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The Green Charter The charter is the founding document of The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand accepts Te Tiriti o Waitangi as the founding document of Aotearoa New Zealand; recognises Maori as Tangata Whenua in Aotearoa New Zealand; and commits to the following four Principles: Ecological Wisdom: The basis of ecological wisdom is that human beings are part of the natural world.
Dirty dairy shed discharges highlighted today are only a small part of the problem, Green Party water spokesperson Eugenie Sage said today.
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The Government's transport policy continues to under-invest in public transport and vital road maintenance while splurging money on National's pet motorway projects, Green Party transport spokesperson Julie Anne Genter said today.
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The Minister of Education needs to clarify whether charter schools will face the same restrictions on class sizes that the state sector is facing, Green Party education spokesperson Catherine Delahunty said today.
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The Government should not sign us up to be sued by tobacco companies, Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei said today.
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The Green Party welcomes the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's recommendations about the need to improve the protection of our wild and scenic rivers.
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WELLINGTON CITY — What: Green Party Annual General Meeting When: Queens Birthday weekend.
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The Green Party today challenged the Government to take urgent to action to address our poor water quality given that New Zealand's ranking has dropped to 43rd in the Government's favourite environmental performance study, Yale University's Environmental Performance Index.
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The New Zealand public’s loss of their state owned assets will result in a windfall for the private banking and finance sectors, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
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The Government's partial back-down over teacher cuts is not "good news" as Education Minister Hekia Parata says, but an embarrassing admission it stuffed up, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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The Green Party's insulation scheme negotiated with National has produced more than one billion dollars in benefits for New Zealanders according to new reports from the Ministry of Economic Development.
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The Green Party agrees with the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) chair Dr Morgan Williams that the WWF report released today is a “wake up call for NZ”.
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The Green Party is calling on the Government to rethink the cuts to education announced in the Budget before we lose technology teaching from intermediate and primary schools.
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The Green Party supports the Human Rights Commission's recommendations for the aged care sector, Green Party Health spokesperson Kevin Hague said today.
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An increased number of older New Zealanders will pay more for their residential aged care as a result of changes hidden in the budget, the Green Party said today.
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New Zealanders are sick of National making excuses for its failed economic management and are angry that families are being made to pay for its mistakes, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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Budget 2012 fails to deliver any fundamental changes to the structural problems facing the New Zealand economy while ramping up the burden on lower and middle-income New Zealanders, the Green Party said today.
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New research by the Green Party shows an ordinary working family could be more than $11,000 worse off this year due to budget changes made by the National Government, while high income earners are better off by tens of thousands.
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The Government's freeze on road maintenance funding to pay for expensive new motorways will cost ratepayers, the Green Party said today.
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The Green Party supports the Living Wage Aotearoa New Zealand campaign which has been launched today.
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The Green Party is today welcoming the news that Meridian Energy is pulling out of plans to dam the Mokihinui river.
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The Green Party today released the detailed findings of a new report that shows the Government and the economy will be permanently worse off if asset sales go ahead.
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The Government must support workers who have suffered health problems from cleaning up the toxic site at Mapua, Green Party toxics spokesperson Catherine Delahunty said today.
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The Government should implement the Land and Water Forum's recommendations to set national environmental standards for freshwater, Green Party water spokesperson Eugenie Sage said today.
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The National Government needs to explain why it is pushing ahead with uneconomic projects like the four-lane highway from Warkworth to Wellsford, while crying poverty and cutting services in the coming Budget, Green Party transport spokesperson Julie Anne Genter said today.
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The Government needs to reveal what model of performance pay they intend to use for teachers, Green Party education spokesperson Catherine Delahunty said today.
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National's announcement today of successful applicants to the $25.3 million Social Housing Unit (SHU) Growth Fund is just a drop in the ocean, the Green Party said today.
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The Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart home insulation scheme is a good example of smart, green economics at work, said the Green Party today.
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The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) risks dragging down our food standards to meet the lower level standards of other countries, the Green Party said today.
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The Government has taken Treasury's bad advice and increased class sizes despite knowing that this policy will negatively affect children, Green Party education spokesperson Catherine Delahunty said today.
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Last week's discovery of a Queensland fruit fly in Auckland should not be a catalyst for irradiation of staple produce such as tomatoes, yet this is exactly what is happening, the Green Party said today.
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Today's victory in the Court of Appeal for families caring for disabled family members should be taken notice of by the Government, Green MP Catherine Delahunty said today.
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The Green Party is challenging Finance Minister Bill English to produce evidence to back up his claim made last night that the 2010 tax cuts are fiscally neutral.
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The Green Party has today revealed that the National Government has so far had to borrow an additional $2 billion dollars to fund their 2010 tax cut package for upper income earners.
