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Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke is disappointed that the Aviation Security Bill, as reported back from the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee, would still allow armed air marshals on planes flying in and out of New ... More >>
The Green Party has complained about what it believes is misleading advertising and a failure to warn investors of the financial risks in a private South Island coal mine. More >>
Green Party MP Metiria Turei has denounced the Howard's government's emergency use of force against Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, and called for international solidarity with planned protest action by Aboriginal activists against ... More >>
The Green Party has welcomed the NZ Superannuation Fund Guardians’ decision to review their responsible investment framework as revealed in their 2007/2008 Statement of Intent tabled in Parliament today. More >>
The Green Party has welcomed the NZ Superannuation Fund Guardians’ decision to review their responsible investment framework as revealed in their 2007/2008 Statement of Intent tabled in Parliament today. More >>
Note to news editors: This is amended and re-issued after advice from Solid Energy’s lawyers that they did not receive the legal information in paragraph two. More >>
The Greens are calling on the Government to urgently review current regulations governing the use of aspartame, following the release of a new three year study linking regular use of the sweetener with increased incidence of leukaemia, lymphoma and breast cancer ... More >>
The former patients whose stories made such harrowing reading in today's Report of the Confidential Forum should get an apology and compensation similar to that awarded to former Lake Alice patients who suffered abuse, the Green Party says. More >>
The Green Party is disappointed by moves to ban benzylpiperazine (BZP) announced by the Government today. "The move to prohibition is foolhardy and unfortunate and force an illegal market," Green Party Drug Law Reform Spokesperson Metiria Turei ... More >>
Today's current account figures show that New Zealand's overseas debt continues to increase at an alarming rate, financed in large part by short term speculative inflows, exposing us to a serious risk of currency collapse if the dollar turns down. More >>
The Green Party is appalled to learn that Solid Energy's paid informant inside the protest group Save Happy Valley gained access to the group's confidential legal information in the court case that Solid Energy is taking against Save Happy Valley. More >>
A joint campaign by the country's two largest grocery retailers to reduce plastic bag use by 20 per cent is being welcomed by the Green Party. "This is a very useful step forward in reducing the huge amount of plastic bags we use everyday," Green ... More >>
The Green Party has rejected the latest round of calls for delay from Business New Zealand about the nation's response to climate change, and has criticised the business lobby's readiness to let the taxpayer pick up the compliance tab for our Kyoto commitments. More >>
The Green Party is pleased that organic bread has been exempted from a new standard requiring mandatory fortification of bread with folic acid More >>
Changes to the tenure review process to protect iconic New Zealand landscapes are being welcomed by the Green Party. "No one wants to lose large areas of lakefront to rampant development, and the Government's decision to halt talks with run holders ... More >>
The Green Party is questioning whether David Bain would be able to get a fair trial following the decision by Crown Law today to retry the case. "It seems doubtful that he could get a fair trial after all this time and public interest. Everyone in New ... More >>
The case of a Wellington woman who became seriously unwell after consuming excessive amounts of the controversial additive aspartame in chewing gum underlines the urgent need for consumer information and warnings about potential side effects, Green Party ... More >>
Green Party MP Sue Bradford has announced she will be putting forward a Bill - the Civics Education and Voting Age Bill - in the next Parliamentary private members ballot, to lower the voting age. More >>
The Green Party is calling on Finance Minister Michael Cullen to appoint at least one independent expert on responsible investment to the Government working party designing the responsible investment disclosure requirements for KiwiSaver providers. More >>
The Green Party is urging New Zealand to follow the European Parliament and ban the import and manufacture of products that use cat and dog fur. More >>
Further disturbing allegations about loan sharks operating within casinos have shown the need for a much stronger net than the Government's new so-called 'get tough' crack-down. More >>
It is time for those who govern New Zealand to “take another cup of tea” and reconsider before selling more of the country’s infrastructure, Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says. More >>
The Green Party today welcomed moves by the Fisheries Ministry to raise the penalties for the overfishing of valuable fish species by the commercial fishing industry, and has also urged Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton to lower the quota levels on some ... More >>
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama will be attending the Green Party caucus tomorrow between 10:30 - 11 am. Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke says the visit by the Dalai Lama is an honour, and the party caucus is very much looking forward ... More >>
