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Tanczos agrees with Harré instant fines no answer
Wednesday, 24 January 2001, 1:54 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today said he was delighted to hear the Minister of Youth Affairs saying that replacing current cannabis laws with instant spot fines was not the answer. More >>
Pressure mounts on Govt. to support Green bill
Tuesday, 23 January 2001, 8:55 am | Green Party
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today said pressure was mounting on the Government to match its words with action and support a Green Party bill which would outlaw nuclear shipments from New Zealand's 200 mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ). More >>
Lesson For New Zealand In Californian Power Chaos
Friday, 19 January 2001, 2:48 pm | Green Party
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today said the fact that the Californian State Government was intervening in the region's troubled electricity market showed the clear dangers of electricity deregulation. More >>
MPs To Use Waihopia Protest To Highlight Bill
Friday, 19 January 2001, 12:40 am | Green Party
Green MPs Keith Locke and Rod Donald will be using this year's protest against the Waihopai spy base to advance the Green campaign against a new 'email snooping' bill, currently before select committee. More >>
'Concern' over nuke shipments not enough - Greens
Thursday, 18 January 2001, 11:18 am | Green Party
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said the Government must back up its concern over shipments of nuclear fuel and waste with action and take all steps possible to keep shipments out of New Zealand waters. More >>
Gov't Should Make Superbug A Notifiable Disease
Wednesday, 17 January 2001, 12:38 am | Green Party
Green Party Health spokesperson Sue Kedgley today called for MRSA to be urgently made a notifiable disease as part of a national strategy to contain the superbug explosion. More >>
NZ Must Act On Increasing Nuclear Waste Shipments
Tuesday, 16 January 2001, 2:57 pm | Green Party
Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today urged all New Zealanders to get behind her Nuclear Free Zone Extension Bill as three highly toxic nuclear shipments travel the worlds oceans, with many more predicted. More >>
Consistency on Fiji Army Officers / Sevens tour
Monday, 15 January 2001, 11:22 am | Green Party
Green Party MP Keith Locke has criticised New Zealand's decision to recruit four Fijian army officers and has also urged the Government to follow Australia and withold visas for the Fijian Rugby Sevens side. More >>
Coromandel Power Cuts Could Ruin Christmas Cheer
Friday, 22 December 2000, 3:36 pm | Green Party
Coromandel Green MP Jeanette Fitzsimons wants a guarantee from her local electricity lines company to reimburse any losses suffered by Coromandel businesses from power cuts over the holiday period. More >>
Legal loophole on GE feed for pork and chicken
Thursday, 21 December 2000, 1:45 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley responded to the arrest of four Greenpeace activists today saying that she hoped the protest would bring people's attention to the practice of feeding genetically engineered crops to animals. More >>
Bradford welcomes Parry penalties
Thursday, 21 December 2000, 1:43 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Bradford today welcomed news that Northland gynaecologist had been struck off the medical register and fined for negligent treatment of Colleen Poutsma but said issues of compensation now needed to be addressed. More >>
Telecommunications Concern for Marlborough Sounds
Thursday, 21 December 2000, 1:39 pm | Green Party
Green Party MP Ian Ewen-Street today said he was concerned about the one per cent of the population who will not benefit from the telcommunication reforms, as these people will mainly be in the Marlborough Sounds. More >>
Green Budget Boosts Funds For Environment Centres
Wednesday, 20 December 2000, 1:59 pm | Green Party
Green Party Co-Leader Rod Donald said he was delighted that the $300,000 initiative to fund and set up environment centres as part of the Green Budget Package has come to fruition. More >>
Lower Pesticide Use On The Horizon
Wednesday, 20 December 2000, 1:54 pm | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley today welcomed funding approval for work towards reducing pesticide use, saying the Green initiative would help protect consumers in New Zealand and our clean green image overseas. More >>
Telecom monopoly over local lines should go
Wednesday, 20 December 2000, 1:09 pm | Green Party
The Green's are pushing for Telecom's local line monopoly to be broken up, saying while they support the Government's move to regulate the Telecommunications industry, it doesn't go far enough. More >>
Replacing Privy Council Step Towards Nationhood
Wednesday, 20 December 2000, 9:41 am | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke today welcomed Margaret Wilson's position paper favouring an end to appeals to the Privy Council. More >>
Loss Of Wellington Conservationist A Loss For NZ
Tuesday, 19 December 2000, 11:34 am | Green Party
Green Party MP Jeanette Fitzsimons today said the death of Wellington conservationist Bing Lucas was a major loss to conservation in New Zealand. More >>
GE Standards For Seed Protects NZ's Market Edge
Tuesday, 19 December 2000, 11:01 am | Green Party
The Green Party today said the Government's move to have all imported seeds screened for GE contamination shows how easily our GE-free advantage could be lost. More >>
Hamiltonians pass motion to decriminalise cannabis
Friday, 15 December 2000, 4:40 pm | Green Party
A public meeting in Hamilton last night voted unanimously to support the decriminalisation of cannabis for adults. More >>
Axing Of Fixed Charges Challenge To Industry
Friday, 15 December 2000, 2:58 pm | Green Party
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is hailing the move of Christchurch energy lines company, Orion, to eliminate fixed charges as a long overdue challenge to businesses and the whole energy sector. More >>
