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MAF won't pay the bill for making teachers ill
Monday, 19 July 2004, 9:28 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley is calling on MAF to cough up and pay compensation to Fraser High School for the debt the school incurred covering sick leave for staff affected by the Asian Gypsy Moth spray programme over Hamilton late last year. More >>
Apple Growers Should Vote For 'Single Desk' Unity
Monday, 19 July 2004, 12:25 am | Green Party
Green MP Ian Ewen-Street says apple growers should seriously consider returning their industry to the single body marketing structure. More >>
National Bottle Bill Day events
Friday, 16 July 2004, 4:01 pm | Green Party
Green Party Waste-free Spokesperson Mike Ward MP will be hosting the Wellington events of National Bottle Bill Day. The nationwide schedule can be found below. More >>
Are our spooks looking the wrong way?
Friday, 16 July 2004, 3:14 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke is concerned that the New Zealand and Australian security agencies might be overlooking the threat from supposedly 'friendly' countries like Israel. More >>
Brash nostalgic for Muldoonism
Friday, 16 July 2004, 2:37 pm | Green Party
Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says Don Brash's support for the Dobson hydro scheme shows National wants to return to the days of Muldoonism by overriding the law. More >>
Court teaches ACT a lesson in democracy
Friday, 16 July 2004, 1:40 pm | Green Party
Green Party Co-leader, Rod Donald says he is delighted that the Court of Appeal has blocked the ACT Party's attempt to evict Donna Awatere Huata from Parliament. More >>
Cops get the message on cannabis: figures prove it
Friday, 16 July 2004, 12:46 am | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos said today that new government figures demonstrating a continued fall in convictions for minor cannabis offences shows that decriminalisation of cannabis is inevitable. More >>
Passport case shouldn't end with light sentences
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 7:15 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke says the light sentences handed down to two suspected Israeli agents should only be the beginning of government investigations into the matter. More >>
MAF hides truth about animal torture
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 2:44 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley has condemned MAF's release today of animal research statistics for 2003 as yet another exercise in PR spin designed to conceal the real truth about what happens to live animals used for scientific experiments. More >>
New air quality standards leave dioxin issue
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 12:55 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley says new environmental air quality standards announced today do not go nearly far enough and continue to allow industrial processes that pollute and contaminate the air we breathe. More >>
Govt must come clean on its RMA agenda: Greens
Wednesday, 14 July 2004, 11:34 am | Green Party
The Green Party is challenging the Government to come clean on its real agenda for the Resource Management Act (RMA), following today's call from environmentalists to scrap the current review of the Act. More >>
No more animal secrets - or no more public funding
Wednesday, 14 July 2004, 10:53 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley today called for taxpayer funding for animal experimentation to be cut off from public institutions that refuse to publicly account for their experiments on live animals, on the eve of the expected release of animal use statistics ... More >>
PPPs line private pockets with public money
Tuesday, 13 July 2004, 1:27 pm | Green Party
Green Co-Leader Rod Donald says those behind today's call for Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure development are thinking first and foremost about private profits, rather than the public good. More >>
Singapore makes the most of unequal 'partnership'
Tuesday, 13 July 2004, 10:45 am | Green Party
Green Co-leader, Rod Donald is calling on the New Zealand and Singapore governments to explain the benefits to this country of the free trade deal between the two. More >>
Brash locked in '1984' time-warp
Monday, 12 July 2004, 9:22 am | Green Party
An horrific vision of a racially and socially segregated police-state in which the lucky few shelter in their gated communities and increasing numbers of transgressors are incarcerated for ever in high-rise prisons is emerging as Dr Brash's vision for ... More >>
Greens look forward to working with Maori Party
Monday, 12 July 2004, 9:21 am | Green Party
The Green Party has congratulated Tariana Turia on her historic victory in the Te Tai Hauauru by-election and has signalled its willingness to work with the Maori Party. More >>
Alliance Party congratulates Tariana Turia
Monday, 12 July 2004, 12:23 am | Green Party
The Alliance Party congratulates Tariana Turia on her return to Parliament as co-leader of the new Maori Party. More >>
Govt guidance would guarantee our geek credentials
Monday, 12 July 2004, 12:22 am | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today called on the Government to follow its Australian counterpart in providing a simple, low-cost encouragement to the 'open source' computer industry. More >>
Save power, save money say Greens
Friday, 9 July 2004, 10:49 am | Green Party
The Green Party has welcomed the Government's decision to regulate fixed electricity charges and is urging consumers to take advantage of the new pricing structure by investing in better insulation and solar water heating. More >>
Packaging Accord puts off needed legislation
Friday, 9 July 2004, 9:59 am | Green Party
Green MP Mike Ward welcomes the Government's announcement this afternoon that it has approved the renewed Packaging Accord, but says the voluntary deal is simply putting off the day a compulsory regime is introduced. More >>