The Green Party supports the call by the Reserve Bank for the Government to consider measures to stabilise the housing market. More >>
The Waitangi Tribunal's condemnation of both the Office of Treaty Settlements and the Government process for Treaty settlements merely echoes the views held by Maori for many years, Green Party Maori Affairs Spokesperson Metiria Turei says. More >>
Green Co-Leader Dr. Russel Norman will use his speech today to a forum on electoral finance law to call for a citizens’ assembly to decide on new electoral finance laws. The all day forum at Victoria University in Wellington is organised by Transparency ... More >>
Green Co-Leader Dr. Russel Norman will use his speech today to a forum on electoral finance law to call for a citizens’ assembly to decide on new electoral finance laws. The all day forum at Victoria University in Wellington is organised by Transparency ... More >>
The Green Party is asking the Minister of Corrections to clarify what traffic safety advice, if any, he relied upon before making his decision to shackle all prisoners during transportation. More >>
The Green Party is concerned that the Ministry of Health's response to toxic toothpaste on sale in New Zealand is inadequate. More >>
The Green Party is pleased the Government is taking the option of a marine mammal sanctuary seriously as it completes its final draft of the Hectors Dolphins Threat Reduction strategy, the Greens' Conservation and Fisheries Spokesperson Metiria Turei ... More >>
The adoption of new rules in the EU allowing low level accidental GE contamination of organic food creates an economic opportunity for New Zealand to sell its organic produce in Europe as genuinely GE Free says the Green Party. More >>
The adoption of new rules in the EU allowing low level accidental GE contamination of organic food creates an economic opportunity for New Zealand to sell its organic produce in Europe as genuinely GE Free says the Green Party. More >>
The Green Party has criticised the Government for equivocating about whether nor not the Prime Minister will meet the Dalai Lama when he visits Wellington next Tuesday. More >>
The Government's response to the Ombudsman's Report may put prisoners more at risk of injury, Green Party Justice Spokesperson Nandor Tanczos says. More >>
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons will be in Auckland this week leading the Greens' Climate Defence Tour. Ms Fitzsimons will host a public meeting and a local action workshop discussing what local communities can do about climate change in ... More >>
The Green Party is delighted that its years of campaigning and its cooperation agreement with the Government have helped secure the introduction of new rules that require schools to sell only healthy food and drink to students. More >>
The Green Party is welcoming the Government's strong public statement of support for the Waste Minimisation Bill today during the announcement of the results of the New Zealand Waste Strategy 2006 Review of Progress. More >>
Telecom New Zealand will today file documents at the New Zealand High Court in relation to its intention to return around NZ$1.1b of capital to shareholders by way of a Court and shareholder approved Scheme of Arrangement. More >>
Wellington-based Green MP Sue Kedgley is rapt the Wellington City Council has accepted the challenge of becoming a carbon neutral city, and eagerly anticipates the strong focus on public transport and electrification this will inevitably bring. More >>
The Green Party has welcomed the proposal from Forest and Bird to establish a marine mammal sanctuary along the west coast of the North Island to protect the critically endangered Maui dolphin, and is calling on the Government to urgently back the proposal. More >>
The Green Party is celebrating the 20th anniversary of New Zealand's Nuclear Free Legislation, but says there is still a lot to do. "Twenty years ago we were the mouse that roared, and this helped inspire other nations to set up nuclear-free zones, ... More >>
A huge opportunity to make a real impact on global climate change has been missed thanks to the United States' continued refusal to commit to binding greenhouse gas emissions targets at the G8 meeting, the Green Party says. More >>
Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman is presenting a petition to Parliament tomorrow - the 20th anniversary of nuclear free laws - calling for the Government to stop investing money in nuclear weapons. More >>
Dunedin-based Green MP Metiria Turei has welcomed the opening tomorrow near Lumsden of Meridian Energy's White Hill Wind Farm, whose 58MW output will be sufficient to provide power for the entire 30,000 homes in the Southland - Invercargill region. More >>
No-one knows what percentage of New Zealand’s towns and cities is owned by foreigners, says Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman. More >>
The Green Party is delighted the world class Karori Wildlife Sanctuary will receive a funding boost, following the announcement from the Government. "The Karori Sanctuary is an incredible asset to Wellington, to the region and to New Zealand," says Green ... More >>
The Green Party is calling for the Central Plains Water's problem-plagued scheme to be halted immediately so that it can be properly reviewed. This project, which aims to boost dairying in Canterbury, is going to have wide-ranging, irreversible ... More >>
The Green Party is alarmed by reports of censorship of state funded research that appears to have become the victim of political interference. More >>
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has put some hard questions to both the Labour and National parties in her speech to members at the Green's Annual General Meeting in Nelson this morning. More >>
