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Minister Must Back Regional Vocational Education With Real Support
Monday, 14 July 2025, 4:35 pm | Green Party
Polytechs deserve a real plan and real support so that Aotearoa can have a thriving vocational education sector – not the cuts and incoherent omnishambles we’ve had so far, says the Green Party’s tertiary spokesperson, Francisco Hernandez. More >>
Submissions Show Overwhelming Opposition To RSB
Monday, 14 July 2025, 11:14 am | Green Party
Christopher Luxon and his Cabinet should see the writing on the wall here, listen to the people of New Zealand and put a stop to this deeply unpopular legislation, says the Green Party’s Regulation Spokesperson, Francisco Hernandez. More >>
Green Party Won’t Contest Tāmaki Makaurau By-Election
Friday, 11 July 2025, 9:10 am | Green Party
"Our decision not to run a candidate in the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election reflects a combination of factors, most pertinently, the responsible use of our resources at this time," says Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson. More >>
New Study Shows Speed Of Antarctic Ice Melt, Govt Fans Climate Flames
Monday, 7 July 2025, 3:08 pm | Green Party
“This is a clear and urgent signal that the climate crisis is accelerating, and a critical tipping point may have already been passed. It’s not a distant threat to think about somewhere down the line; it’s here,” says the Green Party co-leader ... More >>
Family Boost Announcement Does Little To Boost Families
Monday, 7 July 2025, 10:13 am | Green Party
The Family Boost scheme entirely fails to address the fundamental issue of the profit-driven ECE sector passing on huge costs to parents and the government, with very little transparency about how the funding is used. More >>
Healthy Homes Standards Need More Teeth
Monday, 30 June 2025, 4:31 pm | Green Party
“Healthy Homes standards are only meaningful if they are enforced by a system that is independent and has teeth,” says the Green Party spokesperson for Housing, Tamatha Paul. More >>
Green Party Pays Tribute To Takutai Tarsh Kemp
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 12:21 pm | Green Party
“The Green Party sends love to Takutai’s whānau, and our extended whānau of Te Pāti Māori,” says Marama Davidson on behalf of the Green Party caucus. More >>
Govt Abandons Beyond Oil And Gas Alliance
Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 9:52 am | Green Party
“Luxon’s Government is throwing public money, oil, coal, and gas onto the climate crisis fire. Today they’ve told the world that they don’t care about a stable climate or regular peoples’ lives,” says Green Party co-leader and spokesperson ... More >>
Govt’s $200Million Fossil Fuel Handout In Breach Of Trade Agreement
Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 10:15 am | Green Party
The National Party tell us they’re good economic managers then tank the economy; they tell us they’re committed to our climate commitments then breach those commitments, says the Green Party Climate Change spokesperson and co-leader, Chlöe Swarbrick. More >>
Greens Call On Govt To Condemn US For Attack On Iran
Monday, 23 June 2025, 12:34 pm | Green Party
We are calling on the New Zealand Government to condemn the United States for its attacks on Iran. This attack is a blatant breach of international law and yet another unjustified assault on the Middle East from the US. More >>
ECE Funding Review Must Centre Tamariki
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 2:01 pm | Green Party
“Every child in Aotearoa deserves an education that sets them up for success. That demands an ECE system that places tamariki at its core." More >>
ERA Changes Hurt Workers, Pander To Big Business
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 12:22 pm | Green Party
“This cruel Bill will cut off our most vulnerable workers from the rights that belong to them,” says the Green Party spokesperson for Workplace Relations and Safety, Teanau Tuiono. More >>
Govt’s Private Hospital Contracts Little More Than Band-Aid
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 9:53 am | Green Party
“This is a clear signal from this Government that they have no intention, now or in the future, to properly resource a strong, publicly delivered system,” says the Green Party’s Co-Leader, Marama Davidson. More >>
Greens Show Willis’ Fiscal Straight-Jacket Is Junk, Validate Case For Strong Public Investment
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 7:54 am | Green Party
“Our Fiscal Strategy unpicks the daft ‘computer says no’ argument standing in the way of this critical investment. We show how forty years of bad fiscal programming have produced devastating real-world results as our hospitals, schools and infrastructure ... More >>
Concern Over Signs Govt Will Reduce Sick Leave For Workers
Monday, 16 June 2025, 10:57 am | Green Party
Green Party spokesperson for Workplace Relations, Teanau Tuiono says our economy is built upon the backs of our workers, so to erode their rights to sick leave is nothing short of an attack on the morale and productivity of our workforce. More >>
Biodiversity Credit Won’t Fix Damage Done By Luxon Govt
Thursday, 12 June 2025, 12:24 pm | Green Party
“This is a bandaid on a gaping wound which does nothing to address a deepening crisis and runs the risk of being mere greenwashing,” says the Green Party spokesperson for Agriculture Steve Abel. More >>
New Report Confirms Oranga Tamariki Is Failing Tamariki And Government Is Failing Māori
Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 4:12 pm | Green Party
We cannot continue to repeat history and pave the way for another Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. We cannot let the Government give up on our most vulnerable kids by repeating cycles that have been continuing for generations. More >>
Government Rightfully Sued Over Illegal Climate ‘Plan’
Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 2:08 pm | Green Party
Christopher Luxon has spent the better part of two years telling the country everything is fine while he dismantles effective climate policy, gives handouts to the fossil fuel sector and platforms lobbyist’s pseudoscience on agricultural emissions. More >>
Greens Call For Safe Passage Of Madleen And Government To Sanction Israel
Monday, 9 June 2025, 5:34 pm | Green Party
Weaponising critical humanitarian aid must stop. Shooting at innocent people lining up for kai must stop. Aotearoa New Zealand cannot remain a bystander to the slaughter of innocent people in Gaza. More >>
Rich Get Much Richer, Driving Inequality And Poverty
Monday, 9 June 2025, 1:21 pm | Green Party
“Poverty and homelessness doesn’t come from nowhere. They are created by inequality. Christopher Luxon has put his foot down on the accelerator. By design, the rich are getting much, much richer while the poor are getting much, much poorer," says Chlöe ... More >>
