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A Step In The Right Direction
Monday, 10 June 2002, 10:04 am | Green Party
Green Party Transport spokesperson Sue Kedgley is hailing the opening of priority bus lanes in Wellington as "brilliant." More >>
Greens Welcome Child Poverty Initiative
Monday, 10 June 2002, 9:18 am | Green Party
Green Party Children's Issues spokesperson, Sue Bradford, has welcomed news that Labour is to follow the Greens and release policy this week aimed specifically at eliminating child poverty. More >>
Refugee Legislation An Affront To High Court
Monday, 10 June 2002, 9:16 am | Green Party
Green Party Immigration spokesperson Keith Locke is asking the government not to proceed this week with refugee legislation that he says would prejudge a case currently before the High Court. More >>
Boy Racer Bill a farce - officially
Saturday, 8 June 2002, 1:12 pm | Green Party
Green Justice and Youth Affairs Spokesperson Nandor Tanczos today said that news that Clayton Cosgrove's 'Boy Racer Bill' breached the Bill of Rights was a complete justification of the Green Party's refusal to support it through its first reading. More >>
Rongotai Greens launch campaign
Saturday, 8 June 2002, 1:07 pm | Green Party
Green Rongotai candidate Celia Wade-Brown and Green co-leader Rod Donald will launch the Rongotai campaign with a fundraising breakfast at the Island Bay Surf Club tomorrow from 8.30am. More >>
'Law and Order' campaign a farce - Greens
Wednesday, 5 June 2002, 4:46 pm | Green Party
Green Spokesperson on Children's Issues Sue Bradford today said the National Party was fast turning any debate over law and order into a farce with today's policy launch that could see 12 year olds in prison. More >>
Greens host tour of egg farms
Wednesday, 5 June 2002, 2:21 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley has organised MPs from three different parties to visit a free-range, barn-raised and a battery egg farm tomorrow morning. More >>
Why GE Release Is A Bottom Line - Fitzsimons
Wednesday, 5 June 2002, 1:51 pm | Green Party
Last week, the Green Party's seven MPs signalled a fundamental change in the balance of power in the New Zealand Parliament, writes Green Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons. By signalling they would pull support from any Government that ended the moratorium ... More >>
Donald invites King to lunch
Wednesday, 5 June 2002, 1:02 pm | Green Party
Green co-leader Rod Donald will invite Health Minister Annette King to a hemp pasta and salad lunch in parliament next week to discuss the stupidity of an Australia New Zealand Food Authority decision banning the use of hemp based food products. More >>
Green conference supports Ngawha protestors
Tuesday, 4 June 2002, 4:20 pm | Green Party
The Green Party conference over the weekend passed a unanimous motion supporting the people of Ngawha in their opposition to a new prison at Ngawha Springs. A koha was collected and will be delivered by Jeanette Fitzsimons later in the week. More >>
Green Co-Leader visits Karamea, Westport & Reefton
Tuesday, 4 June 2002, 4:19 pm | Green Party
Green co-leader Rod Donald will be visiting Buller from Wednesday 5th until Friday 7th of June. More >>
Dalziel deceiving public over refugee detentions
Tuesday, 4 June 2002, 9:14 am | Green Party
Green Immigration spokesperson Keith Locke has called on Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel to release those asylum seekers currently detained in New Zealand, following a High Court decision on Friday. More >>
Greens challenge Labour to move
Tuesday, 4 June 2002, 9:12 am | Green Party
The Green Party has ended its election year AGM with a call for Labour to shift its intransigent position on GE. More >>
Small steps go a long way for children
Tuesday, 4 June 2002, 9:09 am | Green Party
Green MPs Sue Bradford and Sue Kedgley today launched the new children's policy at the Auckland conference, with a pledge that the party will work to end child poverty by 2010. More >>
Blair Government backtracks on GE
Tuesday, 4 June 2002, 12:13 am | Green Party
Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today said Prime Minister Helen Clark should look at what is happening in the UK where her Labour counterpart Tony Blair is backtracking on his previous support for GE. More >>
Australian Green Senator-elect Kerry Nettle Speech
Saturday, 1 June 2002, 3:23 pm | Green Party
Speech by Australian Green Senator-elect Kerry Nettle to New Zealand Green annual conference Waipapa Marae, Auckland University More >>
Party Hard, Party Vote Hard - Donald Speech
Saturday, 1 June 2002, 3:20 pm | Green Party
Party Hard, Party Vote Hard Rod Donald's speech to Green AGM Delivered at 10.15am More >>
Jeanette Fitzsimons Co-leader Green Party AGM Spch
Saturday, 1 June 2002, 3:19 pm | Green Party
A few days before the end of the last millennium the Greens won their first parliamentary representation under their own name in New Zealand. We all remember the impossible odds, the wry celebration when we reached single figures in the polls, the election ... More >>
Damning EU Report Confirms Contamination Fears
Friday, 31 May 2002, 9:38 am | Green Party
Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today said the concerns of many New Zealanders had been confirmed by a new EU report showing organic farming will be shut down if genetically engineered crops are grown commercially. More >>
Longer Trucks A Hazard, Misses The Point
Friday, 31 May 2002, 12:12 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley today said the approval for longer logging trucks would be a hazard to motorists and would lead to more heavy trucks on roads when the logs should be moved by rail wherever possible. More >>
