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Knowledge a product of debate
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 9:19 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Bradford will be attending the Knowledge Wave conference tomorrow and Friday to voice an alternative viewpoint to a conference heavily weighted with business interests. More >>
Court exposes government as a problem child
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 3:24 pm | Green Party
Parents of special needs children achieved a victory over bully-boy Government tactics in the Court of Appeal today, said Green MP Metiria Turei. More >>
Clark bets a bob each way on war
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 2:09 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke is accusing the Government of making soothing noises to dampen anti-war sentiment at home while carefully refraining from upsetting the White House. More >>
NZ assistance for Cambodian elections
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 1:52 pm | Green Party
New Zealand is giving $455,000 to help Cambodia run its national elections in July this year, Aid Minister Marian Hobbs announced today. More >>
Young ex-prostitute denied youth benefit
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 1:50 pm | Green Party
A young 17-year-old woman trying to turn her back on prostitution and create a new future for herself is being refused an Independent Youth Benefit, Green Party Social Services Spokesperson Sue Bradford said today. More >>
Locke to receive peace petition at Parliament
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 9:10 am | Green Party
Green Foreign Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke will be presented with the final batch of signatures in the national "No New Zealand Support for the War on Terrorism" petition at 12.30pm today on the steps of Parliament. More >>
Act dragging the chain on dog law review
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 8:41 am | Green Party
The Green Party is very disappointed that Act has again refused to allow prompt action on legislation to control dangerous dogs, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today. More >>
Greens to get on their bikes
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 8:40 am | Green Party
Green MPs Rod Donald, Metiria Turei and Mike Ward will be cycling to work tomorrow to participate in the seventh Wellington Bike to Work Day. More >>
Banks' love affair with roads dooms Auckland
Tuesday, 18 February 2003, 5:00 pm | Green Party
Mayor John Banks' road-obsessed vision for Auckland's future would confine the nation's biggest city to a concrete, diesel-infused vision of hell, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today. More >>
Pharmac itself says medicines ads out of control
Tuesday, 18 February 2003, 11:37 am | Green Party
Direct to consumer advertising of prescription medicines has contributed to a $10.7 million blowout of Pharmac's budget, Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today. More >>
Prostitution Petition Presented to Parliament
Tuesday, 18 February 2003, 11:36 am | Green Party
The view of Aucklanders supporting an end to the Victorian practice of treating prostitutes like criminals gets an airing today, when Sue Bradford presents a petition to Parliament. More >>
Advertising of medicines must be banned: Greens
Monday, 17 February 2003, 10:47 am | Green Party
Green Health spokesperson Sue Kedgley is calling on the Government to ban direct marketing of prescription medicines to consumers, in the light of a damning report by academics from all of New Zealand's medical schools. More >>
Government must come clean on secret war
Monday, 17 February 2003, 8:31 am | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke is demanding the government comes clean on SAS activities in Afghanistan, following revelations in today's Sunday Star Times. More >>
Fitzsimons to PM: This is our Vietnam
Monday, 17 February 2003, 8:28 am | Green Party
Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said Prime Minister Helen Clark is fooling herself if she dismisses yesterday's nationwide protests as "relatively small". More >>
Supermarket should practice what it preaches
Friday, 14 February 2003, 12:11 am | Green Party
Freedom of choice means more than the right to cream alcohol profits, Green MP Nandor Tanczos warned Progressive Enterprises today. More >>
New Zealanders reject the War for Oil
Friday, 14 February 2003, 12:09 am | Green Party
A new poll indicating massive opposition to a unilateral US invasion of Iraq augurs well for the turnout at tomorrow's anti-war rallies, Green MP, Keith Locke said today. More >>
Government has misread Royal Commission report
Thursday, 13 February 2003, 7:52 pm | Green Party
The Government proved today in Parliament it has not understood the report of the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification, whose recommendations it says it is implementing. More >>
Hobbs wrong again on GE bioreactors
Thursday, 13 February 2003, 7:50 pm | Green Party
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said this evening Environment Minister Marian Hobbs had got it wrong on GE again - for the second time in one day. More >>
Greens urge big turn-out for peace
Thursday, 13 February 2003, 2:42 pm | Green Party
The Green Party's nine MPs are urging concerned New Zealanders to join them on Saturday at the wave of peace rallies being held around the country to voice opposition to Bush's War for Oil. More >>
Greens ask PM for a roar, not a squeak
Wednesday, 12 February 2003, 4:58 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is challenging Helen Clark and the Labour Party to return to their anti-war roots and finally send an unequivocal condemnation of America's war plans to the White House. More >>