Green Co-Leader, Dr. Russel Norman, used his speech to 150 members and guests at the annual Green Party conference today to promote a new kind of globalisation, green globalisation, which engages in sustainable trade but also builds our own national ... More >>
The Green Party today strongly supported the call by the Chairman of the Wellington Regional Council to spend a significant amount of the proposed regional fuel tax upgrading the ailing rail network in the Wellington Region. More >>
The Green Party is outraged that Auckland City Council has chosen to protect its dividend from Metrowater by letting sewage flow into Auckland harbours for an additional six years. More >>
New Zealand should send frigates, if necessary, to dissuade Japan from slaughtering humpback whales, the Green Party says. Talks between New Zealand, Australia and Japan this morning, at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, ... More >>
The Green Party has welcomed Fonterra's plan to help bring about behavioural change among those dairy farmers who persist in flouting their RMA consent conditions and thus increase the pollution of the country's waterways. More >>
The Green Party wants a full and public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman in Auckland, following the mercenary decision of a power company to cut off electricity providing life-supporting oxygen. More >>
The Green Party is welcoming today's announced changes to the NCEA qualification system. By providing students with the chance to be recognised for their whole year's work with a 'merit' or 'excellence' the Ministry of Education is wisely responding ... More >>
Prime Minister Helen Clark’s confirmation that agents of Solid Energy have been spying on peaceful protestors raises huge questions about other state-owned entities, says Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman. Because of the Green Partys’ areas of interests ... More >>
The Environmental Risk Management Authority's (ERMA) decision to allow field testing of genetically engineered brassica crops risks sending good money after bad, with no chance that the New Zealand public will ever agree to eat this plant or have it ... More >>
The Green Party has welcomed reports that Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is attending a conference in New Zealand that is promoting religious and cultural tolerance and understanding. More >>
For the third year running the Green Party school lunch survey has found that sausage rolls, hot dogs, pies, biscuits and other sugary, fatty foods are still the staple food on offer in New Zealand schools, despite increased awareness of the dangers ... More >>
Dairy companies, rather than the taxpayer, should be responsible for a more than half a billion dollar bill for carbon credits to cover ballooning greenhouse emissions coming out of an ever-expanding industrial dairy sector, says the Green Party. More >>
The Green Party says its time the Government took urgent action to reduce children's exposure to controversial additives like sodium benzoate, which is widely used in children's food and drink. More >>
‘Heads should roll’ in the state-owned enterprise (SOE) Solid Energy if claims made in today’s Sunday Star Times are true, Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says. More >>
A supermarket campaign aimed at getting consumers to cut down on plastic bag use has failed its first test with staff following through only one-quarter of the time, the Green Party says. More >>
The Green Party is welcoming a review of transport priorities but is urging those involved to ensure that it leads to a better balance of spending between public transport and new roads. More >>
The Green Party says it is astounded by Peter Dunne's assertion that there is no need for additional funding via a regional fuel tax for public transport in the Wellington region. More >>
Fonterra's forecast of a $5.53 per kilogram payout for the 2007-2008 season, means now is a good time for farmers to invest in sustainability, the Green Party says. More >>
Fonterra's forecast of a $5.53 per kilogram payout for the 2007-2008 season, means now is a good time for farmers to invest in sustainability, the Green Party says. The forecast payout is up $1.18 per kg on last year, and means an extra $1.5 billion ... More >>
The Buy Kiwi Made campaign has got behind New Zealand's Olympic team by promoting the fact that the athletes and officials will be wearing New Zealand made uniforms, Government Spokesperson on Buy Kiwi Made, Sue Bradford says. More >>
The fisheries Quota Management System has been a failure and the 20th anniversary of its introduction should not be a time of celebration, the Green Party says. More >>
Amnesty International's critical report should inspire New Zealand to improve its human rights record, the Green Party says. "The best way that New Zealand can punch above its weight internationally on human rights is by seeking to act jointly with ... More >>
The Green Party has condemned both Dr Michael Cullen's admission in the House today that the Government currently has $115 million invested in Sky City Entertainment Group, and his refusal to consider funding problem gambling organizations at the ... More >>
Closer monitoring is needed of “gradual foreign control” of New Zealand’s core tourism sites, says Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman. More >>
Revelations that global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are growing faster than ever has cemented the need for this Government to take action this year on climate change, the Green Party says. More >>
"There's little to celebrate on today's International Day for Biological Diversity, given that global warming is causing massive species extinction, fish stocks could be exhausted in our lifetime and Japan now wants to include the endangered humpback ... More >>
