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December 7 a dim day for GE labelling
Friday, 7 December 2001, 11:01 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley says the introduction of a GE labelling system on December 7 will bring more confusion not clarity for consumers. Has the Naked Chef bought into a Kiwi battle with his promotion of Pam’s - a supermarket brand which is not GE Free? More >>
More Confusion For Consumers
Friday, 7 December 2001, 10:17 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley said the long awaited labelling scheme for GE foods which comes into force today was a Clayton's scheme which, rather than helping consumers, will confuse them even more. More >>
Kedgley - 'Clayton's' GE Labelling
Friday, 7 December 2001, 10:12 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley will host a tour of a major Wellington supermarket this Friday 7 to help consumers understand the new labelling regime for genetically engineered foods which comes into force on Friday. More >>
Greens Grow Up
Thursday, 6 December 2001, 4:53 pm | Green Party
"The Green Party has achieved much in its first two years in Parliament," Co-leader, Jeanette Fitzsimons said today, "but what we do in the next year will establish us firmly and permanently as the third force in Parliament. More >>
Pigs At Parliament This Afternoon
Thursday, 6 December 2001, 1:29 pm | Green Party
Borris the pig and Libby the piglet will be arriving at parliament at 3.30 this afternoon to lobby on behalf of thousands of their peers who are contained in small sow crates up and down the country. More >>
Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Bill
Thursday, 6 December 2001, 9:40 am | Green Party
Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Bill Sue Bradford - Green Party First Reading speech EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY More >>
Kedgley to clarify 'Clayton's' GE labelling
Thursday, 6 December 2001, 9:39 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley will host a tour of a major Wellington supermarket this Friday 7 to help consumers understand the new labelling regime for genetically engineered foods which comes into force on Friday. More >>
Will Goff Help The Palestinians?
Wednesday, 5 December 2001, 1:18 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke is inviting Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff to speak out against Israel's assault on the Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. More >>
Libby the piglet coming to parliament
Tuesday, 4 December 2001, 3:41 pm | Green Party
A new poll released today by the SPCA shows 86 per cent of New Zealanders think the use of sow crates in pig farming is unacceptable and 87 per cent of people want them banned by 2006 at the latest. More >>
Greens Want Inquiry Into MAF Handling Of Moth
Tuesday, 4 December 2001, 1:35 pm | Green Party
Green MP Ian Ewen-Street today wrote to Jim Sutton and Primary Production Select Committee Chair Damien O'Connor calling for a select committee inquiry into MAF's mismanagement of the painted apple moth in West Auckland. More >>
Health Workers Strike Rally Speech Notes
Monday, 3 December 2001, 4:47 pm | Green Party
Three weeks ago you demonstrated your determination to gain a fair settlement in your campaign for adequate wages and reasonable working conditions. The Green Party supported you then and the Green Party supports you now. More >>
Greens To Abstain On Imprest Supply
Monday, 3 December 2001, 2:32 pm | Green Party
The Green Party has advised the Government that it will abstain in Tuesday's vote on the Imprest Supply Bill. More >>
Green Governance - Coming Soon To A Town Near You!
Monday, 3 December 2001, 10:31 am | Green Party
The theme of this conference 'Green Governance - from Periphery to Power' is still largely a goal rather than the reality. I'm afraid we are some way from achieving green governance at a national level in Aotearoa / New Zealand. More >>
The Greens, Parliament & The Prospect Of Govt
Friday, 30 November 2001, 12:32 am | Green Party
Rod has given you some of our history, described the campaign for proportional representation and outlined some of the changes we would like to make to the processes of governance in the Parliament. More >>
Greens Welcome Aquaculture Moratorium
Thursday, 29 November 2001, 9:17 am | Green Party
Marlborough-based Green MP Ian Ewen-Street today said he was very pleased with the Government announcement of a two year moratorium on future aquaculture developments. More >>
Greens Support Inquiry Into Massacre
Thursday, 29 November 2001, 12:58 am | Green Party
Reports that virtually all the Taliban prisoners held in the Qala-i-Jhangi jail in northern Afghanistan have been killed demand independent investigation, Green Party Foreign Affairs spokesman Keith Locke said today. More >>
Automatic GE Ban Lifting Makes Research Farcical
Wednesday, 28 November 2001, 6:08 pm | Green Party
Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today it was scientifically indefensible that the two year ban on commercial release of GE organisms would be automatically lifted at the end of the period. More >>
Minister takes the bypass
Wednesday, 28 November 2001, 4:59 pm | Green Party
The Minister of Transport has refused today to answer the concerns raised by Green MP Sue Kedgley regarding Wellington's proposed inner city bypass. More >>
MAF must be accountable for spread of moth
Wednesday, 28 November 2001, 4:16 pm | Green Party
Green Biosecurity Spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street today said MAF must be held accountable for the spread of the painted apple moth to the base of the Waitakere Ranges. More >>
Mental Health Services - Bradford Speech
Wednesday, 28 November 2001, 4:15 pm | Green Party
This week in Invercargill we can see unfolding before us yet another chapter in the sorry history of mental health services in this country. More >>
