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Additional Funds For Rural Schools Please Greens
Thursday, 29 June 2000, 4:59 pm | Green Party
Green Party Education spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street said today's announcement of an extra $8.6 million for small and rural schools increased Green Party support of the abolition of bulk funding. More >>
Youth MP joins Conservation Minister's team
Thursday, 29 June 2000, 2:50 pm | Green Party
Youth MP joins Conservation Minister's team to propose whale sanctuary at IWC meeting next week More >>
Renewed call for cell phone health warnings
Thursday, 29 June 2000, 11:29 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley today renewed her call for the Government to look at bringing in health warnings on cell phones, following new World Health Organisation recommendations to limit cell phone use. More >>
Balance crucial in employment relations
Thursday, 29 June 2000, 10:07 am | Green Party
The Green Party said today it would aim to protect the needs of workers, small business owners and community organisations in the Employment Relations Bill. More >>
Greens / Govt. reach agreement on cannabis inquiry
Wednesday, 28 June 2000, 4:01 pm | Green Party
The Green Party today said it had reached agreement with Health Minister Annette King on plans for a wide-ranging cannabis inquiry by Parliament's health select committee. More >>
Strong imports show need for buy-local strategy
Wednesday, 28 June 2000, 10:38 am | Green Party
Higher import prices have failed to dampen our insatiable thirst for imports, Green Party co-leader Rod Donald said today. More >>
NZ pushes for loopholes in Kyoto protocol
Tuesday, 27 June 2000, 5:11 pm | Green Party
New Zealand is pushing to maximise loopholes in the Kyoto climate change protocol that would allow industrialised countries to avoid cutting fossil fuel emissions by planting trees, says Jeanette Fitzsimons, Green Party Co-Leader. More >>
Greens to support urgency over ERB
Friday, 23 June 2000, 10:45 am | Green Party
The Green Party has agreed to support Labour's request for urgency on the Employment Relations Bill. More >>
Foreign investment highlights the organic advantag
Wednesday, 21 June 2000, 5:55 pm | Green Party
Green Party Agriculture spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street today said it was encouraging that foreign nations were recognising the obvious benefits of producing organic food in New Zealand. More >>
Budget doesn’t tackle BOP crisis - Rod Donald
Tuesday, 20 June 2000, 7:37 pm | Green Party
The first budget of the new Labour led Government represents a turning point for New Zealand. While the budget isn’t perfect it is at least heading in the right direction in many respects and is a marked contrast to National’s nine disastrous efforts. More >>
Response to WINZ report on the right track
Tuesday, 20 June 2000, 5:21 pm | Green Party
Green Party Social Services spokesperson Sue Bradford today said that, while she still had concerns, the Government's response to the Hunn Report into WINZ was on the right track. More >>
Greens Barking Up The Wrong Tree: Sutton
Tuesday, 20 June 2000, 10:59 am | Green Party
Trade NZ's commercial contract with Lifesciences Network was an operational matter, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today. More >>
ANZFA assurances over GE-Food meaningless
Tuesday, 20 June 2000, 9:17 am | Green Party
Assurances from the Australia New Zealand Food Authority that five genetically engineered foods on our shelves are safe are meaningless given that no long-term safety testing has been conducted on them, said Green Party health spokesperson Sue Kedgley. More >>
Business as usual for defence brass
Monday, 19 June 2000, 4:46 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke has criticised a government defence framework issued today for not tackling the air and naval combat issues. More >>
Nation unites behind the organic vision
Monday, 19 June 2000, 4:01 pm | Green Party
Green Party MP and organic farmer Ian Ewen-Street said he was delighted with the results of a survey showing over 70 per cent of New Zealanders believe the future of agriculture lies in organics. More >>
Trade officials and diplomats in pro-GE campaign
Monday, 19 June 2000, 10:51 am | Green Party
New Zealand trade officials and diplomats are taking part in a pro-GE campaign aimed at influencing the outcome of the Royal Commission on Genetic Engineering, Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today. More >>
Action on Environmental Education
Friday, 16 June 2000, 9:56 am | Green Party
Schools will be helped to integrate environmental education into the curriculum by a $250,000 fund negotiated between Education Minister Trevor Mallard and the Green Party. More >>
First step towards complementary therapy
Friday, 16 June 2000, 9:54 am | Green Party
The Green Party has taken the first step towards integrating complementary healthcare into the health system, with a proposal to fund a Ministerial Advisory Committee on Complementary Healthcare. More >>
Work to start on pesticide reduction
Friday, 16 June 2000, 9:52 am | Green Party
A $235,000 initiative to begin work on a pesticide reduction programme has been agreed with the Minister of the Environment as part of the Green Budget Package announced today. More >>
Environment Centres acknowledged in Green budget
Friday, 16 June 2000, 9:50 am | Green Party
Green Party Co-Leader Rod Donald said the $300,000 initiative to fund environment centres as part of the Green Budget Package was acknowledgment of the important service they provide to the community. More >>