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The Ministry of Primary Industries' shaky assurances that our existing border control procedures are enough to kerb potential fruit fly infestations are undermined by 'risk profiling' methods, the Green Party said today.
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The Government has let down the families of the Pike River miners by allowing their body recovery to be conditional on the commercial viability of the mine, the Green Party said today.
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National's attempt to use debt to scare New Zealanders into accepting asset sales is straight from Sir Roger Douglas' playbook and, as Sir Roger himself admitted, makes no sense, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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The trapping of a Queensland fruit fly today shows that once again our primary industries are at threat because of biosecurity leaks, the Green Party said today.
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New figures, which show that New Zealand has lost $21 billion in dividends since the sales of BNZ, Telecom, and Contact, prove that asset sales are a folly that we don't need to repeat, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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New Zealand needs a major re-think of what is a liveable family income, as a new study reveals half of all households are likely to have spent time in poverty, the Green Party says.
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The Minister of Conservation needs to do the right thing now and approve the Akaroa Marine Reserve proposal, the Green Party said today.
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New Zealand must follow the lead of Australia and refuse to sign any trade agreement that includes investor state dispute settlement provisions, Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei said today.
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The Government's student loan and allowance changes are so poorly researched that the Minister doesn't even know how they will interact with other key policies, the Green Party said today.
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The Prime Minister is unable to deny that young women on welfare will be forced to take long term contraception in order to stop their benefits being cut, the Green Party said today.
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The Minister of Education Hekia Parata is contradicting the Ministry on the issue of publishing school league tables, the Green Party said today.
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The National Government's poor fiscal management and, in particular, its very expensive 2010 tax cut package, has driven the Government's books even further into the red, the Green Party said today.
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"Today's announcement of shuffling of money within the social development budget to pay for the Government's punitive welfare reforms begs the question of where the money will come from," said Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei.
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The Green Party today released a comprehensive list of all the current subsidiaries owned by Genesis, Meridian, Solid Energy, and Mighty River Power that could easily be sold into 100 percent private ownership under National's plans for partial privatisation.
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The Government’s plan to greatly increase the number of pokies at SkyCity is being falsely sold by John Key as some sort of harm minimisation plan, Green Party gambling spokesperson Denise Roche said today.
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There is a better way to change student loan repayment rates that will help graduates who can afford to pay their loans off faster, without putting the squeeze on young families, the Green Party said today.
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New Zealanders should be told how much the National Government is spending on PR - such as the website it launched today - to promote asset sales, which Kiwis overwhelmingly oppose, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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The Government must follow Australia's example and bring in country of origin labelling for meat products, the Green Party said today.
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If the Prime Minister is serious about addressing the current scandal into John Banks' mayoral campaign funding then the Government should adopt a Green Party Member's Bill already waiting in the ballot, the Green Party said today.
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The need for the Government to adopt a less ideological monetary policy has only increased with the Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to reduce its official cash rate, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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"The tough new immigration measures to prepare for boat people are a desperate attempt to distract the public from the Government's current woes," Green Party immigration spokesperson Jan Logie said today.
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New Zealand should be encouraging students into tertiary education, not preventing them from studying by forcing them into debt to survive, the Green Party said today.
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The National Government’s decision to waive the ten percent cap on shareholdings in Chorus for an Australian investment company proves it can’t be trusted to limit foreign ownership in its planned asset sales programme, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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The Green Party is calling on the Government to commit to building an Avon-Otakaro River Park, after more than 18,500 people have signed a petition in support of the Park.
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ACC minister Judith Collins must explain why ACC complained to the police over the mass leaking of privacy information to Bronwyn Pullar, Green Party ACC spokesperson Kevin Hague said today.
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The Prime Minister's position on John Banks is weak considering his past record on Ministerial resignations, the Green Party said today.
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The Green Party is calling on the Government to implement an immediate moratorium on set-net fishing in the Taranaki region following another Maui's dolphin death.
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The Green Party is calling on the Government to implement an immediate moratorium on set-net fishing in the Taranaki region following another Maui's dolphin death.
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New figures from the Parliamentary Library show the National Government's tax cuts to the top 10 percent of income earners are costing $700 million-$800 million a year while it pleads poverty and cuts services, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today (April 27).
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The National Government's plan to cut vital public services while leaving poor tax and spending decisions unchanged is the wrong response to the latest downgrade in the fiscal outlook, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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A practical approach to monetary policy would allow the Reserve Bank to lower the Official Cash Rate easing pressure on the overvalued New Zealand dollar, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei has today asked the Auditor General to investigate the process that led to SkyCity being chosen as the preferred bidder for an international convention centre in Auckland.
