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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.
An analysis of election media coverage in The Press today shows that TV news programmes are being bullied into cutting the MMP parties out of their content, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
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Green Party Education Spokesperson Metiria Turei welcomes Government funding of $9 million over two years to develop nine new early childhood education services on existing school sites in south Auckland, but calls for more grassroots community involvement rather than the state subsidising overseas-owned education franchises.
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WELLINGTON — The Green Party announced their Transport Strategy for Wellington today, which is designed to eliminate congestion in Wellington, make public transport affordable, and reduce our carbon emissions and our reliance on fossil fuels.
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Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says she was horrified to learn at the ERMA public hearing today that the highly toxic insecticide endosulfan is being widely used on privately owned sports fields, bowling greens, croquet lawns and golf courses around New Zealand.
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The Green Party is renewing calls for a green public investment plan, in light of the highest inflation figures in 18 years - driven by high oil prices.
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QUEENSTOWN — Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons will today fulfil a 20-year dream to hurl herself from a bridge attached to a thin rubber band.
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The Green Party is rejecting calls by New Zealand First to privatise KiwiBank.
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AUCKLAND — The coroner’s inquest into the death of Shane Fisher while a patient at Auckland Hospital’s psychiatric acute unit will today raise questions that the Auckland District Health Board must urgently answer, Green Party Mental Health Spokesperson Sue Bradford says.
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The Green Party has evaluated the policies, programmes and public statements of the two old parties according to the 12 criteria announced a week ago.
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The Green Party’s Economic Policy - launched today by Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons - includes new measures of economic success, lowering income taxes and instead taxing pollution and waste, and allowing only citizens and residents to buy New Zealand land.
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Anti-immigration feeling has no place in the Green party Immigration and Population policies released today, Green MP Keith Locke says.
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Protecting the role of Mori in our democracy underpins the Green Party Mori Issues policy released today.
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Winston Peters’ scaremongering about immigration won’t work this time around, Green Party Immigration Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
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The Green Party is supporting calls by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for an internationally coordinated overhaul of financial regulation and will be pushing for the next New Zealand Government to join international action.
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The Government should be helping the struggling timber industry through the downturn, but purchasing their plants is not the way to do it, the Green Party says.
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The Green Party is concerned that the stress of the election campaign may be causing the Prime Minister's memory to fail her.
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Maori Party Co-Leader Tariana Turias suggestion yesterday that the dole should be scrapped is dangerous in the extreme, and especially for Maori who tend to be disproportionately unemployed, the Green Party says.
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The announcement this afternoon of further details of the Government's deposit guarantee scheme is welcome, but New Zealanders should get a guarantee of responsible lending practices and responsible salary packages in return, the Green Party says.
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The Green Party says it is time to join the dots between tough economic times, job losses in the construction and timber industries and chronic housing shortages.
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Whale Rider star Rawiri Paratene will be in London this week to campaign for the Green Party.
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Labour's sustainable infrastructure announcement is a disappointing mixture of already-announced initiatives and promises so vague they have no real meaning, the Green Party says.
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National’s plans to cancel the Green Party’s $1 billion home insulation programme reveals yet again that they are not interested in the health and welfare of ordinary New Zealanders, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.
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TARANAKI — Trans-Atlantic rowing race winner Rob Hamill will be calling on Taranaki-King Country to “Party Vote Green” in the upcoming General Election.
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The Green Party has welcomed Labour’s promise today to phase in universal student allowances, but says that only the Green Party will make sure that Labour delivers on its pledge.
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The Green Party is calling for spending on sustainable infrastructure to be brought forward in response to the global financial crisis - but is opposed to further dead-end spending on new motorways.
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A Green Party snapshot grocery shopper survey has found that many New Zealanders are increasingly unable to afford healthy food and are purchasing cheaper less healthy alternatives in order to feed their families.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Auckland rail commuters will be treated to a vision of the future on Monday morning (October 13) when Green Party MP Keith Locke and his supporters transform the Mt Eden railway station into a more pleasant place for commuters.
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The Green Party is calling for an independent review into the New Zealand Food Safety Authority’s decision-making processes following allegations the agency hushed-up its own report which questioned the safety of GE Corn variety MON863 for human consumption.
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Instead of blowing the trumpet of New Zealand’s QMS system, Ministry of Fisheries Chief Executive Wayne McNee should concentrate on preventing the well known and widespread abuse of the system, the Green Party says.
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A Green Party Budget bid aimed at investigating contaminated land in New Zealand has shed a small shaft of light on dioxin contamination at sawmill sites.
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The Green Party is calling on food safety authorities to take a precautionary approach and test fruit and vegetables imported from China, following reported possible finds of melamine contamination in other countries.
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The policies of the two old parties will come under the scrutiny of the Green Party over the next few weeks as it decides which of them has the best interests of New Zealanders at heart.
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Green Party Co-Leaders have called Nationals proposed tax a fake free lunch which will increase New Zealands debt and the gap between rich and poor, and suck resources out of research and science.
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Lizzie Gillett started out as a news reporter here on Channel 9 but in just seven years managed to work her way up to the role of Producer on a cinema documentary.
