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A Brash approach to race relations
Tuesday, 27 January 2004, 8:31 pm | Green Party
Green Party Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says that even people who had legitimate concerns about claims to the foreshore and seabed would feel sick at the dangerous path of racial division being promulgated tonight [Tuesday] by the National Party ... More >>
Greens urge Government to take more asylum seekers
Tuesday, 27 January 2004, 10:50 am | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke has welcomed the government's decision to take another group of the asylum seekers presently interred on Nauru but is challenging New Zealanders to open their hearts to more. More >>
Rod Donald to visit threatened Sth Cant. schools
Monday, 26 January 2004, 4:07 pm | Green Party
Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald will visit six schools in South Canterbury tomorrow (Tuesday, January 27) that Education Minister Trevor Mallard is threatening to close. More >>
Greens want waste-free New Zealand
Monday, 26 January 2004, 1:55 pm | Green Party
The Green Party sees a waste-free society as essential to New Zealand's future well being and will push for product durability standards, package reuse and an end to landfills to achieve it. More >>
Algerian ambassador no-show confirms suspicions
Monday, 26 January 2004, 1:55 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke said today that the abrupt cancellation of the Algerian ambassador's visit to New Zealand raised doubts over the real purpose of his visit. More >>
New Zealand could fall victim to bird flu
Monday, 26 January 2004, 1:53 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley said today that the deadly bird flu virus sweeping through South East Asia should be a warning of the significant health risks of rearing birds in unsustainable, over-crowded and unhygienic conditions. More >>
Greens endorse foreshore stand
Monday, 26 January 2004, 9:21 am | Green Party
The Green position on the Foreshore and Seabed has been endorsed at the party's annual policy conference in Dunedin today (Sunday). More >>
Govt must resist Algerian attempt to get Zaoui
Monday, 26 January 2004, 9:20 am | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke is urging the government to resist Algerian pressure to deport Ahmed Zaoui when ambassador Soufiane Mimouni visits early next month. More >>
Government spinning dead men in their graves
Friday, 23 January 2004, 10:56 am | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke accused the government of spinning its failure to realise it had named a dead man on its list of 20 alleged terrorists released yesterday. More >>
Government's 'terror list' includes dead man
Thursday, 22 January 2004, 5:12 pm | Green Party
The Green Party has accused the government of gross incompetence for today issuing a list of suspected terrorists which includes at least one high profile terrorist suspect who was killed last October. More >>
'Drugged driver' study meaningless and risky
Thursday, 22 January 2004, 5:11 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos said today that plans by police to trial driver drug-testing were both ill-conceived and unworkable. More >>
Greens ask Minister to sort-out Aqua muddle
Thursday, 22 January 2004, 2:42 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on the Minister for the Environment to untangle the confusion surrounding the back-to-front submission process on Project Aqua. More >>
Greens oppose Goff's jury changes
Thursday, 22 January 2004, 2:24 pm | Green Party
Proposed changes to the jury system are a cost-cutting measure that would do little to enhance real justice, Green MP Nandor Tanczos said today. More >>
Moth paints picture of perpetual MAF failure
Wednesday, 21 January 2004, 2:13 pm | Green Party
Green MP Ian Ewen-Street said today that the discovery of another Painted Apple Moth (PAM) - this time in the Auckland suburb of Mt Eden - could have been averted many years ago if MAF had not completely mismanaged the situation. More >>
Greens ask for power-price explanation
Wednesday, 21 January 2004, 12:34 am | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on the Government to fully explain to the public the reasons behind recent power-price hikes of up to 15 per cent. More >>
Aid for Niue - but none for Ngahere, Ngawi...
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 3:31 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is congratulating the Government on putting together an aid package to keep Niue functioning as a viable community but wants to know why it isn't doing the same for small-town New Zealand. More >>
Spy report tells us nothing, says Locke
Friday, 16 January 2004, 3:36 pm | Green Party
The Green Party has attacked the Annual Report of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), tabled today, as completely vacuous and a total failure in public accountability. More >>
Greens urge methamphetamine inquiry
Friday, 16 January 2004, 1:08 pm | Green Party
The Green Party has called for a parliamentary inquiry into the most effective ways to reduce methamphetamine abuse, following the release of a report that showed its use was becoming common among many sectors of society. More >>
Green MPs protest Star Wars link
Thursday, 15 January 2004, 12:44 am | Green Party
The Green Party wants New Zealand to re-examine the use of the Harewood base at Christchurch airport for US supply flights to Pine Gap, in light of Australia buying into "Star Wars". More >>
Dr Cullen urged to take Green medicine for dollar
Wednesday, 14 January 2004, 10:35 pm | Green Party
Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald is urging Finance Minister Michael Cullen to consider Green proposals for getting the dollar down to a realistic level, given his failure to reveal the options he promised were available to him two months ago. More >>
