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Greens Support NZ Taking Refugees From Tampa
Friday, 31 August 2001, 10:48 am | Green Party
Green Immigration spokesperson Keith Locke has backed Helen Clark's offer to take some of the asylum seekers stranded on the ship Tampa off Christmas Island. More >>
Opportunity Missed To Extend Nuclear Free Zone
Friday, 31 August 2001, 12:33 am | Green Party
Green Party Disarmament Spokesperson Keith Locke is disappointed a parliamentary select committee has rejected a Green Party bill seeking to extend New Zealand's nuclear free zone. More >>
Greens welcome gradual greening of Jim Sutton
Thursday, 30 August 2001, 5:51 pm | Green Party
Green Party Agriculture Spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street MP today welcomed the greening of Jim Sutton with his announcement that the Sustainable Farming Fund has allocated around $1 million to organic agriculture projects. More >>
Processed cheese-maker going GE-Free
Wednesday, 29 August 2001, 7:50 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley today welcomed a GE-Free commitment from Pastoral Foods, the makers of the processed cheese at the centre of a GE controversy involving exports to Sri Lanka. More >>
Greens challenge Feds - find GE food people want
Wednesday, 29 August 2001, 7:46 pm | Green Party
Green Agriculture spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street MP today challenged Federated Farmers to identify just one genetically engineered agricultural product in just one of our main export markets for which there is any kind of consumer demand. More >>
Dairy Farmers Must Hurry Up To Clean Up - Greens
Wednesday, 29 August 2001, 2:31 pm | Green Party
Green Agriculture Spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street MP today said dairy farmers must move as quickly as possible to clean up their farming practices, saying the public were increasingly concerned at the impact of dairying on the environment. More >>
Rodney Should Join 'Mayors Taskforce For Jobs'
Wednesday, 29 August 2001, 2:30 pm | Green Party
Green Party Employment spokesperson Sue Bradford today called on Rodney mayor John Law to join the 'Mayors taskforce for jobs', a network which stimulates greater collaboration between mayors on local employment initiatives. More >>
GE Protestors March To Wellington Ends Tomorrow
Wednesday, 29 August 2001, 11:48 am | Green Party
The Palmer-Hesketh family who are walking from Christchurch to Wellington in support of a GE-free Aotearoa will arrive at Parliament tomorrow. More >>
Greens welcome Tegel response to GE concern
Wednesday, 29 August 2001, 8:59 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley today welcomed news that Tegel New Zealand had committed to feeding its chickens on feed free from genetically engineered ingredients. More >>
Greens Challenge Scott To Join GE-Free Marlborough
Tuesday, 28 August 2001, 4:32 pm | Green Party
Green Party Marlborough MP Ian Ewen-Street today challenged local National MP Dr Lynda Scott to join the campaign for Marlborough to become a GE-free zone. More >>
Greens Message: Peace To The West Bank
Tuesday, 28 August 2001, 4:30 pm | Green Party
Green Party Foreign Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke today called on a Parliamentary delegation from Israel to take the road of peace and urge their government to stop military attacks in the West Bank and Gaza. More >>
Consumers Urged To Reject Processed GE Cheese
Tuesday, 28 August 2001, 4:26 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley is calling on Kiwi consumers to send a strong message to the Dairy Board that they don't want processed cheese with GE ingredients in it, after Sri Lanka rejected 20 cartons of New Zealand cheese. More >>
Coromandel Proves Mining Wealth Myth
Tuesday, 28 August 2001, 1:00 pm | Green Party
Green Party Coromandel MP Jeanette Fitzsimons today said people who believed mining was good for local communities should take a look at the poverty, deprivation and high unemployment of the mining town Waihi on the Coromandel Peninsula. More >>
'Buy Local' Bouquets And Brickbats To Councils
Monday, 27 August 2001, 9:45 am | Green Party
The Green Party has launched its 'Councils should buy local' campaign today with bouquets and brickbats for New Zealand's local bodies. More >>
Greens Welcome Offer To Extend GE Moratorium
Monday, 27 August 2001, 12:42 am | Green Party
Co-leader of the Green Party Jeanette Fitzsimons has welcomed the offer from the LifeSciences Network today to extend the voluntary moratorium on applications to release genetically engineered organisms. More >>
Unlabelled GE food gets 12 month reprieve
Sunday, 26 August 2001, 3:37 pm | Green Party
Green Safe Food spokesperson Sue Kedgley is flabbergasted at the cheek of the Australian New Zealand Food Authority in seeking to allow unlabelled GE food to remain on our shelves for a further 12 months. More >>
LifeSciences and Green Party agree on 800km buffer
Friday, 24 August 2001, 2:08 pm | Green Party
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today welcomed comments from LifeSciences Network Chairman William Rolleston that an effective buffer zone between GE and non-GE crops would be 800 km of sea water. More >>
Greens welcome possible Southerner extension
Thursday, 23 August 2001, 6:25 pm | Green Party
The Green Party co-leader Rod Donald today welcomed the possibility that the Southerner train service will run longer than the end of September, and hopefully at least until Christmas. More >>
Greens Call Again For Ban On Californian Grapes
Thursday, 23 August 2001, 4:21 pm | Green Party
Green Party Biosecurity spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street said today that a ban on imported Californian grapes is the only way to deal with the biosecurity hazard they present. More >>
New Report Shows Farmers Swinging Behind Organics
Thursday, 23 August 2001, 2:47 pm | Green Party
Green Party MP and organic farmer Ian Ewen-Street today welcomed a new report which shows that nearly 40 per cent of New Zealand farmers intend to be farming organically in five to 10 years time. More >>