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The Green Party is urging New Zealand manufacturers to follow the lead of the makers of Anathoth jams and introduce detailed, accurate country of origin labelling on their products.
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The Green Party believes the Government’s purchase of the iconic St James Station announced today gives an opportunity to create a new National Park centred on the Lewis Pass highway.
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Government drug-funding body Pharmac has confirmed today to the Green Party that people experiencing adverse reactions to the thyroid drug Eltroxin will have to wait until at least mid November for a subsidised alternative medicine, despite Government assurances in September that an alternative was only weeks away.
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The Green Party is calling on John Key to do the responsible thing and drop his plans for further tax cuts on top of Labour’s tax cuts, in light of the Government’s financial position and the uncertainty in global financial markets.
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Green Party MP Metiria Turei says the Red List released today by the highly respected International Union for Conservation of Nature shows there have been very few improvements for New Zealand’s marine mammals.
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AUCKLAND — The Green Party is considering a legal challenge to plans to fund the new Rodney Penlink road out of a regional fuel tax.
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The Green Party policy on Animal Welfare, launched today, calls for an independent Commissioner of Animal Welfare to help end animal suffering in New Zealand.
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It is time for Government to set its sights on a Green economy to ensure there will be jobs for New Zealanders, that food will be affordable and it won’t be out of people’s reach to get around, the Green Party says.
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The Green Party has pledged in its Forestry Policy today to protect New Zealand’s timber industry from cheap, illegally logged rainforest timber, and reduce New Zealand’s part in the global trade in priceless rainforests.
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National’s controversial plan to focus on New Zealand’s worst criminals ignores our victims of crime, says the Green Party.
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NORTHLAND — Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman is supporting calls by Ngati Tara for the Far North District Council to rethink plans to increase the amount of treated human sewerage going into Doubtless Bay via the Parapara Stream.
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New Zealanders will be disturbed to learn that China has been conducting a massive spying operation on the online phone service Skype, and that one of the trigger phrases is ‘milk powder’, Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
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The leaders of three MMP parties have written a joint letter to the TV3’s head of news and current affairs Mark Jennings condemning the decision to cancel the All Parties Leaders debate and asking for it to be reconsidered.
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The Green Party have challenged Labour to redirect the billions of dollars earmarked for New Zealand’s largest ever roading programme into public transport, following Dr Cullen’s admission yesterday that people will choose public transport if it is provided and that Peak Oil is real.
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New Zealand’s burgeoning methamphetamine problem could worsen as more precursor ingredients enter the country because of our preferential trade deal with China, says the Green Party.
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The Labour-led Government should be ashamed for allowing the country’s waterways to become more polluted under its watch, despite Labour promising at the last election to make rivers safe for swimming in, Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
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The Green Party is saddened by news of the death of Parliament's kaumatua John Rangitihi Rangiwaiata Tahuparae.
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LEVIN — Tests in Lake Horowhenua after the recent overflow of nearby sewage ponds appear to confirm the lake suffered from extra pollution because of the event, Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
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The Green Party says children are being needlessly put at risk by 18 councils around New Zealand that are spraying playing fields with a highly toxic insecticide, banned in more than 50 countries, when a safer alternative is readily available.
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The increase in family violence reporting revealed in statistics released by the police today is one clear indicator of just how successful the ‘It’s Not OK’ and related campaigns have been, says the Green Party.
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Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says the National Partys plans to reform the Resource Management Act are a misguided business-first, community-second, environment-last policy.
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Green Party MP Keith Locke says the Police Association should not be justifying the excessive use of pepper spray in police cells.
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Food safety concerns can only grow with the start of New Zealand’s preferential trade deal with China tomorrow, says the Green Party.
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The latest figures from the New Zealand Transport Agency and ARTA show that even the recent fall in petrol prices has not been enough to encourage commuters back into their cars.
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The Green Party is calling on the New Zealand Superannuation Fund to buy back the South Island electricity grid if Wachovia Bank - which effectively owns the grid - collapses as expected.
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Green Party MP Sue Kedgley is calling on Telecom, Vodafone and NZ Communications to publicly release a list of thousands of proposed sites for new cell phone towers, to inform local residents before they are built.
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The Green Party is challenging the New Zealand Super Fund’s statement today that they no longer invest in ethically compromised companies such as those engaged in nuclear weapons manufacture.
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In the wake of the European Union’s ban on imports of all Chinese milk-related products for children over the weekend, the New Zealand Government must put consumers before trade deals in its handling of the melamine scandal, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says.
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The Green Party is disappointed that TV3 has allowed itself to be bullied by Helen Clark and John Key, and effectively gagged the MMP parties.
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The Green Party strongly supports the call to remove tobacco displays from their prominent position next to checkout counters in most supermarkets and dairies around New Zealand.
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Today’s Herald poll on attitudes to the Section 59 law change shows just how confused next year’s referendum question is, Green Party Children’s Issues Spokesperson Sue Bradford says.
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The collaboration of Helen Clark and John Key to refuse to share a TV platform with other party leaders is extreme arrogance and signals the start of a major attack to undermine MMP, says the Green Party.
