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Ongoing Environmental Education Support Welcome
Friday, 18 May 2001, 10:11 am | Green Party
Green Party education spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street today welcomed ongoing support in the Budget for a primary and secondary schools' environmental education programme. More >>
Community Internship Initiative A Boost
Friday, 18 May 2001, 10:08 am | Green Party
Voluntary and Community Sector Minister Steve Maharey and Green Party MP Sue Bradford today announced a new pilot Community Internship Programme - one of the Green Party budget initiatives, funded through the Department of Internal Affairs. More >>
Organic gardens for urban school-kids
Friday, 18 May 2001, 10:08 am | Green Party
Green Party co-leader Rod Donald said today that a Green Party budget initiative to establish organic gardens in schools would teach kids that food comes out of the ground, not off a supermarket shelf. More >>
Green Initiatives: Communities & Children Benefit
Friday, 18 May 2001, 10:08 am | Green Party
The Green Party today welcomed the second series of pre-budget announcements of Green initiatives. More >>
Greens Support Bay Of Plenty Regional Bill
Wednesday, 16 May 2001, 6:23 pm | Green Party
Green Party Treaty Issues spokesperson Nandor Tanczos said that Green Party votes would ensure that the Bay of Plenty Regional Council (Maori Constituency Empowering) Bill would pass its second reading today. More >>
Green Amendment Will Call For NZ Housing Strategy
Wednesday, 16 May 2001, 11:32 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Bradford said today she intends calling for a New Zealand Housing Strategy when the Housing Corporation Amendment Bill is debated through its Committee stages at Parliament. More >>
Clothing Workers Victim Of Free Trade Policy
Wednesday, 16 May 2001, 9:33 am | Green Party
The axing of over 80 clothing workers' jobs in Christchurch and Porirua is a direct consequence of successive Governments' free trade policies, the Green Party said today. More >>
Ties To MAF Likely To Compromise New Food Agency
Tuesday, 15 May 2001, 4:52 pm | Green Party
The Green Party welcomes the intention to establish a new Food Administration Agency with its own Minister and budget, but believes it is a serious mistake to attach the new agency to MAF, Safe Food spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today. More >>
Government on Climate Policy: All Words, No Action
Tuesday, 15 May 2001, 2:22 pm | Green Party
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says the Government has failed the first test of its climate policy in action. More >>
Save Heaphy & Hollyford petition launched on track
Monday, 14 May 2001, 3:03 pm | Green Party
Green Party co-convenor Richard Davies begins a three-day walk tomorrow along the Heaphy Track gathering signatures for a nationwide petition opposing the Collingwood-Karamea and Haast-Milford road proposals. More >>
NZ Nuclear Guinea Pig Consent Rejected By Locke
Monday, 14 May 2001, 9:47 am | Green Party
Green Party Veterans Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke today rejected the British Defence Minister's claims that soldiers consented to being exposed to nuclear test fallout in the early 1950s. More >>
Greens Applaud National Park For Stewart Island
Friday, 11 May 2001, 12:39 am | Green Party
Green Party Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has welcomed today's announcement to create New Zealand's fourteenth national park on Stewart Island. More >>
No Compassion On Medicinal Marijuana
Thursday, 10 May 2001, 4:27 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today said New Zealand was lagging far behind the rest of the world in refusing to approve medicinal cannabis for people who genuinely need it and that it was high time we caught up. More >>
Climate Policy In Danger Of Going Up In Smoke
Thursday, 10 May 2001, 4:08 pm | Green Party
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today that Environment Minister Marian Hobbs must use her powers under the Resource Management Act to 'call in' applications to build thermal power stations lodged by Genesis and Contact Energy. More >>
Transit Must Reconsider 'Bypass' After Review
Thursday, 10 May 2001, 2:41 pm | Green Party
Green Transport Spokesperson and former Wellington City Councillor Sue Kedgley today welcomed the release of an independent review of the proposed inner-city 'bypass' and called on the Government to put the $25 million cost of this project into public ... More >>
Green Party Annual Conference In Nelson
Thursday, 10 May 2001, 1:42 pm | Green Party
The Green Party will hold its annual conference over Queen's Birthday weekend at the Tahuna Beach Holiday Park. More >>
Dairy Board Must Guarantee Canola Butter GE Free
Thursday, 10 May 2001, 11:58 am | Green Party
Green Party Safe Food Spokesperson Sue Kedgley called on the New Zealand Dairy Board to reassure New Zealanders that the canola oil it is now adding to spreadable butter was GE free. More >>
TVNZ Charter Should Support Independent News
Thursday, 10 May 2001, 10:01 am | Green Party
The government must make it absolutely clear to the Board of TVNZ that it will not tolerate political interference in any aspect of TVNZ news and current affairs, Green Party Broadcasting spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today. More >>
Will GE cows help multiple sclerosis sufferers?
Wednesday, 9 May 2001, 5:22 pm | Green Party
Last week the High Court ruled that the decision of the Environmental Risk Management Authority on an application by Agresearch to genetically modify cows with a human gene fell "woefully short" of the requirement to state the criteria it ... More >>
Greens Seek Amendments On Telecommunications Bill
Wednesday, 9 May 2001, 3:51 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley today said while the Greens supported the thrust of legislation to regulate telecommunications in New Zealand, it did not go far enough and the party would be moving amendments to strengthen the legislation. More >>
