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Advisory: Greens step up fight to save schools
Friday, 27 February 2004, 5:37 pm | Green Party
Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald will be visiting Timaru schools this Monday, 1 March, at the request of parents and principals following Trevor Mallard's determination to press on with South Canterbury school closures despite his moratorium on further ... More >>
Schools urged to kick the caffeine habit
Friday, 27 February 2004, 3:26 pm | Green Party
Schools are no place for strung-out caffeinated kids said Green MP Sue Kedgley today, as she called on the Ministries of Health and Education to take the lead in keeping highly-caffeinated soft drinks out of schools. More >>
Is NZ inadvertently spying on the UN?
Friday, 27 February 2004, 2:19 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke wants Helen Clark, as Minister in Charge of the SIS, to reassure New Zealand that we have not been inadvertently helping Britain or the US to spy on the United Nations. More >>
Matt Robson hosts Friday Fono on 531PI
Thursday, 26 February 2004, 5:59 pm | Green Party
Progressive MP Matt Robson will host Friday Fono on Radio 531pi midday till 2pm, starting tomorrow. More >>
Lie in unison issue only the tip of Zaoui iceberg
Thursday, 26 February 2004, 5:59 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke says the culture of secrecy revealed by the Ombudsman's report into the 'lie in unison' affair in the Immigration Service is an inherent feature of the entire Zaoui debacle. More >>
Council censors anti-bypass campaigners
Thursday, 26 February 2004, 4:59 pm | Green Party
Wellington Green MP, Sue Kedgley is appalled that the Wellington City Council is effectively suppressing political dissent by banning the distribution of material about the "Bypass" at this weekend's Cuba Carnival. More >>
Greens tell Govt: 'Don't Panic, Helen!'
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 3:57 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is encouraging the Government to ignore the current frenzy of poll-driven hysteria over racial issues, and to hold fast to policies based on social justice and honouring the Treaty. More >>
Watch for bikes, says Mike
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 2:29 pm | Green Party
Green MP Mike Ward has called on traffic planners, government agencies and police to adopt a much sharper focus on cycle safety and motorists' awareness and attitudes toward cyclists. More >>
Greens Why expose endangered dolphins to suffering
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 9:40 am | Green Party
The Green Party is appealing to Conservation Minister Chris Carter to back off plans to tag endangered Hectors dolphins with satellite tracking devices, saying the weight of evidence is clearly against the move, and that there are safer, more effective ... More >>
Greens In Black For Betancourt
Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 1:23 pm | Green Party
Green women MPs will wear black in parliament today in solidarity with global Greens to mark the second anniversary of Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt's kidnapping by FARC guerrillas. More >>
Bill will breach women's privacy, warn Greens
Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 11:23 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley is warning that doctor-patient confidentiality will be a thing of the past if Parliament changes the rules governing the records of women enrolled on the National Cervical Screening Programme (NCSP) later today. More >>
Karauria resignation unfortunate: Nandor
Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 9:35 am | Green Party
Green Justice spokesperson Nandor Tanczos said today that the resignation of Dom Karauria as General Manager of the Auckland Central Remand Prison was a loss for the institution. More >>
Greens praise moratorium call on Govt to extend it
Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 9:10 am | Green Party
The Green Party is backing the Government's decision to hold a five-year moratorium on all new school reviews, but is calling on it to go further and stop current reviews and reconsider the 67 proposed closures already announced. More >>
Greens support call to bring Sri Lanka girl back
Monday, 23 February 2004, 5:08 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke says the government should show some compassion and allow the Sri Lankan girl deported last week back into New Zealand. The Green Spokesperson on Human Rights is supporting the deported 16-year-old's lawyers as they make an ... More >>
Fifty Cents Won't Go Far, Says Bradford
Monday, 23 February 2004, 4:06 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is welcoming a rise in the minimum wage but questioning why the increase is so small. More >>
New Minister can right past wrongs
Monday, 23 February 2004, 9:34 am | Green Party
The Green Party is calling for the incoming Immigration Minister to take a fresh look at the country's two most contentious refugee cases. More >>
Don't sanitise our history, warns Metiria
Friday, 20 February 2004, 2:32 pm | Green Party
Green MP Metiria Turei said today that she hoped the delay in launching a Treaty of Waitangi education website was not an attempt to sanitise New Zealand history. More >>
Time to eradicate sexism in police force
Friday, 20 February 2004, 2:32 pm | Green Party
The announcement of wide-ranging terms of reference into the allegations of police rape provides a long overdue opportunity to eradicate sexism in the police force, Green MPs Keith Locke and Sue Kedgley said today. More >>
Strategy urgently needed for Superbug outbreak
Friday, 20 February 2004, 11:39 am | Green Party
The outbreak of a superbug that has affected 120 people in Dunedin is extremely serious and is a warning that antibiotic resistant bacteria are spreading rapidly in New Zealand, Green Health spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today. More >>
Govt. king hit on Zaoui turns out to be damp squib
Friday, 20 February 2004, 12:40 am | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke says the SIS case against Ahmed Zaoui is as shaky as he has always thought. More >>
