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Greens Want Anti-Defection Act Repealed
Tuesday, 19 March 2002, 11:02 am | Green Party
Green Party co-leader Rod Donald said today the Greens would support the repeal of the Electoral Integrity Act. More >>
Greens welcome demise of Hong Kong deal
Monday, 18 March 2002, 6:04 pm | Green Party
The Green Party has welcomed news that the Government has finally bailed-out of the free trade deal with Hong Kong. More >>
Green statement on the Hector's Dolphin
Monday, 18 March 2002, 9:26 am | Green Party
The clock is fast running down on the North Island Hector's Dolphin and the Greens share the deep concern of New Zealanders everywhere that, if things do not change fast, we may soon lose this precious dolphin once and for all. More >>
Greens seriously concerned with MAF's explanations
Friday, 15 March 2002, 3:49 pm | Green Party
Green Biosecurity Spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street today said he was not satisfied with or reassured by MAFs explanations about their handling of the painted apple moth incursion in West Auckland. More >>
US Finally Confirms Kiwi SAS Troops In Afghanistan
Friday, 15 March 2002, 2:10 pm | Green Party
The United States has finally told New Zealand the news that Helen Clark had a duty to disclose months ago: that our SAS troops are in Afghanistan and have been involved in military action, Green Foreign Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke said today. More >>
Brains More Important Than Tongues - Nandor
Friday, 15 March 2002, 11:25 am | Green Party
Green Youth Affairs Spokesperson Nandor Tanczos today said Fielding High School Principal Roger Menzies should focus on providing education rather than stamping out self expression among students. More >>
Hong Kong Free Trade Is A Dead Deal
Thursday, 14 March 2002, 11:03 pm | Green Party
Green Party Trade spokesperson Rod Donald is calling on Trade Minister Jim Sutton to finally kill-off the Hong Kong free trade deal at his meeting tomorrow [Friday] with his Hong Kong counterpart. More >>
Organic Soup Could Prevent Heart Disease, Cancers
Thursday, 14 March 2002, 4:44 pm | Green Party
Green Agriculture Spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street today welcomed a report published in New Scientist magazine that shows eating organic food could help reduce the risk of developing cancer or of suffering a heart attack or stroke. More >>
Kedgley speech - SPCA battery cage campaign
Thursday, 14 March 2002, 4:35 pm | Green Party
Mahatma Gandhi once said that 'the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated'. More >>
MAF To Front Up On Painted Apple Moth Today
Thursday, 14 March 2002, 9:36 am | Green Party
MAF and the Ministry of Health will today brief the Primary Production Select Committee on the controversial programme to eradicate the painted apple moth in West Auckland with an aerial spraying programme. More >>
Greens Applaud Waiheke Marine Reserve
Thursday, 14 March 2002, 9:29 am | Green Party
Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today congratulated Conservation Minister Sandra Lee on her efforts to establish a new marine reserve for Te Matuku on Waiheke Island. More >>
Greens To Support Ban On Xenotransplantion Trials
Thursday, 14 March 2002, 9:24 am | Green Party
The Green Party has decided to support a Government proposal to halt xenotransplantation trials in New Zealand for the next two years, including a proposed Diatranz trial to implant pig cells in diabetics. More >>
Report On Beneficiary Marriage Tests Welcomed
Thursday, 14 March 2002, 9:24 am | Green Party
Green Social Services MP Sue Bradford today welcomed a report that showed WINZ had been failing to implement the proper tests in determining 'marriage-type' relationships for benefit entitlements. More >>
Primary Health Care Boost Welcomed
Thursday, 14 March 2002, 9:21 am | Green Party
Health spokesperson Sue Kedgley said a national capitation system could offer opportunities for health prevention as long as it was funded properly and there was adequate community support. More >>
Greens Challenge Battery Farms To Open Up
Wednesday, 13 March 2002, 4:56 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is challenging egg producers using battery cages to open up their operations to public scrutiny and allow journalists to visit their factory farms. More >>
Farmers Lead The Way For Local Body Elections
Wednesday, 13 March 2002, 3:24 pm | Green Party
Fonterra's decision to adopt the Single Transferable Voting system for Board and Council elections has been welcomed by Green Party Electoral Reform spokesperson, Rod Donald. More >>
New Zealand Has Middle East Role To Play
Wednesday, 13 March 2002, 11:11 am | Green Party
The growing bloodbath in the Middle East is a tragedy that demands action from world leaders and New Zealand can't sit on the sidelines, Green Party Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Keith Locke said today. More >>
Stop Draconian Plans For Dietary Supplements
Wednesday, 13 March 2002, 9:58 am | Green Party
Green Health spokesperson Sue Kedgley is calling on the Government to abandon its plans to radically tighten controls on dietary supplements by setting up a new Trans-Tasman body to regulate them. More >>
Campus Tour Ends, Concerns Grow
Tuesday, 12 March 2002, 2:07 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos wrapped up his tour of around 15 tertiary institutions on Friday and says he is concerned at the state of the entire tertiary sector. More >>
Police Cells No Place For Mentally Ill - Bradford
Tuesday, 12 March 2002, 2:06 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Bradford will today ask the Health Minister what she is doing to stop mentally ill people being locked up in police cells for up to 36 hours because there are no intensive care beds for them. More >>