The Green Party says the decision by West Coast District Health Board and Counties-Manakau DHB to suspend health workers striking over the lab workers' dispute is punitive, and will only entrench positions on both sides of this rapidly escalating conflict ... More >>
It is time road users realised that they are the main beneficiaries of investment in public transport, especially rail, the Green Party says. The Road Transport Forum and Federated Farmers cannot operate in a bubble, Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said ... More >>
The Green Party has called for Government to mount an inquiry into the privacy concerns raised by Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff about the oversight of public and private databases that contain information on New Zealand citizens, Green Party Human Rights ... More >>
The fact that those on the top 39c tax rate can take advantage of the corporate tax cut, divert money into portfolio investment entities and reap a considerable tax advantage at 30 cents in the dollar is merely one example of the basic unfairness ... More >>
The Greens will be pushing during the fine tuning by Parliament of the new petrol tax for the revenues to be put towards rail electrification and related public transport projects - and it will be urging that none of it should be going into new roads, ... More >>
The Green Party is calling for increased funding for counselling services and further research in the wake of a new study showing a link between the use of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants and self harm. More >>
The Government has finally buckled to Green pressure to make KiwiSaver providers disclose their approach to ethical investing, although it has not stopped the New Zealand Super Fund from investing in nuclear weapons manufacture. More >>
Ever since the Prime Minister declared an aspiration for New Zealand to become carbon neutral and truly sustainable, the nation has been waiting for the means to this end to be revealed and to be funded. More >>
The Government has finally buckled to Green pressure to make KiwiSaver providers disclose their approach to ethical investing, although it has not stopped the New Zealand Super Fund from investing in nuclear weapons manufacture. More >>
The Labour Government's 2007 Budget smacks of 'greenwash', with the only concessions to carbon neutrality and sustainability stemming from pressure from the Green Party, Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says. More >>
The new draft Tourism Strategy released today reinforces the underlying fact that lack of action on reducing our greenhouse emissions and cleaning up our polluted rivers is a significant threat to our single largest export industry - tourism. More >>
A new report shows why it is vital to link company tax cuts in the Budget to energy efficiency investments and other sustainability measures taken by companies, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says. More >>
I move that the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Bill be now read a third time. More >>
The Green Party today confirmed its support for the Fisheries Amendment Bill which will give the Minister of Fisheries a clear power to make fisheries decisions in favour of sustainability. More >>
The Green Party has welcomed the increase of New Zealand's overseas aid beyond what was projected in last year's Budget. "What had been projected previously was a measly increase, from 0.27 percent to 0.28 percent of Gross National Income (GNI). It is ... More >>
The Green Party is calling for veterans who participated in Operation Grapple to be compensated for genetic damage, and for their children to be tested to see if genetic damage has been passed on. More >>
A number of criminal convictions, such as Scott Watson, Peter Ellis and John Barlow, need to be reviewed following the Privy Council decision on the Bain cases, Green Justice Spokesperson Nandor Tanczos says. More >>
"No-one currently in Parliament will be there to take responsibility if John Key's '50 by 50' target on climate change is not achieved. It is a 'do nothing' recipe for the next few decades, by which time climate change will be unstoppable," ... More >>
Green Party Racing spokesperson Sue Bradford welcomes Winston Peters' pre-Budget announcement of a $1 million fund to improve racecourse facilities, but says more support is needed from Government and the racing industry to save many small clubs. More >>
The Green Party is renewing the call for an independent Criminal Appeals Review office following the Privy Council quashing of David Bain's convictions for the murder of his family. More >>
Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says she is delighted that a Wellington icon has been saved and that Wellingtonians will soon have a modern fleet of trolley buses to ride around in. More >>
The Government must confront the worsening situation in New Zealand ambulance services which has reached a new low, with around 70 percent of all emergency call outs in the Central District being responded to by single crewed ambulances over recent months, ... More >>
Green MP Metiria Turei is pleased to see an improvement in facilities, but saddened at the continued need to build more and more prisons after attending the opening of the Otago Correction Facility in Milton today. More >>
The Green Party has welcomed the news that the Police have now decided to use common sense, exercise their discretion and drop their prosecution of sacked Subway worker Jackie Lang, Greens Industrial Relations Spokesperson Sue Bradford says. More >>