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The Green Party welcomes free off-peak public transport for superannuitants but says the most urgent thing is better quality, more reliable and more frequent services.
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In light of the Chinese infant formula scandal, New Zealanders will be shocked to learn that Labour and National have voted against a 39,000-signature petition calling for mandatory country of origin labelling of fresh and single component food, Green MP Sue Kedgley says.
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New Zealand has lost a highly principled and respected citizen with the death of former New Zealand First MP Brian Donnelly QSO today, the Green Party says.
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The Government and United Future are keeping close to their chests the cost of creating yet more hunting advocacy and advice groups, and which recreation services will be cut to pay for them.
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ANZ National Bank has badly let down New Zealanders with today’s announcement that they will cut staff numbers through attrition and redundancy, Green Party Employment Relations Spokesperson Sue Bradford says.
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New Zealand’s Food Safety Authority must immediately name the New Zealand-made product found to contain melamine and issue a nationwide recall of it and the White Rabbit Creamy Candies, the Green Party says.
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The Government is doing little else but hand-wringing over the polluted state of New Zealand’s lowland rivers instead of taking the brave action needed, Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
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WELLINGTON CITY — “The lockout of 300 Wellington bus drivers is a heavy handed over-reaction to legitimate claims by Wellington bus drivers for a decent wage increase,” Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says.
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Green Party Conservation Spokesperson Metiria Turei, with the Minister of Conservation Steve Chadwick, today launched the new Community Conservation fund, which provides $4 million dollars over the next two years for projects on public land.
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Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says it is astounding Fonterra are condemning their partner company SanLu for covering up the milk powder crises for seven months, when they themselves chose to remain silent for a whole month too after learning of the contamination, and failed to alert senior Chinese officials or issue a mandatory nationwide recall.
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As Parliament heads into its final week, the Green Party says the Government has lost its nerve, bowed to food and advertising industry pressure, and put the Public Health Bill on the backburner,” Greens Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Green MP Sue Kedgley today expressed dismay that an attempt is being made by a Wellington company to reintroduce a banned chemical into food that children will eat.
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It is incredible that the Government still insists on keeping New Zealanders in the dark on the question of where their food comes from, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.
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Government Spokesperson on Energy Efficiency, Jeanette Fitzsimons, has today announced that heat pump water heaters will soon be included in the solar grants scheme, giving consumers more efficient hot water choices.
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The Government is covering up animal welfare and other concerns about AgResearch’s genetic engineering facility at Ruakura by refusing to answer any parliamentary questions about the research, says Greens Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.
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The Green Party is calling on the Government to make a public commitment not to weaken Pharmac and not to weaken laws on genetic engineering or foreign ownership in any trade deal with the United States.
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Following a record US$25 spike in the price of a barrel of oil, Green Party Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has released a series of city maps which show how well, or badly, New Zealand’s suburban populations are prepared for rising oil prices.
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WELLINGTON CITY — More choices for commuters and protection from prices at the petrol pump are key elements of the Green Party’s Transport Package released by Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons in Wellington today.
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The Government must explain to New Zealanders why there was 25 day delay before it took any action to warn the Chinese Government that SanLu infant formula was contaminated.
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TAURANGA — Regional Councillor Karen Summerhays was selected today as the Green Party candidate for the Tauranga electorate.
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NORTHLAND — It is ridiculous for Far North District Council to blame “greenies” for the council’s lack of long-term planning and for sewage problems created by the council, Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
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The Government predicts a 75 percent increase in the amount of freight carried through New Zealand, but is not considering increasing rail or shipping capabilities, even though ETS legislation has just been passed to reduce climate changing carbon emissions.
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With more than 6000 Chinese babies suffering kidney damage from contaminated baby milk formula, our own Government must drop its opposition to mandatory Country of Origin labelling of food before a similar tragedy occurs here, the Green Party says.
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Green Party MP Keith Locke is concerned that the new Search and Seizure Powers Bill will further intrude on New Zealanders’ privacy.
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The Treaty of Waitangi claims lodged by two gangs will air the impacts of 1940s and 50s government policy shifting Maori from rural areas as a cheap urban workforce, the Green Party says.
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Fonterra has a responsibility to ensure that the families and children affected by their Chinese partner’s contaminated products are getting the medical attention they desperately need, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says.
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Regional councils must resist new pressure from farming leaders who seem to want to stop council moves to enforce effluent consents and clean up rivers, the Green Party says.
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The National Party has been forced to reveal they are being funded by the roading lobby as a result of the ‘rolling disclosure’ provisions the Greens insisted were placed in the Electoral Finance Act.
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New Zealand should be much bolder in promoting peace, human rights, social justice and sustainability on the world stage, say the Greens.
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The Green Party today publicly launched its Industrial Relations policy for the 2008 election.
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HELENSVILLE — Hearings starting next week for a proposed new gas-fired power station in National Leader John Key’s electorate of Helensville are a major test for Mr Key and his party on climate change issues, Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
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Fonterra had even more reason to go public about the contaminated milk issue after it was revealed that the company who imported the milk powder for further processing in Taiwan is one of their subsidiary companies, the Green Party says.
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