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'Lose-Lose' Funding For Special Education Attacked

Tuesday, 18 December 2001, 11:08 am | Green Party

Green Party Education spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street said that a hearing expected to begin today in the Auckland High Court highlights distortions in the funding for special education needs. More >>

Greens Oppose Using Hercules For War Effort

Tuesday, 18 December 2001, 9:13 am | Green Party

Green Defence spokesperson Keith Locke said today the two Hercules which are due to arrive in Afghanistan shortly should have been contributing to the aid effort, not to the war. More >>

Birch report an attack on public transport

Monday, 17 December 2001, 9:48 am | Green Party

Auckland Green MP Keith Locke today slammed the Birch report on Auckland City Council spending as "extreme New Right". More >>

Flatulence Tax Gone With The Wind - Greens

Friday, 14 December 2001, 2:26 pm | Green Party

The Green Party said today it would not support any Government moves to introduce a "flatulence tax" on farm animals as a way of meeting Kyoto Protocol targets. More >>

MAF Have No Idea On Painted Apple Moth

Friday, 14 December 2001, 10:24 am | Green Party

Green Party Biosecurity spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street today said news that MAF plan to double the area to be sprayed for the painted apple moth showed that the incursion had moved from being a serious problem to one that was fast becoming out of control. More >>

Bradford Has Concerns Around Private Toll Road

Friday, 14 December 2001, 9:21 am | Green Party

Green MP and Rodney candidate Sue Bradford said today she was concerned that a proposal to build New Zealand's first private toll road in Rodney could be a Trojan Horse for other privately owned toll roads. More >>

Paid Parental Leave Underweight And Overdue

Thursday, 13 December 2001, 4:24 pm | Green Party

If men gave birth to babies paid parental leave would have been introduced in New Zealand decades ago. More >>

Greens Seek Amendments To Paid Parental Leave

Thursday, 13 December 2001, 1:36 pm | Green Party

The Green Party will be seeking amendments to the Paid Parental Leave bill which is being introduced to parliament this afternoon. More >>

Jeanette Fitzsimons Calls For Waihi Inquiry

Thursday, 13 December 2001, 10:18 am | Green Party

Coromandel MP and Green Party Co-leader, Jeanette Fitzsimons is returning to her electorate to see for herself the damage from the latest subsidence in Waihi. More >>

Greens Welcome $500,000 Dioxin Budget Initiative

Wednesday, 12 December 2001, 3:37 pm | Green Party

Greens welcome dioxin budget initiative Speech to Parliament - General Debate Speaker number one Delivered at 3.10pm More >>

Inquiry Should Be Started In Tandem With Spraying

Tuesday, 11 December 2001, 4:41 pm | Green Party

Green Party Biosecurity spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street said today that the Minister's decision to step in and allow spraying to go ahead in West Auckland should be accompanied by an inquiry into what went wrong. More >>

Wellington mayors should follow public on rail

Tuesday, 11 December 2001, 3:57 pm | Green Party

Green MP Sue Kedgley said today that Wellington mayors should get behind the proposed Regional Council's joint venture partnership for rail following a poll showing massive support for the project. More >>

Call For Steel Tariffs Show US Free Trade A Mirage

Tuesday, 11 December 2001, 11:33 am | Green Party

Green Co-leader Rod Donald today said calls for import tariffs on steel by the US International Trade Commission showed that a free trade deal with the United States was a mirage. More >>

Goff Waters Down Clean Slate Bill

Tuesday, 11 December 2001, 10:09 am | Green Party

Green MP Nandor Tanczos has welcomed the long-awaited introduction of Phil Goff's Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Bill last night, saying it would allow progress to finally be made on his original Clean Slate Bill. More >>

What's In New Funding For Nurses?

Monday, 10 December 2001, 4:56 pm | Green Party

Green Party Health spokesperson Sue Kedgley welcomed a new three year funding plan for the health sector but said fundamental pressures such as low wages for nurses, radiotherapists and other health professionals, and the ballooning DHB deficits, ... More >>

"Party Hard, The Campaign Starts In The Morning!"

Monday, 10 December 2001, 10:33 am | Green Party

I am delighted to be in the Green capital of New Zealand. Pokororo is now known far and wide as the place where the Green Party scored its highest party vote in percentage terms - 41% - in the 1999 elections. Congratulations to the 46 of you who voted Green. ... More >>