The Green Party is urging the Government to fund a proposal by surgeons which could save hundreds of lives by reducing fatal errors in the operating theatre. The Royal College of Surgeons wants funding to set up national audits of its operating systems, ... More >>
The Green Party has announced that Iona Pannett, the party’s spokesperson for Wellington City, will stand for the City Council’s Lambton Ward in this year’s local body elections. More >>
The Howard government is providing an example of unsustainable economic management by using the income generated by mining royalties in order to pay for tax cuts, and the National Party Finance Spokesperson Bill English is wrong to think that is a ... More >>
The latest New Zealand On Air local content television survey, showing that the number of hours of New Zealand programmes on TV One and 2 continued to decline last year, is an indictment of current broadcasting policy, Green Party Broadcasting Spokesperson ... More >>
"It is great to see the Government has adopted so much of the Green Party's climate change policy in its plan for a carbon trading scheme, but disappointing that it will take so long for any real action to happen, Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons ... More >>
The Fair Trade Association and the Green Party Present "Black Gold" As part of Fair Trade Fortnight (28 April - 13 May), The Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand (FTAANZ) and the Green Party are co-hosting a special one-off screening ... More >>
Renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and potentially tidal and wave, offer a safe and climate friendly energy future to New Zealand says the Green Party. There is absolutely no need for us to use nuclear power which is ... More >>
Green Party MP Keith Locke welcomed Cabinet's decision to scrap the sedition laws, which Prime Minister Helen Clark said today were out of date, given that in her view any offences within its ambit could now be prosecuted under other laws. More >>
Renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and potentially tidal and wave, offer a safe and climate friendly energy future to New Zealand says the Green Party. There is absolutely no need for us to use nuclear power which is ... More >>
This year’s successful Budget bid for freshwater conservation will do much to enhance the ecological restoration of three of New Zealand’s foremost wetlands, the Green Party announced today. More >>
The Green Party is calling on the Government to get serious about reducing our greenhouse emissions in light of the big increase in emissions revealed today. It is time to try a new approach – let the polluter pay – and in that way create economic signals ... More >>
The Green Party is asking where is the accountability in Timberlands and Government after it was revealed that Timberlands had failed to grow sufficient plantation timber to meet the needs of the West Coast sawmilling industry, and that lumber was being ... More >>
The melamine contamination scare has highlighted that the New Zealand Food Safety Authority needs to undertake regular testing of imported foods, particularly those coming from China, the Green Party says. More >>
Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says the admission by St Johns Ambulance that up to 60,000 ambulance callouts a year may be single crewed is staggering, and urgent action is needed to put mandatory standards in place within the ambulance ... More >>
The just-released Otago University study of 412 homes that has made a direct link between cold housing and ill health in children demonstrates once again the need for tighter controls on the quality of rental housing in this country, Green Party ... More >>
A report from the New Zealand Ambulance Association shows that lives are being put at risk around the country by the widespread use of single crewed ambulances to respond to emergencies, Green Health spokesperson Sue Kedgley says. More >>
Green MP Sue Kedgley welcomed the announcement today that an agreement has been reached between major broadcasters and the Government, aimed at reducing advertising of unhealthy food to children. More >>
Urgent measures such as electronic prescribing, mandatory reporting of adverse pharmaceutical events and much more careful medicines management are essential to reduce the unacceptably large numbers of New Zealanders being harmed by pharmaceuticals, the Green Party ... More >>
Today is a great day for New Zealand's children, who will soon be afforded the same protection from violence that adults are, the Green Party says. Both Labour and National put aside petty politics and have come together to support Sue Bradford's Crimes ... More >>
The Green Party has welcomed Labour's proposal for a select committee inquiry into monetary policy but says that we can act right now to take some of the heat out of the housing market by limiting the sale of land to New Zealand citizens and residents. More >>
Action now, say petitioners on Auckland’s rail system More >>
The Green Party is welcoming the launch of the Fair Trade Fortnight (28th April – 13th May) to promote fairly traded products that make a positive contribution to the communities in developing countries that produce them. More >>
The Green Party has reacted with shock at the decision of Fisher and Paykel to close its Auckland washing machine manufacturing plant and shift production to Thailand. More >>
Green Party MP Keith Locke and United Future leader Hon Peter Dunne today presented to Internal Affairs Minister Rick Barker a joint letter outlining their concerns about the restrictions contained in the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships ... More >>
