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OSH report confirms spray fears
Friday, 28 November 2003, 2:57 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is calling for all aerial spray programmes over Hamilton and Auckland to be put on hold, following a damning Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) report on the effects of the spray on staff at Hamilton's Fraser High School. More >>
Domestic shipping is sinking fast
Thursday, 27 November 2003, 3:23 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on the Government to take urgent action to save what's left of New Zealand's coastal shipping services. More >>
Make P a police priority, says Nandor
Wednesday, 26 November 2003, 2:50 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today challenged the police to declare an amnesty on personal cannabis offences so they can redistribute their resources toward coming down hard on the manufacturers of methamphetamine (P). More >>
Greens support register for organ donors
Wednesday, 26 November 2003, 10:47 am | Green Party
The Green Party is calling for the establishment of a national register of organ donors, administered by a dedicated national agency, following a unanimous recommendation from Parliament's Health Select Committee. More >>
First prize a car, second prize a coffin?
Tuesday, 25 November 2003, 2:04 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is questioning the mixed message sent in offering a new car as an incentive to participate in the new "Up to Scratch" road safety campaign, launched today. More >>
Don't make Zaoui the guinea pig
Tuesday, 25 November 2003, 2:01 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke says that Prime Minister Helen Clark has opened the way to review the law which may be used to expel Algerian asylum seeker Ahmed Zaoui. More >>
Bradford urges Taranaki support local bank staff
Tuesday, 25 November 2003, 8:51 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Bradford is urging the public to get behind TSB bank staff in their fight to get a collective contract. More >>
Cannabis debate round two: Nandor and Robson
Tuesday, 25 November 2003, 12:00 am | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos travels to Progressive MP Matt Robson's home turf to debate cannabis law reform in Auckland this Thursday evening, November 27. More >>
Oil Gusher Will Turn Into A Trickle - Fitzsimons
Monday, 24 November 2003, 3:06 pm | Green Party
Government planners are blithely ignoring the fact that the world's oil demand will very soon exceed supply, Green Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons warned today. More >>
Save the environment, don't shoot it
Monday, 24 November 2003, 9:05 am | Green Party
Exploiting the environment is not the same as saving it, Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald advised United Future's Peter Dunne today. More >>
Give us our money back, Mr Lee
Friday, 21 November 2003, 2:51 pm | Green Party
Green Co-leader Rod Donald is asking Singapore's Deputy PM Lee Hsien Loong to bring a cheque for $634 million with him when he arrives here on Sunday to wave the free-trade flag at the "Seriously Asia" forum at Parliament next week. More >>
Government ruling rides roughshod over Treaty
Friday, 21 November 2003, 2:48 pm | Green Party
Green MP, Metiria Turei said today she was extremely disappointed at the Government rejection of a Waitangi Tribunal recommendation that Maori should be compensated for the loss of oil and gas rights. More >>
Give Kremers an award, not a conviction
Friday, 21 November 2003, 11:46 am | Green Party
The actions of the Ashburton District Council to bring charges against a civic-minded tip recycler have been described by Green MP Mike Ward as "short-sighted, unfortunate and environmentally insensitive". More >>
Timber report PR dressed in store-bought lab coat
Friday, 21 November 2003, 8:59 am | Green Party
A report issued by the timber industry in an attempt to clear the use of arsenic in timber treatment has been described as "PR dressed up in a store-bought lab coat" by Green MP Sue Kedgley. More >>
Nandor applauds workplace drug agreement
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 5:12 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today congratulated the NZ Dairy Workers Union and NZ Dairy Foods for negotiating a world leading policy on alcohol and other drugs in the workplace. More >>
Locke to address anti-nuke assembly in Japan
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 5:06 pm | Green Party
Keith Locke, Green Party disarmament spokesperson and secretary of the New Zealand branch of the Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament (PNND) will be speaking this weekend at the Second Nagasaki Global Citizens Assembly for the Elimination ... More >>
Greens urge inquiry into pig wasting disease
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 2:14 pm | Green Party
Green MP Ian Ewen-Street is calling for an urgent inquiry into the pig industry, in the wake of the outbreak of the incurable pig wasting disease PMWS that could be as devastating as Foot and Mouth disease. More >>
Labelling Bill Boomerangs Across The Tasman
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 1:21 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley's private member's bill on mandatory labelling of all GE ingredients in food is to be investigated by the body with more influence over New Zealand's labelling laws than our Parliament - the Australian Senate. More >>
MAF lets in wolf, loses more than 3 little pigs
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 4:12 pm | Green Party
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) announced today that the porcine infection post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), discovered in September, was unable to be contained. MAF was concentrating its efforts on preventing spread to ... More >>
Government banks on nurses goodwill far too long
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 2:09 pm | Green Party
The Government must reconsider the effects of the student loans scheme on nurses if it believes nurses should be valued in New Zealand, Green MP Nandor Tanczos said today. More >>
