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Bradford blames National for benefit blow-out

Thursday, 29 July 2004, 12:31 am | Green Party

Green Party MP, Sue Bradford says National government policies of the 90s are coming home to roost, with increasing numbers of people citing mental health grounds in registering for the sickness or invalids benefit. More >>

NZ team adds to Afghan aid problem

Thursday, 29 July 2004, 12:30 am | Green Party

The Green Party is calling on the Government to reassess its involvement in military Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan, following the withdrawal of the Medicins Sans Frontieres aid group from the war-torn country. More >>

Coming to a river near you

Wednesday, 28 July 2004, 2:47 pm | Green Party

Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says New Zealanders who care about their local rivers should be alarmed by a new Government report that paves the way for many waterways to be locked up in power generation. More >>

Nandor to police: stop poisoning pot users

Wednesday, 28 July 2004, 10:45 am | Green Party

Green MP Nandor Tanczos said today that police were making a mockery of their duty to protect the public by poisoning outdoor-grown cannabis, which was still then available for distribution on the black market. More >>

Food Safety Apologist's response to corn 'woeful'

Tuesday, 27 July 2004, 4:49 pm | Green Party

Consumer confidence in the agency charged with protecting New Zealand's food supply is being undermined by the woefully inadequate response by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority to the importation of lead-contaminated corn, Green MP and Food Safety ... More >>

Hidden housing crisis coming out into the open

Tuesday, 27 July 2004, 1:49 pm | Green Party

Northland-based Green MP Sue Bradford says news today that families in the region are being forced to live in cars is bringing a hidden nationwide housing crisis out into the open. More >>

Bradford: Bash the system not the beneficiaries

Tuesday, 27 July 2004, 10:10 am | Green Party

The Green Party says beneficiaries are being unfairly victimized by politicians, when inadequacies in the health and welfare systems are really to blame for the rise in people claiming sickness and invalid’s benefits. More >>

Government responsible for Generation Debt

Monday, 26 July 2004, 5:04 pm | Green Party

Green MP Nandor Tanczos today accused successive governments of fostering a mentality of debt dependency in New Zealand through the use of the student loan scheme. More >>

Contaminated corn recall "nowhere near enough"

Monday, 26 July 2004, 2:37 pm | Green Party

Green MP Sue Kedgley today called on the New Zealand Food Safety Authority to release a list of every product with batch numbers that were produced using lead-contaminated cornflour imported from China. More >>

Flag burning law must be extinguished

Monday, 26 July 2004, 11:05 am | Green Party

Green MP Keith Locke is calling for the Government to repeal the flag protection law, following Friday’s overturning of an activist’s conviction for burning a New Zealand flag at a protest against Australian Prime Minister John Howard last year. More >>

Kedgley calls for lead-contaminated inquiry

Monday, 26 July 2004, 9:25 am | Green Party

Green MP Sue Kedgley is calling for an inquiry into why 45 tonnes of imported cornflour contaminated with more than 100 times the safe level of lead was allowed into our food supply and how the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) has handled the ... More >>

Greens welcome legal move over Kawakawa sewage

Thursday, 22 July 2004, 3:03 pm | Green Party

Northland-based Green MP Sue Bradford is welcoming the Northland Regional Council's decision to take the Far North District Council to task legally over the Kawakawa sewage scandal, although she says it is a case of better late than never. More >>

Pesticide contamination endemic in food supply

Thursday, 22 July 2004, 10:33 am | Green Party

The latest Total Diet Survey reveals that pesticide contamination is endemic in our food supply, despite the efforts by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority to convince us otherwise, Green MP Sue Kedgley said today. More >>

Taxpayers should not pay the price of GE stuff ups

Wednesday, 21 July 2004, 1:21 pm | Green Party

Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says New Zealand is now paying the price of the Government failing to heed her party's earlier calls to sort out who is liable for GE contamination. More >>

What about the press barons, Mr McCully?

Wednesday, 21 July 2004, 12:38 am | Green Party

Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald today hit back at yesterday's extraordinary tirade by National MP Murray McCully against unionised journalists, saying the real issue was the biased agenda of the foreign owners of the New Zealand media. More >>

National Bottle Bill Day tomorrow

Tuesday, 20 July 2004, 10:52 am | Green Party

Green Party Waste-free Spokesperson Mike Ward MP will tomorrow be hosting the Wellington events of National Bottle Bill Day. The nationwide schedule can be found below. More >>

Flood solutions slip-sliding away

Tuesday, 20 July 2004, 10:41 am | Green Party

The Green Party said today that the Government must take a stronger line to climate change factors and unsustainable land use to mitigate the effects of the catastrophic flooding and extreme weather events that will continue to plague New Zealand in the ... More >>