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Thais urge NZ: please don’t trade with sweatshops
Tuesday, 7 September 2004, 10:38 am | Green Party
Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald is hosting two Thai campaigners against the so-called ‘free trade’ agreement currently being negotiated between the governments of Thailand and New Zealand. More >>
Tell The Truth On Trade, Mr Sutton
Monday, 6 September 2004, 2:21 pm | Green Party
Green Co-Leader Rod Donald has accused Trade Minister Jim Sutton of hiding the truth about New Zealand's trade with ASEAN countries*. More >>
Greens encourage govt to warm to solar energy
Monday, 6 September 2004, 9:12 am | Green Party
The Green Party has congratulated the Government on its plan to make solar water heating compulsory on new homes but says more must be done to bring the price down first. More >>
‘Save our hospital’ message taken to Whangarei
Monday, 6 September 2004, 9:04 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Bradford will be joining a protest in Whangarei tomorrow (Monday 6th September) to ask for the restoration of 24-hour surgical cover to Kaitaia Hospital. More >>
Annette King and Willie Munchright - Clarification
Friday, 3 September 2004, 2:07 pm | Green Party
The Healthy Eating Campaign, with Willie Munchright as its centrepiece, is being promoted by the food industry as a key plank in its Industry Accord at the launch of the New Zealand Food Industry Accord. More >>
Brutal mistreatment of prisoners cannot be ignored
Friday, 3 September 2004, 9:55 am | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke says threats by the Justice Minister to appeal compensation awarded to five prisoners for severe mistreatment send the message that prisoners have no human rights and ‘deserve’ whatever brutality they encounter in jail. More >>
GE corn rat-feeding data must be publicly released
Friday, 3 September 2004, 12:53 am | Green Party
The Green Party today said FSANZ must demand, reanalyse and publicly release the raw data of Monsanto's controversial MON863 rat-feeding study and wants a full explanation as to why the company withheld the study when it was seeking approval for the GE ... More >>
Burger barons hijack obesity campaign
Friday, 3 September 2004, 12:51 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley today revealed that the cartoon character handpicked to front Annette King's healthy eating campaign is a McDonald's marketing icon. More >>
GE corn that caused rat abnormalities approved
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 2:31 pm | Green Party
The Greens today revealed that a genetically engineered corn variety approved for human food in New Zealand was refused approval by a French scientific committee because of a study showing rats fed with it developed several abnormalities (see attached ... More >>
Ten point action plan launched for obesity accord
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 12:04 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley is challenging the food industry to implement a 10 point voluntary action plan she has drawn up to reduce obesity in New Zealand, to demonstrate that it is serious about reducing obesity in New Zealand. More >>
Unique sea world at mercy of fishing industry
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 5:22 pm | Green Party
The future of ancient coral forests and seamounts in international waters appears unlikely to get much help from New Zealand, following the Fisheries Minister's refusal to back a temporary moratorium for bottom trawling on the high seas, Green Party ... More >>
Spy-watchers neglect their duties
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 4:22 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke has revealed that the high-powered Parliamentary committee charged with monitoring the country's intelligence services has met for a total of just three and a half hours over the past two years. More >>
What’s Chinese for ‘Yes, sir’?
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 10:18 am | Green Party
Green Party Co-leader, Rod Donald says that Labour’s back down on inviting a senior Taiwanese minister to New Zealand exposes its fawning foreign policy towards China. More >>
Human rights report criticises social exclusion
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 12:35 am | Green Party
Green MPs Keith Locke and Sue Bradford have endorsed the Human Rights Commission's Summary Report and its criticism of the marginalisation of minority groups and general social exclusion in New Zealand. More >>
Waste action globally, refilling bottles locally
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 12:26 am | Green Party
Green MP Mike Ward is marking the Third Global Day of Action Against Waste today with a call for wine bottles to be refilled, rather than being recycled or, even worse, thrown away. More >>
Robson's Cloudy Cannabis Vision Strikes Again
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 6:12 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today accused Matt Robson of gross irresponsibility for misrepresenting the views of the Hawke's Bay Clinical Director of Mental Health, Dr Anne Walsh, following a presentation by her on cannabis issues in the Hawke's Bay. More >>
Greens Secure Govt Commitment To Kahawai Fishery
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 6:09 pm | Green Party
The Green Party has obtained a written commitment from the Minister of Fisheries today that catch limits for the kahawai fishery will be reviewed over the next year. He has further committed to substantial funding for collection of data on the state ... More >>
Govt succumbs to Aussie pressure on citizenship
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 2:15 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke said today that the Government's decision to cancel automatic citizenship for babies born in New Zealand is a capitulation to Australian pressure. More >>
Greens to protect workers' rights in law changes
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 2:12 pm | Green Party
The Green Party said today that it would support the Holidays Amendment Bill, announced today by Labour Minister Paul Swain, proceeding to the select committee, but warned that changes and assurances would need to be adopted by the Government for Green ... More >>
Govt urged to reject 'barbaric' battery hen code
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 2:10 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley today urged Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton to reject a draft layer hen code that recommends that New Zealand producers be allowed to keep raising hens in cages indefinitely. More >>
