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Kedgley calls for health-check on our hospitals

Thursday, 6 May 2004, 11:08 am | Green Party

Green MP Sue Kedgley is calling for the urgent establishment of a national surveillance system to alert the public and health experts to the rate of superbugs and other infections being picked-up in the country's hospitals. More >>

Brash's backroom deal would sink nuclear-free NZ

Thursday, 6 May 2004, 8:26 am | Green Party

The Green Party says the Creech Report is a thinly disguised proposal to give the government of the day the sole power to allow nuclear-propelled ships into our ports. More >>

Price rise an ill omen for cheap oil addiction

Thursday, 6 May 2004, 12:11 am | Green Party

Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is warning that rising petrol prices are "the shape of things to come" and that tough policy decisions need to be made now if New Zealand is to adjust peacefully to the imminent end of cheap oil. More >>

Speech by Green Party Maori Affairs Spokesperson

Wednesday, 5 May 2004, 4:00 pm | Green Party

Speech by Green Party Maori Affairs Spokesperson, Metiria Turei in General Debate More >>

Green MPs To Greet Hikoi At Parliament

Tuesday, 4 May 2004, 4:58 pm | Green Party

Green Party MPs will greet the hikoi against the Government's foreshore and seabed legislation at Parliament tomorrow [Wednesday], after walking in the last stage of the journey through Wellington. More >>

Greens won't contest unnecessary by-election

Tuesday, 4 May 2004, 1:50 pm | Green Party

The Green Party will not run a candidate in the Te Tai Hauauru by-election, Co-leaders Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald announced today. More >>

Mouthspray delay means arrest excuse doesn't wash

Tuesday, 4 May 2004, 1:16 pm | Green Party

Green MP Nandor Tanczos today renewed his call for 'medical marijuana' arrests to be stopped following delays in the commercial release of a medicine based on a cannabis extract. More >>

Donald to accept living allowance petition

Monday, 3 May 2004, 5:14 pm | Green Party

Student leaders from tertiary institutions and high schools will present MPs tomorrow (Tuesday) with a 30,000-strong petition calling on the Government to introduce a universal tertiary living allowance. More >>

Bypass A Victory For Spin And Closed Minds, Greens

Monday, 3 May 2004, 4:20 pm | Green Party

The Green Party says today's decision by Transfund to approve funding for Wellington's Inner City Bypass project is a victory for minds set in concrete. More >>

No by-election if party hopping law repealed

Monday, 3 May 2004, 8:49 am | Green Party

The Green Party is calling on the Labour Government to repeal the Electoral Integrity Act and is offering its nine votes to do it under urgency before May 17th, thereby saving the country the cost of an expensive and unnecessary by-election. More >>

Greens want RMA amended to protect all rivers

Monday, 3 May 2004, 8:48 am | Green Party

Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says fresh water is now as precious as "clear gold" and has begun a campaign to get the vital resource properly managed before further conflict arises. More >>

Greens release Transfund letter & bypass analysis

Monday, 3 May 2004, 8:47 am | Green Party

The Green Party is making public its analysis of Transit's application and supporting documentation seeking funding for Wellington's Inner City Bypass. More >>

CoLeader in Hawkes Bay to speak on life after Aqua

Friday, 30 April 2004, 5:34 pm | Green Party

30 April 2004 Media Advisory Green Co-Leader in Hawkes Bay to speak on life after Aqua More >>

Greens: Government can't hold back the tide

Friday, 30 April 2004, 4:08 pm | Green Party

The impending resignation of Associate Maori Affairs Minister Tariana Turia confirms how deeply Maori feel about the sea and the proposed confiscation of their legal rights to due process in court, the Green Party said today. More >>

Greens welcome consultation on appointment

Friday, 30 April 2004, 10:47 am | Green Party

Green Co-Leader Rod Donald is welcoming public consultation on judicial appointments and says the move is a result of considerable discussion between the Greens and the Government that began at the time of last year's Supreme Court legislation. More >>

Jeanette to welcome triking Mike

Thursday, 29 April 2004, 3:07 pm | Green Party

Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons will be in Nelson tomorrow to welcome her fellow MP Mike Ward home from his trike tour of the South Island. More >>

Wgtn Bypass A Threat To Communities Throughout NZ

Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 4:40 pm | Green Party

Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is writing to the Chair of Transfund to point out the "woeful inadequacies" of Transit NZ's application to build Wellington's innercity bypass. She warns that if the project proceeds on the basis of Transit's ... More >>