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'Prove It' must prove it to Commission
Thursday, 3 April 2003, 12:20 am | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos has laid a complaint with the Commerce Commission against the New Zealand distributors of home drug-testing kit, DrugCheck5, alleging it has made false claims about the product. More >>
Complaint over lack of foreign meat labelling
Thursday, 3 April 2003, 12:05 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley is lodging a complaint with the Commerce Commission today over imported meat, fish, and other fresh food being sold to New Zealand consumers without any indication of where it has come from. More >>
Teenage drug tests "unreliable and dangerous"
Wednesday, 2 April 2003, 4:17 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today criticised the marketers of a new home drug-test kit, saying that they were unreliable and would harm family relationships. More >>
GATS threatens councils' push to buy local
Wednesday, 2 April 2003, 3:42 pm | Green Party
Green MP Mike Ward today warned local government bodies that their attempts to support local businesses may be thwarted by the Government's commitment to GATS. More >>
Asset testing policy will be aged before it starts
Wednesday, 2 April 2003, 3:41 pm | Green Party
The Government's announcement today that it will delay until 2005 the phasing out of asset testing of older people in long-term care is ludicrous, Green Party MPs Sue Kedgley and Mike Ward said today. More >>
GATS offer goes too far
Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 6:04 pm | Green Party
The Government's initial GATS offer contained little to reassure New Zealanders that essential services will remain in kiwi hands, Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald said today. More >>
Boy Racer Bill: guilty until proven innocent
Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 6:03 pm | Green Party
The Green Party today attacked the so-called 'Boy Racer Bill' for overturning one of the fundamental principles of our justice system: that you are innocent until proven guilty. More >>
Govt to fake majority with blatant gerrymander
Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 11:42 am | Green Party
The Green Party today accused the Government of attempting to blatantly gerrymander parliamentary voting to gain a "fake" majority. More >>
Greens back Clark holding her ground
Monday, 31 March 2003, 5:58 pm | Green Party
Green Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke is today congratulating Helen Clark for taking a strong anti-war position at today's post-Cabinet press conference. More >>
Green Party salutes Sir Edmund Hillary
Monday, 31 March 2003, 9:24 am | Green Party
The Green Party is congratulating Sir Edmund Hillary on his outstanding lifelong achievements. Parliament on Monday celebrates the 50th year anniversary of the explorer's famous ascent of Mount Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. More >>
Government in 'bum' rush to GATS
Monday, 31 March 2003, 9:23 am | Green Party
Green Party Co-Leader Rod Donald today called on the Government to heed the multitude of warnings not rush headlong into lodging a GATS offer on Monday. More >>
Green MPs at weekend peace rallies
Friday, 28 March 2003, 3:42 pm | Green Party
Green MPs continue to voice strong opposition to the conflict in Iraq, and will participate in rallies throughout New Zealand this weekend. More >>
Keep your kanga paws off our dollar!
Friday, 28 March 2003, 11:42 am | Green Party
The kangaroos have pocketed enough Kiwi cash and businesses without also taking our dollar, Green Co-leader Rod Donald today said. More >>
Rid pokie funds of feudalism, says Bradford
Thursday, 27 March 2003, 4:44 pm | Green Party
Some private charitable trusts distributing pokie proceeds are operating a fiefdom of favouritism and cannot be trusted to distribute pokie money equitably, said Sue Bradford today. More >>
Greens applaud NZ Call for end to hostilities
Thursday, 27 March 2003, 1:47 pm | Green Party
Green Foreign Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke has welcomed New Zealand's UN Ambassador's call today for an end to hostilities in Iraq. More >>
Greens call for stop to fossil freeloading
Thursday, 27 March 2003, 1:43 pm | Green Party
Coal advocates should get their heads out of the ground and stop taking a free ride on the environment and public health, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today. More >>
MAF response must be clear - not a tangled web
Wednesday, 26 March 2003, 12:12 am | Green Party
The discovery of yet another moth pest in Auckland challenges MAF to put into practice the lessons it claims to have learned form the disastrous painted apple moth incursion, Green Party Biosecurity Spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street MP said today. More >>
Government turns on to Green power strategy
Tuesday, 25 March 2003, 5:05 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is delighted the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority is acting on suggestions from Greens Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons, made during the last dry winter (see releases 1 and 2 below), to develop a comprehensive power-saving ... More >>
Stop sweeping toxic mould under the 'carpet'
Tuesday, 25 March 2003, 2:30 pm | Green Party
Green MP and Health spokesperson Sue Kedgley is calling on the Government to urgently begin a survey of at-risk homes to determine the extent of the toxic mould stachybotrys in New Zealand houses. More >>
Food For Thought: Food for Thought
Monday, 24 March 2003, 3:03 pm | Green Party
The Government in the next few weeks will decide whether or not to introduce mandatory country of origin labelling in New Zealand. We want to generate a campaign to let the Government know consumers are interested in knowing where their food comes from ... More >>