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Prime Minister John Key is in “la-la land” if he thinks New Zealand can afford to continue with an overvalued dollar and a persistent current account deficit, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
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The Government's plans to change the way welfare is delivered are resulting in successful schemes being axed, Green Party welfare spokesperson Jan Logie said today The Ministry of Social Development has advised the Mayor of Otorohanga that there were not enough unemployed young people in Otorohanga to allow the district to qualify for Government support.
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The high kiwi dollar is preventing the long overdue rebalancing of our economy onto a more productive and less debt-ridden footing, the Green Party said today.
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The Green Party is supporting Government moves to introduce plain packaging of cigarettes, but says it needs to stand up to legal attacks from the tobacco lobby.
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The New Zealand Government has signed off once again on the Crafar farms deal after intense pressure from the Chinese Government, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
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The public has not been given adequate time to make submissions on the Social Security (Youth Support and Work focus) Amendment Bill said Green Party Income Support spokesperson Jan Logie today.
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Petrol prices are rising three times faster than household incomes and the Government's current transport direction is only going to make things worse, the Green Party said today.
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The Government's lack of support for local manufacturing is to blame for Kiwirail's decision to privatise its Hillside workshop, Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei said today.
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The establishment of the Central Christchurch Development Unit as a response to the Christchurch City Council's draft Central City Plan risks overshadowing the work of the Council and the city's residents, the Green Party said today.
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The Government must act responsibly and cancel wasteful spending on low-value highway projects following official warnings that the transport budget will blow-out in the coming decade, Green Party transport spokesperson Julie Anne Genter said today.
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The bidding process for Auckland's Convention Centre must be stopped and retendered following revelations John Key offered an unfair advantage to Skycity, the Green Party said today.
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King Salmon's proposal to shift the Marlborough Sounds Resource Management Plan in order to allow its expansion has met with firm public opposition in Blenheim, the Green Party said today.
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It is unacceptable that Solid Energy's underground coal gasification project − which involves lighting coal on fire underground - lacks independent monitoring, the Green Party said today.
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SkyCity chief executive Nigel Morrison is making desperate claims in an effort to minimise the harm SkyCitys operations cause the wider community, Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei said today.
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SkyCity chief executive Nigel Morrison is making desperate claims in an effort to minimise the harm SkyCity's operations cause the wider community, Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei said today.
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Half of all New Zealand companies involved in exporting are being hurt by the high and volatile New Zealand exchange rate, said Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman today.
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The New Zealand Government must put human rights firmly on the agenda during meetings with Chinese political leader Jia Qinglin, Green Party foreign affairs spokesperson Dr Kennedy Graham said today.
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The Government should can its convention centre deal with SkyCity and instead strengthen the gambling law to stop casinos benefiting from the proceeds of crime, the Green Party said today.
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The Chinese Government is putting pressure on New Zealand to loosen our overseas investment rules through a top level diplomatic visit, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
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The Government is overstating the economic benefits of expanded oil and gas exploration in New Zealand says the Green Party.
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"The proposals in the consultation are a regressive move on Climate Change," said Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman, in response to the consultation document on the Government's proposed changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
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The National Government is proposing to make sweeping changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) without providing the public with a detailed fiscal analysis on how much these changes will ultimately cost the taxpayer, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
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The Productivity Commission's main recommendations for affordable housing will create sprawling, congested, and less productive cities, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
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Transpower is circumventing Government policy and not being a good corporate citizen, Green Party climate change spokesperson Dr Kennedy Graham said today.
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A Green Party member's bill pulled today from the Parliamentary ballot will establish a publicly accessible register of lobbyists, Green Party open government spokesperson Holly Walker said.
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The decision by the Auditor General to launch an inquiry into aspects of the Bronwyn Pullar saga that will not be examined by other investigations shows that there is more to the matter than just breaches of privacy says the Green Party.
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A Green Party Bill which would better protect our most precious conservation areas from mining will today receive its first reading, the Green Party said.
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The National Government's poor budget management has led to a widening budget deficit with no good news in sight, the Green Party said.
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MARLBOROUGH — King Salmon's proposed plan change to the Marlborough Sounds Resource Management Plan would set a dangerous precedent if approved, Green Party fisheries spokesperson Steffan Browning said today.
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The Green Party has pioneered the co-leadership model which has helped us provide representative and dynamic leadership.
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The Green Party has expressed their sadness at the passing of Rev Dr Hone Kaa.
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The Green Party announced today that former Cabinet Minister Laila Harre will be taking up the newly created position of Issues Director based in Auckland.
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The Government's decision to freeze the student allowance parental income threshold is a further barrier to higher education, the Green Party said today.
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The Green Party today welcomed the decision by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment to undertake an investigation into fracking, and urged the Government to put in place a fracking moratorium until the results are released.
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The Green Party has written and formally requested that the Intelligence and Security Committee undertake an investigation into Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications company and equipment supplier, after the Australian Government blocked Huawei from their national broadband network contracts.
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