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Steps to protect children from poisoned playground
Tuesday, 3 December 2002, 10:30 am | Green Party
Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley is calling on all local councils around New Zealand to immediately adopt a series of simple steps to protect children in playgrounds built from CCA-treated timber. More >>
Thirty Auckland police waste time on cannabis
Tuesday, 3 December 2002, 8:27 am | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos says Auckland could immediately gain the equivalent of another 30 sworn police officers - if police were directed not to enforce the ludicrous cannabis laws. More >>
Kedgley urges regional council to heed STV vote
Monday, 2 December 2002, 10:43 am | Green Party
Victory for the STV option in the Wellington referendum is great news for the city, Wellington Green MP Sue Kedgley said today. More >>
'Pre-emptive' strikes would legitimise terror
Monday, 2 December 2002, 10:01 am | Green Party
France's raid on the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland would have been legal and appropriate under John Howard's rationale for "pre-emptive" strikes on countries that harbour groups seen as a threat to another country's national interests, Green Foreign Affairs ... More >>
Feeding antibiotics to healthy animals must stop
Friday, 29 November 2002, 1:18 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley is calling for a ban on the routine feeding of antibiotics to healthy animals, and immediate testing of food produce from animals that have been fed antibiotics. More >>
CCA-contaminated sites ticking time-bombs
Friday, 29 November 2002, 12:46 am | Green Party
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today she and other environmentalists had been warning for at least 20 years that sites contaminated by CCA timber treatment were ticking time bombs. More >>
Deepening trade deficit prompts call buy NZ made
Thursday, 28 November 2002, 5:35 pm | Green Party
The massive reversal in New Zealand's trade fortunes over the past year highlights the failure of the Government's fixation with export-led growth, Green Trade Spokesperson, Rod Donald said today. More >>
Too much wiggle-room at the biosecurity border
Thursday, 28 November 2002, 1:24 pm | Green Party
The Painted Apple Moth invasion is a crisis New Zealand will be condemned to relive again and again unless we get serious as a nation about protecting our biosecurity, Green MP Ian Ewen-Street said today. More >>
Cannabis comments insult Maori
Wednesday, 27 November 2002, 11:54 am | Green Party
Irresponsible comments on last night's TV2 documentary "Dope: Behind the Smoke" have simply served to reinforce racial stereotypes of Maori drug-taking, Green Maori Affairs spokesperson Metiria Turei said today. More >>
Pitcairn rights denied
Wednesday, 27 November 2002, 8:17 am | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke remains unconvinced that trials regarding sex offending on Pitcairn Island should be held in New Zealand. More >>
A legacy of CCA-contaminated sites
Tuesday, 26 November 2002, 2:55 pm | Green Party
Significant risks to the environment, and indirectly to humans, are being posed by chromated copper arsenate (CCA) timber treatment sites, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons warned today. More >>
Language test turns back the clock
Tuesday, 26 November 2002, 2:53 pm | Green Party
New language tests for immigrants will turn New Zealand into the world's last remaining white-Anglo-Saxon enclave, Green Immigration spokesperson Metiria Turei warned today. More >>
Nandor accuses council of targeting activists
Tuesday, 26 November 2002, 2:52 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos has spoken up in support of a campaign challenging a ruling that stops people publicly displaying hoardings of who NOT to vote for. More >>
Nandor challenges Dunne to listen to the experts
Monday, 25 November 2002, 3:27 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos is endorsing calls for a more sensible policy on cannabis by the co-author of a major medical report. More >>
Greens oppose Air NZ sell-out
Monday, 25 November 2002, 1:08 pm | Green Party
New Zealand stands to effectively lose control of yet another key asset with the announcement that Qantas will be offered a strategic stake in Air New Zealand, Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald said today. More >>
Telecom changes don't go far enough
Friday, 22 November 2002, 2:48 pm | Green Party
But Telecom was still profiteering with its decision to keep charging the same amount for second phone lines as for new connections, he said. More >>
Government must keep rail rolling
Thursday, 21 November 2002, 4:43 pm | Green Party
The precarious state of Tranz Rail reinforces the need for the Government to own the country's rail track as the company is no longer capable of guaranteeing rail and ferry services, Green Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today. More >>
Further enmeshed in a military web
Thursday, 21 November 2002, 3:33 pm | Green Party
The Government is buying its way deeper into a military relationship with Washington by allowing the US Air Force to establish a high frequency radio transmitter in New Zealand, Green Party Defence Spokesperson Keith Locke said today. More >>
Time to move beyond the Oil Age
Thursday, 21 November 2002, 2:05 pm | Green Party
The environmental disaster caused by the break-up of the oil tanker Prestige off the Spanish coast is yet another reason for the world to move out of the Oil Age, Green Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today. More >>
Don't forget to tell us, Helen
Thursday, 21 November 2002, 9:46 am | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke is reminding the Prime Minister to let the New Zealand public know when our SAS contingent is finally pulled out of Afghanistan. More >>
