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Report exposes over-reliance on overseas nurses
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 4:07 pm | Green Party
Green MP, Sue Kedgley says it is shocking that New Zealand is now the most reliant country in the developed world on foreign-trained nurses. More >>
Indiscriminate use of animal antibiotics
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 4:01 pm | Green Party
A Food Safety Authority audit has found that no effective controls exist to rein in the widespread and indiscriminate feeding of antibiotics in the pork and poultry industries, Green MP Sue Kedgley said today. More >>
ECO's hard work threatened by Govt's RMA review
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 3:21 pm | Green Party
Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today congratulated ECO on the launch of their RMA community resource website but hopes the Government is not about to make all their hard work redundant. More >>
Internet call is an 'Open Source' opportunity
Wednesday, 4 August 2004, 2:17 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos is welcoming United Future's call for the Government to fund firewalls for school PCs, but says an Open Source product implemented locally would allow a more flexible approach to inappropriate online behaviour and ensure filtering ... More >>
Nandor rejects call to raise drinking age
Wednesday, 4 August 2004, 11:58 am | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos said today that once again young people were being made the scapegoat for the inadequacies of legislators in enforcing the drinking age. More >>
Govt must take responsibility for SOE’s poison
Wednesday, 4 August 2004, 8:41 am | Green Party
Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says Mark Burton’s answers to her parliamentary questions today on Solid Energy’s environmental record at the Stockton Mine don’t match with what she saw just a few days ago. More >>
Maori need not apply
Wednesday, 4 August 2004, 12:19 am | Green Party
Green MP Metiria Turei is warning that the public service is going to have a lot of vacancies to fill if it continues to insist on gagging Maori from speaking out about issues that vitally affect them. More >>
Greens help build healthy houses
Tuesday, 3 August 2004, 3:03 pm | Green Party
The health effects of building materials will have to be taken into account by the newly-formed buildings department, as a result of Green Party amendments to the Building Bill, which has its third reading in Parliament today [Tuesday]. More >>
Poverty trap deepens under Labour
Tuesday, 3 August 2004, 1:48 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Bradford said today that a recent report highlighting the health needs of beneficiaries' children once again confirms the Labour Government's unwillingness to address the problem that benefits that simply too low to live on. More >>
Greens want support for complementary healthcare
Tuesday, 3 August 2004, 9:52 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley is calling for complementary healthcare practitioners to be integrated into the health system, in line with the recommendations of a major report into complementary and alternative medicine in New Zealand. More >>
Fresh water before champagne
Monday, 2 August 2004, 5:07 pm | Green Party
The Green Party warned today that it is too early to buy the champagne - let alone put it on ice - following yesterday's agreement to a new draft declaration at the WTO meeting in Geneva. More >>
Irving decision is a blow for free speech - Locke
Monday, 2 August 2004, 1:21 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke has accused the Immigration Service of not upholding the right of free speech in its refusal to allow David Irving into the country. More >>
Nandor asks minister: "at what cost?"
Monday, 2 August 2004, 1:15 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today congratulated the Minister for Tertiary Education on his announcement that just over 10,000 students will be receiving fee reductions next year but questioned the real cost of that reduction. More >>
Pot clock strikes 100,000 convictions under Labour
Friday, 30 July 2004, 2:24 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos said today that the impending 100,000th conviction for cannabis offences under Labour is the price ordinary New Zealanders are paying for the Government's dependence on United Future. More >>
Conservation Week In A Year Of Environmental Peril
Friday, 30 July 2004, 2:20 pm | Green Party
On the eve of Conservation Week, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says both the conservation estate and New Zealand's wider environment are under unprecedented pressure and concerned Kiwis should mobilise to defend them. More >>
Greens Agree To Cast Turia's Vote
Friday, 30 July 2004, 2:01 pm | Green Party
The Green Party has agreed to Tariana Turia's request to cast her vote in Parliament when she is out of the House. More >>
Unfair trade talks doomed to fail
Friday, 30 July 2004, 12:07 am | Green Party
The Green Party says it is inevitable that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Geneva will break down again unless industrialised countries unconditionally end their export and domestic production subsidies. More >>
Contaminated Cargo Ship Raises Fresh Concerns
Friday, 30 July 2004, 12:05 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley said today that the identification of the likely source of lead-poisoning in a shipment of corn from China has been a positive development, but it exposed further serious questions over the safety of our food imports. More >>
Green MP in ambulance ride for better conditions
Thursday, 29 July 2004, 4:41 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley will be riding through Wellington tomorrow in an ambulance to experience first hand the inadequacies of our emergency medical services. More >>
Minister downplaying a real threat to NZ rivers
Thursday, 29 July 2004, 12:37 am | Green Party
Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says she wishes she could agree with the Energy Minister's assertion that her fears for New Zealand's rivers are groundless but the evidence is in his Government's hydro report. More >>
