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Rimu Decision Means 3,500 More Trees Get Chopped
Tuesday, 6 June 2000, 3:05 pm | Green Party
New figures released to the Greens by the Government predict that another 3,523 native trees will be logged by Timberlands after the Government's decision to continue logging until March 2002. More >>
Niche market staring PM in the face - Greens
Tuesday, 6 June 2000, 1:55 pm | Green Party
Green Party Agriculture spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street today said the niche market that the Prime Minister says New Zealand desperately needs is obvious - organics. More >>
Two new convenors elected at Green conference
Tuesday, 6 June 2000, 9:00 am | Green Party
West Coast / Tasman Green Party candidate Richard Davies and Marlborough organic farmer Dr Marg O'Brien were elected as co-convenors of the Green Party at the party's annual conference at Turangi yesterday. More >>
The Greens are Growing - Rod Donald Speech
Tuesday, 6 June 2000, 12:41 am | Green Party
When we met one year ago the election was only six months away. We had selected fewer than 25 candidates, mostly from the South Island; we had no money in the national coffers and very little in electorate kitties; we had under 1,500 members, two not ... More >>
Greens welcome rail line breakthrough in Auckland
Friday, 2 June 2000, 3:09 pm | Green Party
The Green Party has welcomed the Auckland local bodies' agreement with Tranz Rail to allow other operators to have access to the region's railway lines. More >>
Media Advisory Green Party Conference
Friday, 2 June 2000, 2:34 pm | Green Party
The Green Party annual conference starts today in Turangi with the boost of a 60 per cent rise in membership since the last election. More >>
Government must bite the bullet over Christine
Thursday, 1 June 2000, 8:29 pm | Green Party
Green Party Social Services spokesperson Sue Bradford said she was disgusted to learn that WINZ have spent more than $2 million on consultants in the last 10 months and said the Government simply must sack Christine Rankin. More >>
Nutrition funding needed - Greens
Thursday, 1 June 2000, 11:53 am | Green Party
A major increase in funding for health prevention and nutrition will be needed to meet the goals of the Health Strategy released today, Green Party Health spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today. More >>
NZ May Have To Go It Alone On GE Labelling
Wednesday, 31 May 2000, 6:31 pm | Green Party
The Green Party today said New Zealand may have to opt out of the ANZFA Treaty and adopt an independent labelling system for all genetically engineered food. More >>
Right to bail protected
Wednesday, 31 May 2000, 8:44 am | Green Party
An amendment made to the Bail Bill tonight will protect the right to bail of non-violent offenders who have not previously offended while on bail. More >>
Greens Support Contractors' Right To Choose
Tuesday, 30 May 2000, 2:11 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is advocating for the rights of contractors to choose to stay as contractors under the Employment Relations Bill. More >>
Green bill bans nuclear shipments
Friday, 26 May 2000, 10:45 am | Green Party
A Green Party bill which would stop nuclear waste shipments entering New Zealand waters was drawn in the members' ballot yesterday. More >>
Tanczos, Robson to meet over inmate education cuts
Friday, 26 May 2000, 10:44 am | Green Party
Green Party Justice Spokesperson Nandor Tanczos will meet with Corrections Minister Matt Robson next week to discuss Green Party concerns over the cutting of external education to prison inmates. More >>
Greens congratulate Council on regional rail focus
Thursday, 25 May 2000, 4:24 pm | Green Party
Wellington Green Party MP Sue Kedgley congratulated the Wellington City Council for its far sighted decision not to support fast tracking Transmission Gully and focus on upgrading the region's rail system instead. More >>
Fair local elections a step closer
Thursday, 25 May 2000, 4:21 pm | Green Party
A fairer electoral system for local body elections will be debated in Parliament following the selection of the single transferable vote (STV) option bill in today's ballot. More >>
Speech to the Wind Energy Conference
Thursday, 25 May 2000, 3:15 pm | Green Party
Speech to the Wind Energy Conference 2000 Jeanette Fitzsimons Green Party Co-leader 25 May More >>
Greens Reveal Huge Cuts To Inmate Education
Thursday, 25 May 2000, 2:55 pm | Green Party
Green MP Nandor Tanczos today revealed that the Department of Corrections has cut all funding for adult prison inmates to study through the correspondence school or external education institutes. More >>
Law change needed after Nats' Coromandel postcard
Thursday, 25 May 2000, 9:29 am | Green Party
The Green Party has been billed by mistake for postal costs of 25,000 anti-Green pamphlets or postcards published by the National Party and delivered to all Coromandel homes. More >>
Protocol helps avoid GE contamination
Thursday, 25 May 2000, 12:36 am | Green Party
The Cartagena protocol on biosafety, which New Zealand signed last night in Nairobi, is crucial to keeping New Zealand crops free from genetic contamination, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley said today. More >>
Greens mystified by opposition to Matrimonial Bill
Wednesday, 24 May 2000, 10:04 am | Green Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley said she was mystified by the attacks of the National Party, New Zealand First and Act against the new economic disadvantage provisions of the Matrimonial Property Amendment bill. More >>
