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Greens support legal move by Stop Aerial Spraying
Thursday, 30 January 2003, 9:08 am | Green Party
The Green Party supports a community group's moves to challenge the legality of the aerial bombardment of Aucklanders with the chemical cocktail Foray 48B, Green Party Biosecurity Spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street said today. More >>
Bush speech readies America for war
Wednesday, 29 January 2003, 5:32 pm | Green Party
George W. Bush's State of the Union address today gave a greater insight into the President's contempt for world opinion than it did about Iraq's alleged weapons capability, Green Foreign Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke said. More >>
Switch on to Maori TV - if you can find it
Wednesday, 29 January 2003, 1:13 pm | Green Party
Green MP Metiria Turei today described the Government's restriction of the Maori Television Service to UHF transmission as "ghettoisation of the bandwidth". More >>
Brash doles out depression
Wednesday, 29 January 2003, 12:19 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Bradford has dismissed Don Brash's call to scrap the dole as a return to depression-era servitude. More >>
Nelson asked to dig deep for human shields
Tuesday, 28 January 2003, 5:43 pm | Green Party
Green MP Mike Ward is congratulating the growing chorus of Nelson citizens opposed to war in Iraq, and is calling for fellow Nelsonians to help avoid the impending tragedy. More >>
Nelson asked to dig deep for human shields
Tuesday, 28 January 2003, 5:17 pm | Green Party
Green MP Mike Ward is congratulating the growing chorus of Nelson citizens opposed to war in Iraq, and is calling for fellow Nelsonians to help avoid the impending tragedy. More >>
Greens MP Mike Ward supports voluntary euthanasia
Tuesday, 28 January 2003, 2:08 pm | Green Party
Green Party MP Mike Ward is personally calling on all New Zealanders to fully and frankly debate the sensitive topic of voluntary euthanasia. More >>
PM talks peace but supports military build-up
Tuesday, 28 January 2003, 11:33 am | Green Party
The Green Party is accusing Prime Minister Helen Clark of playing a double game over the Iraq crisis. More >>
Greens tell PM: 'don't be bullied by Bush'
Monday, 27 January 2003, 9:08 am | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on the Prime Minister to ignore any United Nations Security Council endorsement of America's "war for oil" against Iraq that is not backed up by real evidence of a clear and present threat to other countries. "Just ... More >>
Don't do it, Richard!
Monday, 27 January 2003, 9:07 am | Green Party
Act risks losing all credibility if it uses the Electoral Integrity Act to expel Donna Awatere Huata from Parliament, says Green Co-Leader Rod Donald. More >>
Media Advisory: Metiria Turei at Ratana Festival
Thursday, 23 January 2003, 3:23 pm | Green Party
Green MP Metiria Turei will attend the Ratana Festival on Friday, January 2. The festival is held at Ratana Pa, 20kms south of Wanganui. More >>
Greens congratulate Dunne on rail U-turn
Thursday, 23 January 2003, 3:19 pm | Green Party
Green Party Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is pleased that the United Future Party has finally seen the sense of the Green "take back the track" policy. More >>
Foreign buy-up wrecks home-ownership hopes
Thursday, 23 January 2003, 11:38 am | Green Party
Land-grabbing foreign speculators are stealing the own-your-own-home dreams of thousands of young and less well-off New Zealanders, Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald said today. More >>
Greens make tracks for policy conference
Wednesday, 22 January 2003, 5:44 pm | Green Party
Most Green MPs are making their way to the Green Party’s annual summer policy conference in Masterton by train on Thursday 23 January, to draw attention to the need for a strong, viable national rail system. More >>
What price popularity, Bill?
Wednesday, 22 January 2003, 2:17 pm | Green Party
Green MP Metiria Turei is accusing Bill English of using Maori in a cynical attempt to shore up his own flagging support. More >>
Wellington’s heritage should not be left to rot
Monday, 20 January 2003, 3:10 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley is calling for the Government to instruct Transit to immediately begin the restoration of heritage buildings in the path of Wellington’s proposed Motorway bypass, following the announcement funding will be delayed for at least ... More >>
Greens tell PM to pass-on the anti-war message
Monday, 20 January 2003, 10:17 am | Green Party
Green Foreign Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke is urging the Government to listen to the thousands of New Zealanders who took to the streets around New Zealand over the weekend to voice their opposition to any involvement in America’s “oil war” against ... More >>
Councils Urged to get on their Bikes
Thursday, 16 January 2003, 5:22 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is urging local councils and community groups to get on their bikes and think "green" for a solution to ever-increasing transport woes. More >>
Blood on their hands
Thursday, 16 January 2003, 11:13 am | Green Party
Green MP and veteran peace campaigner, Sue Bradford is calling on the Government to use its vaunted influence with Washington to dissuade George W. Bush from a new war in the Middle East. More >>
Greens support 'mutant cow' court case
Wednesday, 15 January 2003, 2:20 pm | Green Party
The Green Party supports MAdGE's application for a judicial review of the decision to allow engineering of cows with human and other animal genes, Agriculture Spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street said today. More >>