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ANZCCART offers peek beneath secret veil
Thursday, 21 August 2003, 8:45 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley said she was delighted that ANZCCART had responded to her challenge to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding animal experimentation, and had agreed there was a need for transparency surrounding animal research and testing procedures. More >>
Rod Donald takes MMP message across Tasman
Thursday, 21 August 2003, 4:14 pm | Green Party
Green Party Co-leader and Electoral Reform spokesperson, Rod Donald will be in Australia from Thursday 21st August to Monday 25th (inclusive) as a guest speaker at the Now We The People Conference in Sydney. More >>
Fee Maxima Fails Tertiary Sector
Thursday, 21 August 2003, 2:20 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos said the Government's fee maxima system announced today would fail to address student hardship and problems created by an underfunded tertiary education sector. More >>
GE food study full of holes
Wednesday, 20 August 2003, 1:27 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley has labelled the Food Safety Authority's study into GE food labelling compliance as a pathetic reading of selective facts. More >>
Work-life balance 'long overdue'
Tuesday, 19 August 2003, 4:20 pm | Green Party
Green MP Mike Ward has welcomed the establishment of a Government steering group to promote a work-life balance, announced today by Labour Minister Margaret Wilson. More >>
Protect both customary rights and access: Greens
Tuesday, 19 August 2003, 12:27 am | Green Party
The Green Party is promoting an approach to the foreshore debate in which Maori customary title and rights co-exist alongside protection of public access to the coast. More >>
Denial of customary rights unacceptable - Greens
Monday, 18 August 2003, 4:33 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on the Government to recognise Maori rights in regard to the foreshore and seabed. More >>
Animal experiments as secret as SIS
Monday, 18 August 2003, 11:56 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley today called on the Government to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding animal experiments in New Zealand. More >>
Locke applauds Forum concern for West Papua
Monday, 18 August 2003, 10:04 am | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke is calling on Indonesia to enter into a dialogue with the Pacific Islands Forum over the administration and future of West Papua, following the concern over the region expressed in the Forum's final communiqué. More >>
Zero Tariffs Equal Zero Workers, Warn Greens
Friday, 15 August 2003, 6:00 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is challenging Commerce Minister Lianne Dalziel to visit newly-redundant Levin clothing workers, to learn first-hand the cruel reality of her Government's threat to reduce clothing tariffs. More >>
Greens applaud hemp trial success
Friday, 15 August 2003, 5:07 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos said today the future of New Zealand's industrial hemp industry was bright, following reports of the second year of field trials and the approval of another year of trials. More >>
Govt Must Come Clean on Waitaki Water Plans
Friday, 15 August 2003, 5:06 pm | Green Party
The Government needs to come clean on what it is planning for the Waitaki River and particularly Project Aqua, Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today. More >>
Kedgley to address animal welfare conference
Friday, 15 August 2003, 9:51 am | Green Party
Green MP and Animal Welfare spokesperson Sue Kedgley will be a keynote speaker at the Australia New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching being held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor on Monday 17 August in Christchurch. More >>
Government should take urgency on seabird deaths
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 5:11 pm | Green Party
The Government should urgently introduce mandatory penalties, including early closure of fisheries, for fishers that continue to slaughter seabirds, such as endangered albatrosses, Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today. More >>
Dunne running from the facts
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 2:02 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today repeated his invitation to Peter Dunne to publicly debate cannabis law reform, saying he would organise a panel discussion in Ohariu-Belmont on the issue and leave a chair empty if Mr Dunne didn't front. More >>
Our money, their gamble, our loss
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 1:10 pm | Green Party
The Greens are labelling as "crazy" the decision to risk more than half of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund on offshore stockmarkets. More >>
NZ Children's Food Awards shortlist announced
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 1:10 pm | Green Party
A large number of Kiwi parents have nominated breastmilk as a top food in the inaugural New Zealand Children's Food Awards. More >>
Nandor challenges Dunne
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 8:51 am | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos challenged United Future leader Peter Dunne today in Parliament to publicly debate cannabis law reform. More >>
Locke: Don't leave West Papua off Forum agenda
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 12:56 am | Green Party
Green MP is urging Helen Clark to ensure West Papua is discussed at the Pacific Island Forum. More >>
Highest Bidder Locking Gates On High
Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 5:02 pm | Green Party
Large tracts of celebrated New Zealand high country will be increasingly locked away by private owners if the Government does not act to protect access to land currently up for tenure review, said the Green Party. More >>