Any attempt to use a regional petrol tax to fund yet more state highways would further unbalance Auckland's transport infrastructure, Green Party Co-Leader Jeannette Fitzsimons says. More >>
Green Party MP Sue Bradford welcomed the chance to talk face to face with National Party leader John Key today, and also the fact that he'd clearly put time into trying to think of changes that might mean National could support the bill. More >>
It is becoming increasingly urgent that the Government uses tools at its disposal to stabilise the booming housing market rather than relying on the blunt instrument of interest rates says the Green Party following the raising of the official cash ... More >>
The Green Party has welcoming the Minister of Energy's commitment today to a price on carbon across the whole economy and all greenhouse gases. More >>
The Green Party is calling on the government to consider measures directly focused on stabilising the booming housing market as a way to increase savings and reduce the high overseas debt identified as a significant concern in the OECD report released ... More >>
The Greens are urging Auckland councils to hold the line against property developers’ calls for more urban sprawl, and instead keep pushing central Government for the funds for the electrification of the Auckland rail network with the associated increase ... More >>
Green Party MP Keith Locke, the Greens' Spokesperson on Auckland transport issues, has welcomed a report by officials on the future of Auckland's transport system, and strongly supports taking the "rapid growth" track for public transport ... More >>
Shoppers and café goers in Titirangi were visited by the Waste Monster on Sunday 22 April, as Greens in West Auckland, like others around the country, made waste the theme of this year’s Earth Day. More >>
This Sunday Green Party Spokesperson on Waste Nandor Tanczos will take part in an art installation in Wellington's Civic Square that will demonstrate the answer to that question. More >>
Green Party MP Sue Bradford is pleased that National Party leader John Key has dropped his insistence on pre-conditions, and has agreed to meet with her on Anzac Day to discuss her s59 repeal Bill. More >>
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons agreed today with claims by National Party MP Nick Smith that current Government estimates of the price of carbon were too low, adding that this underlined the need to ensure that polluters pay for the cost of ... More >>
The Green Party today released its proposals for campaign finance reform (attached). These proposals seek to limit the influence on money on the democratic process to ensure that we have a real democracy not a dollar democracy. More >>
Repeated calls to Food Standards Australia New Zealand for it to withdraw its approval of a potentially harmful genetically modified Monsanto corn have gone unanswered, so today the Green Party decided to shout louder in the form of a giant open letter. More >>
Green MP Keith Locke is mourning the death of Nagasaki mayor, Iccho Ito, a long time campaigner for nuclear disarmament, who died this morning after being struck by an assassin's bullet last night. More >>
Green Party MP Sue Bradford expressed disappointment that National Party leader John Key may have effectively torpedoed the proposed talks on S59 by insisting that she must agree beforehand to change her Bill to reflect his point of view. More >>
Green Party MP Sue Bradford confirmed today that National Party leader John Key had agreed to meet with her sometime next week to discuss her s59 repeal Bill. More >>
The Green Party is calling on the ANZ bank to withdraw from the business of financing the destruction of tropical rainforests in Papua New Guinea. More >>
Green Party MP Sue Bradford today welcomed National Party leader John Key's offer to play a constructive role in the debate over her s59 repeal Bill, and is offering to attend the National party caucus to discuss any issues that Mr Key and his colleagues ... More >>
"Cases like that of Cheyenne Tonihi - who had her four day old baby taken from her- highlight the barbarism of a justice system which separates babies from their mothers and prefers to see the mother receive grief counselling and antidepressants rather ... More >>
The Greens are calling on the Government to fast track the electrification of the Auckland rail network in order to reduce our national greenhouse emissions by more than 230,000 tonnes per year, and in the process reduce the bill to all taxpayers ... More >>
If TVNZ is to retain any semblance of being a public service broadcaster, the Government has to stop pillaging TVNZ's accounts every year and allow it to invest in the staff and resources needed for it to become a genuine public service broadcaster, Green ... More >>
The Green Party is repeating its call for mandatory reporting and publication of all adverse events in New Zealand hospitals in the wake of the Health and Disability Commissioner's hard-hitting report into system failures at Capital and Coast District ... More >>
Whittaker's Peanut Slabs, LWR's Southern Alp Socks, Pink Batts(r) and The Beautiful Box Company have one thing in common - they're all Kiwi Made. These well-known national brands are featured as part of the Christchurch New Zealand Made Showcase that will ... More >>
Whittaker's Peanut Slabs, Norsewear Farm Fleck Socks, Resene Paint and McKinlays Shoes have one thing in common - they're all Kiwi Made. These well-known national brands are featured as part of the Dunedin New Zealand Made Showcase which will be ... More >>
The Wellington’s City Council radical plan to create bus lanes on most key bus routes the city has been welcomed by the Green Party. The Council will decide whether to go ahead with the plan next week. More >>
Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke welcomed the release on bail of Thomas Yadegary, an Iranian who has been held for nearly two and half years without charge in Mt Eden jail, since being arrested on 1 November 2004. More >>
Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson MP Keith Locke today supported the call by Law Commission president Sir Geoffrey Palmer to scrap New Zealand laws on sedition. More >>
The lack of any real Government action on Climate Change and other major environmental issues has left New Zealand with a less than satisfactory report card from the OECD, and vindicates a number of concerns raised by the Green Party for some time. More >>
Today's announcement of 140 job losses in Christchurch is a bitter blow for the workers concerned and for the Canterbury regional economy according to Green Party Economic Development Spokesperson Sue Bradford. More >>
The fishing industry has won a battle of smoke and mirrors by getting Government to agree to their self-imposed bottom trawling protection areas, while leaving them free to pillage the locations of most value, the Green Party says. More >>
Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke has called on the Government to announce a clear timetable for how it plans to meet the UN target for development aid of .7 percent of GNI by 2015. More >>
The admission today from Biosecurity Minister Jim Anderton that he has no idea how many fumigation facilities using the highly toxic gas methyl bromide are situated near schools is extraordinary, the Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says. More >>
Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley has welcomed the decision by food safety authorities to finally heed the call to exempt organic breads from mandatory fortification with folic acid. More >>
A sustained effort is needed to restore credibility and confidence in the police as a result of the uncovering of an historic culture of abuse and violence in certain sections of the police force, the Green Party says. More >>
The Government's decision not to pick up the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Bill will give opponents more time to further their misinformation campaign, but the Bill's sponsor Green Party MP is confident it will get through in the end. More >>
John Key's announcement today that the National Party would introduce national standards for primary and intermediate school children and test all children according to these standards, is a cheap policy based on a flawed analysis of why some children do not ... More >>
New Zealand's fishing industry is facing major challenges and it must get real on sustainability or there will be nothing left to catch, Green Party Fisheries Spokesperson Metiria Turei told the 2nd Annual Maori Fisheries Conference in Napier today. More >>
Green Party MP Sue Kedgley today lodged two complaints with the Commerce Commission, alleging that consumers are being misled by product labelling on imported produce. More >>
Employers have been advised by the Green Party not to try and circumvent this year's minimum wage increase as some tried to do last year. More >>
There is an urgent need to electrify Auckland rail. The system is based on old, polluting diesel trains, bursting at the seams at rush hour. The Prime Minister has supported the idea of electrifying the Auckland rail system, but real commitment is needed ... More >>
The Green Party is calling on the Wellington City Council to improve bus travel times through the city by closing Courtenay Place to all traffic except buses, emergency vehicles and taxis at peak times More >>
The Green Party has welcomed the decision of the three Auckland DHBs to award an interim contract for Auckland's laboratory services to Diagnostic Medlab, the current provider. More >>
The Greens are rapt that plastic shopping bags are being bagged all over the country. Spokesperson on Waste Minimisation Nandor Tanczos is welcoming announcements from major retailers that are taking action to reduce the use of plastic bags, following ... More >>
A new study by Canterbury University researchers for Land Transport New Zealand has added to the case for the electrification of the Auckland rail network, says the Green Party, and it’s time the Government agreed to partially fund the project. More >>
The Finance Minister needs to step in to slow down lending by the foreign owned banks into the overcooked housing market, says the Green Party, as this lending is exacerbating the already disastrous current account deficit as well as making home ownership unaffordable ... More >>
Fumigation with the highly toxic gas methyl bromide should not be allowed in any urban or residential areas, in the wake of findings that Nelson residents may have been exposed to dangerous levels of the highly toxic gas, Green Party Health Spokesperson ... More >>
Green Party MP Sue Bradford today welcomed the support being expressed for her s59 repeal Bill by a group of prominent New Zealand citizens, all of whom have put their names to a banner presented to a group of MPs at Parliament at 3:30pm this afternoon. More >>
The Ribena case raises serious questions about the New Zealand Food Safety Authority's role in ensuring consumers are not being misled, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says. More >>
The Green Party fully supports the efforts today by students around the country opposing the now $9 billion student loan debt in an attempt to expose the ludicrous situation now faced by so many young people. More >>
Data released today showing the extent of the crippling housing affordability crisis is no surprise to people trying to get into the housing market and adds to the urgent need for the government to introduce a range of measures to address the underlying ... More >>
