active supporters of terrorism in New Zealand. More >>
Nuked mangoes arrive in New Zealand
Monday, 20 December 2004, 11:30 am | Green Party
The Green Party has learned that the first container load of irradiated mangoes, zapped with the equivalent of three million chest x-rays, were air freighted to New Zealand over the weekend. More >>
Illegal logger active on Coromandel
Monday, 20 December 2004, 9:20 am | Green Party
Green Party Conservation Spokesperson Jeanette Fitzsimons is warning that the owner of LumberBank, the timber importer expelled from the New Zealand Timber Importers Association for illegally logging Papua New Guinea forests, is actively involved ... More >>
Protest against Howard's illegal zone
Friday, 17 December 2004, 3:39 pm | Green Party
Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke is calling for the Government to back Indonesia's protest against Australia's provocative proclamation of a 1000-mile maritime security zone. More >>
Don't forget pay rise for rest home nurses
Friday, 17 December 2004, 1:03 pm | Green Party
Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley has welcomed the $380 million national pay deal offered to nurses and midwives but she says the Government must be pressured to lift the wages of rest home nurses. More >>
Govt embarrassed by Bush’s award to SAS
Friday, 17 December 2004, 10:10 am | Green Party
The Government seems to be embarrassed by George Bush’s award to the New Zealand SAS, says Green MP Keith Locke. More >>
Complementary health response disappoints Kedgley
Friday, 17 December 2004, 9:33 am | Green Party
Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says Minister of Health Annette King’s response to recommendations from the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Complementary Medicine (MACCAH) is deeply disappointing. More >>
Environmental Legislation An Act For Developers
Friday, 17 December 2004, 12:02 am | Green Party
This Bill claims to be about improving the Resource Management Act. It is actually a fundamental change to the original purpose of the Act, which was protecting the environment and public participation in decision-making. Instead, we have vastly ... More >>
Goff goes soft on Aussie maritime meddling
Thursday, 16 December 2004, 6:12 pm | Green Party
Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff's attempt to justify the new 1000-nautical-mile Australian Maritime Interdiction Zone is unconvincing, the Green Party says. More >>
Public service ethos eroded by TVNZ board
Thursday, 16 December 2004, 4:19 pm | Green Party
Steve Maharey should be holding the TVNZ board accountable not just for doubling Judy Bailey's salary but also for undermining the state broadcaster's public service ethos and Charter, the Green Party says. More >>
Govt backs Green initiative on building societies
Thursday, 16 December 2004, 12:54 am | Green Party
The Labour - Progressive Government has supported a Green amendment to the Public Finance (State Sector Management) Bill that will allow Crown entities to bank with building societies. More >>
Govt must protest Howard's license to piracy
Thursday, 16 December 2004, 12:12 am | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke is calling on the Government to protest strongly against John Howard's proposed Maritime Identification Zone, which could legitimise piracy on the high seas. More >>
Tightened terrorism law could be misused
Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 5:15 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke is warning that proposed changes to terrorism law that extend the ban on financing to 'non-designated' terrorists and expand the definition of such funding could easily be misused by politicians. More >>
Bradford slams DHB's acute unit delay
Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 2:22 pm | Green Party
Green Mental Health Spokesperson Sue Bradford is appalled that the Wellington District Health Board has stalled on its commitment to go ahead with a purpose-built acute unit for people with mental illness. More >>
