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Locke glad Zaoui is out of Paremoremo hell-hole
Thursday, 16 October 2003, 5:15 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke has welcome the end of Algerian asylum seeker, Ahmed Zaoui's solitary confinement at Paremoremo prison today. More >>
World's biggest GE company pulls out of Europe
Thursday, 16 October 2003, 5:15 pm | Green Party
In a major development signalling a further decline in global GE prospects, the world's biggest biotechnology company Monsanto has announced it is pulling out of developing wheat and barley for the European market, Green Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said ... More >>
Correction 2003 Children's Food Awards: GE Genie
Thursday, 16 October 2003, 5:14 pm | Green Party
Nestle's Milo has been inadvertently presented as a winner of the GE Genie Award at the 2003 Children's Food Awards, as voted by New Zealand parents. More >>
Close the secret court - free Zaoui
Thursday, 16 October 2003, 5:13 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke is calling on the Immigration Minister to withdraw the Security Risk Certificate on Algerian asylum seeker Ahmed Zaoui. More >>
Kiwi Parents Vote For Best And Worst Food
Thursday, 16 October 2003, 1:45 pm | Green Party
The verdict is out: parents are fed up with the poor quality of much of the food that is on offer for children and worried about the effect it is having on their children's health, Green MP and organiser of the first New Zealand Children's Food ... More >>
Schools Should Remain Advertising-Free Zones
Thursday, 16 October 2003, 1:43 pm | Green Party
McDonald's has been singled out by parents for the worst advertising of food or drink that's aimed at children in the first ever New Zealand Children's Food Awards, held at Parliament's Grand Hall today. More >>
2003 Children's Food Awards Winners
Thursday, 16 October 2003, 1:42 pm | Green Party
SICKLY SWEET Presented by Dr. Robyn Toomath, Fight the Obesity Epidemic Kellogg's Froot Loops More >>
Public has no confidence in GE regulator
Wednesday, 15 October 2003, 4:17 pm | Green Party
A new poll showing that the majority of New Zealanders do not have confidence in the GE regulator ERMA means the brakes must go back on GE immediately, Green Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today. More >>
How much spray does it take to kill one dead moth?
Wednesday, 15 October 2003, 11:21 am | Green Party
The Greens are appalled that Hamilton residents are again being subjected to aerial spraying of the chemical cocktail Foray 48B to kill any Asian Gypsy Moths that might be in Hamilton. More >>
Fitzsimmons' Noom Bill 3rd reading speech
Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 11:45 pm | Green Party
This final debate on the New Organisms and Other Matters Bill is like the final act of an inexorably unfolding Greek Tragedy. The protagonists push ahead blindly on their predestined paths, deaf to the cries of the chorus and the forebodings of the ... More >>
Like watching a Greek a tragedy ...
Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 3:27 pm | Green Party
Watching the NOOM Bill proceeding through Parliament has been like watching a Greek tragedy unfold, Green Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today. More >>
Truancy moves welcomed, but still must try harder
Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 3:26 pm | Green Party
Green MP Metiria Turei has commended the Government's $8.6 million commitment to fight truancy, but said that more effort would be required to address the real causes of the problem. More >>
Kiwi, Aussie Greens create food fighting history
Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 2:44 pm | Green Party
The Greens have created a slice of political history as, for the first time ever, parallel bills are being presented to both the New Zealand and Australian Parliaments. More >>
Maori will benefit from Supreme Court, say Greens
Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 9:49 am | Green Party
The Green Party is confident that Maori will benefit from the establishment of a Supreme Court, Maori Affairs spokesperson, Metiria Turei said today. More >>
Misinformation ruling Supreme Court debate
Monday, 13 October 2003, 3:22 pm | Green Party
The Green Party today accused right wing political parties of attempting to sacrifice access to justice, as well as accuracy, in their campaign to retain appeals to the Privy Council. More >>
Inaugural Children's Food Awards this Thursday
Monday, 13 October 2003, 2:32 pm | Green Party
The 2003 New Zealand Children's Food Awards will be held this Thursday, October 16, in the Grand Hall of Parliament House from 11am to 12.30pm. More >>
Hobbs' claim GE will fund health & ed "bizarre"
Monday, 13 October 2003, 8:50 am | Green Party
The Green Co-leaders are astonished to hear Environment Minister Marian Hobbs proclaiming on Australian national television news that GE is going to fund health and education in New Zealand. More >>
Mallard distorts truth over school closures
Monday, 13 October 2003, 8:48 am | Green Party
Education Minister Trevor Mallard is distorting the truth when he says closing an estimated 300 schools over the next 10 years will improve the quality of education, Green MP Metiria Turei said today. More >>
Greens tell Health Minister to go and get sprayed
Friday, 10 October 2003, 8:41 am | Green Party
The Green Party is challenging Health Minister Annette King to go to Hamilton and stand in the spray path of the aircraft dousing residents with the toxic chemical cocktail Foray 48B. More >>
Govt ignores GE marches at its peril
Friday, 10 October 2003, 12:01 am | Green Party
The Government has to wake up and respect New Zealanders' huge opposition to GE release, which will be expressed in GE free marches around the country tomorrow, the Green Co-leaders say. More >>