Green Party Police Spokesperson Keith Locke is asking the Police to admit responsibility for wrongly stopping an accredited parliamentary press gallery journalist from doing his job at a media event in the Beehive. More >>
Green Party MP Sue Kedgley will make a submission to the Government and Administration Committee today, opposing the Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill. More >>
The Green Party today welcomed the news that the Government has finally agreed to offer health support to dioxin sufferers in New Plymouth. More >>
Last night’s exclusion of an accredited journalist from a Beehive photo opportunity with the Michael Cullen and the Deputy Premier of China Zeng Peiyan, because Chinese officials thought the journalist was a “problem”, shows that the Government is ... More >>
The reported health effects from solvent-treated timber confirm the need for New Zealand to diversify its forestry, and to ensure more planting of species that do not require chemical treatment, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons. More >>
The Environmental Risk Management Authority's announcement that it is to reassess endosulfan has been welcomed by the Green Party, but its omission of other dangerous substances raises concerns. More >>
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today unveiled what she believes to be the best and most equitable way of addressing the contentious issue of putting a price on carbon. More >>
The Green Party is calling on FSANZ to halt an application by Monsanto for approval of food derived from a genetically modified corn after it was revealed the company had earlier concealed test results showing another corn product caused illness in ... More >>
Green Party MP Keith Locke is concerned that Police appear to have loosened the criteria for taser use, so that it is now being used simply to make an arrest easier. More >>
Green Party Gambling Spokesperson Sue Bradford says tighter controls are needed on the gambling industry, and particularly on pokie machines. More >>
The Green Party is calling for an independent, post construction audit of the time savings, if any, that have ensued from the building of the Wellington city bypass, to establish whether the promises of savings made by Transit NZ prior to construction ... More >>
Wellington Regional Council seems to be sunk in total denial about the looming challenge of climate change, and the related need to invest in modern public transport services," Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says. More >>
Users of public transport will be outraged to find that the Government values their time far lower than those people who drive their cars, the Green Party says More >>
Where to For Welfare? Sue Bradford MP, Green Party Social Development Spokesperson Public Forum, University of Auckland, 21st March 2007 More >>
As select committee hearings conclude today on the new Social Security Amendment Bill, a rising level of concern is being expressed by beneficiary advocacy groups, disabled persons and church and community organizations about the likely impact of ... More >>
The Terrorism Suppression Amendment Bill, introduced into Parliament today, is a further attack on our civil liberties, Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke says. More >>
The Green Party says a High Court judgement today declaring invalid the laboratory testing tender granted to Labtests by three Auckland District Health Boards, is a huge blow to the credibility and reputation of these Auckland DHBs, and to their ... More >>
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today released Cabinet papers and other documents obtained under the Official Information Act that reveal how the Government circumvented the Land Transport Management Act 2003 legislation with its $1.5 billion ... More >>
New Zealand women with HER2-positive breast cancer will be disappointed that they are being offered only a nine week course of Herceptin instead of the recommended 12-month course of the drug, Green MP Sue Kedgley says. More >>
Green Party MP Sue Bradford is concerned that some of those planning to join next week's marches against her repeal of the S59 defence for assaults on children, are not being told the full story by the organizers. More >>
Green Party Spokesperson on Waste Issues Nandor Tanczos is hailing an attempt by lighting manufacturers and distributors to find an environmental way of disposing of lights containing mercury. More >>
The Green Party is urging the Rotorua/ Taupo branch of Federated Farmers not to engage in a costly and ill-fated legal appeal against a move to make pastoral farming near Lake Taupo subject to resource consent and instead put their efforts into preventing ... More >>
The 1980s' Tomorrow's schools experiment is clearly failing many students and it is time for it to be reviewed, the Green Party says. Green Party Education Spokesperson Metiria Turei says while the Tomorrow's schools programme has provided greater community ... More >>
DHB tactics intended to force many rural pharmacies to shut down and be replaced with medicine depots are a serious threat to patient safety, Green Party Health spokesperson Sue Kedgley says. More >>
The Green Party is calling for FSANZ to immediately withdraw its approval for human consumption of a genetically modified corn after it was revealed the company hid test results showing it caused illness in rats. More >>
Green Party MP Nandor Tanczos is marking Real Cloth Nappy week by writing to the manufacturers of disposable nappies to ask them about their environmental impacts. More >>
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