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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.
The drop in oil prices by a third from their record high in July will be welcome to motorists but relief at the pumps is only a temporary reprieve, the Green Party says.
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The Green Party is profoundly disappointed that the Government has virtually ignored a recommendation from the Health Select Committee that steps be taken to ensure ambulances are properly crewed.
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The fishing industry’s obstinate opposition to recent protections for the critically endangered Maui’s dolphin shows how essential it is to strengthen New Zealand’s fisheries and marine protection laws, the Green Party says.
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Green Party MP Keith Locke has warned the Labour Government against any ban on gangs.
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Questions must be answered as to why Fonterra remained silent when it learned last month that baby food its joint venture company was selling in China was contaminated with a poisonous substance melamine, the Green Party says.
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The Green Party today called for a national ranking of coastlines plus central Government action to protect those deemed “national treasures”.
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Green Party Co-Leaders Jeanette Fitzsimons and Russel Norman welcome the Prime Minister’s election date announcement of November 8.
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Today Green Party MP Sue Kedgley has called on Fonterra to reduce the domestic price of cheese and dairy prices, following its admission that international dairy prices have fallen sharply in recent months, and by 38 percent in the past 14 months.
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Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says intrusive and potentially harmful telecommunications equipment will be able to be installed as of right, without consultation, on most telephone poles in New Zealand, thanks to just gazetted sweeping National Environmental Standards.
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A $100 million boost for the Department of Conservation features prominently in the Green Party’s Conservation policy.
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The Green Party welcomes the passing of the Waste Minimisation Bill into law and calls on Ministers, businesses and the community to use the tools it provides to achieve a zero-waste New Zealand.
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The Green Party is calling on Medsafe to tell the hundreds of New Zealanders suffering adverse reactions to the new formulation of thyroid drug Eltroxin when an alternative drug will be available.
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The TTThe passing of the Emissions Trading Scheme is the first small step towards getting New Zealand’s carbon emissions under control – there is still much work to be done, the Green Party says.
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The Government can’t ignore a report on Waikato water quality out today that shows 70 percent of 78 rivers and streams tested were unsafe for swimming and more than 75 percent were unsafe for stock to drink from, Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
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Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman is urging Environment Minister Trevor Mallard to take as much notice of tourism industry lobbying as he has of lobbying by polluters in recent months.
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The Green Party has released its Children’s Policy for the 2008 election on the eve of the Every Child Counts Conference being held September 10 to 11 in Wellington.
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The Green Party is calling on AgResearch to publicly release photographs of deformed calves so the public can see downsides of genetic engineering as well as hearing and reading the Crown Research Institute’s spin.
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AUCKLAND — Friday, at a media conference in Auckland, the Green Party launched a simple and powerful advertising campaign for the 2008 election.
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The Green Party is calling for more detail from the National Party on their environment policy after reading the partial policy draft leaked yesterday.
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A Citizens’ Forum will be established to consider matters of election and political party funding, as part of an agreement between the Green Party and the Government during the negotiations around the Electoral Finance Act, the Green Party announced today.
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A long press statement by AgResearch today in which it tries to justify its application to genetically engineer a wide range of animals, plus human and monkey cells, inadvertently shows sad downsides to GE research such as deformed foetuses and calves.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Auckland City Councillor Paul Goldsmith’s “blame the victim” response to the homeless is the worst way to handle New Zealand’s housing crisis, the Green Party says.
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The health of Maori and Pacific Island communities will get a big lift from the $1 billion home insulation fund secured by the Green Party in the ETS negotiations, Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.
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LEVIN — Horowhenua District Council is making the wrong move by proposing secret meetings with a tiny number of invited members as the main community consultation, Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
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AUCKLAND — Problems at Auckland Hospital's acute psychiatric unit will come under the spotlight in Parliament this afternoon when Green Party MP Sue Bradford questions the Health Minister about another tragedy associated with the Te Whetu Tawera unit.
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LEVIN — It is disastrous the edge of Lake Horowhenua is still being polluted by sewage, with high levels of e.coli found in official tests between council sewage ponds and Lake Horowhenua after the treatment plant overflowed recently.
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The Green Party says the housing crisis evident to many ordinary New Zealanders is not being treated seriously enough by either National or Labour.
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The Green Party has released its updated Gambling Policy on the eve of New Zealand's Gamble-Free Day - September 1 - stating that parts of the community sector need assistance to overcome addiction to pokies, just as individual gambling addicts do.
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TASMAN — Correspondence and other information given to the Green Party shows the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) used lawyers to argue against Tasman District Council (TDC) testing for dioxin during the recent toxic site clean-up at Mapua.
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Green Party MP Keith Locke says Police Commissioner Howard Broad’s day long consultation with MPs before deciding to introduce Tasers is a travesty.
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News that increasing numbers of families in the far north are being forced into mortgagee sales should be a wake up call to Government and all political parties about the seriousness of the current housing crisis, the Green Party says.
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The Green Party is calling on the Government to intervene to help hundreds of New Zealanders who are experiencing significant adverse reactions to a new formulation of thyroid medication Eltroxin.
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Green Party MP Sue Bradford's third private member's bill in this term of Parliament is expected to pass its final reading in the House this evening.
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The Green Party is welcoming the debate opened by a NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development report which calls on the Government to implement a water trading system.
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ACT Leader Rodney Hide today expressed hope that both the Green Party and New Zealand First would refuse to support the Labour-led Government's Emissions Trading Scheme.
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The Green Party Caucus has decided that the substantial changes we have won to the ETS justify voting for it.
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The Green Party has received over 2500 emails on its forthcoming ETS decision in the four days since it asked for public input, and they are still flooding in at a rate of about 2 a minute.
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Auckland Green Party MP Keith Locke says National transport spokesperson Maurice Williamson’s proposal for high tolls on new motorways would only hurt poor people in the absence of adequate public transport alternatives.
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National’s plans for national testing of school children, if implemented, will follow in the footsteps of other international failures and, like them, result in the dumbing down of teaching, the Green Party says.
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The Greens are calling on the Government to take action after a report that overseas buyers are swooping on the New Zealand property market, keeping out first time home buyers.
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The Green Party is facing a busy weekend at the computer as views from the public on their ETS decision flood in.
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The Green Party is facing a difficult decision over whether to lend its support to the Emissions Trading Scheme.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Sewage ponds have overflowed at the Lake Horowhenua treatment plant with only new unlined earth banks keeping them from spilling into the lake.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Green Party is supporting the call from Christchurch children for all tobacco retail displays to be removed from the sight of children and young people in dairies, supermarkets and petrol stations around New Zealand.
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DUNEDIN — The Green Party released its Information Technology (IT) Policy today ahead of a lecture tonight by free software legend Richard Stallman, jointly hosted by Otago University's Campus Greens branch and the computer science department.
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LEVIN — Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman MP has challenged Horowhenua Mayor Brendan Duffy to a public debate in Levin over the District Councils waste management practices.
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The next Government needs to increase instant fines possible under Resource Management Act regulations for serious polluters of rivers and lakes, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
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The Woolworths supermarket chain is being praised by the Green Party for severing links to a pulp and paper company linked to alleged illegal logging and unsustainable practices.
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WEST COAST — On the eve of the whitebait season, the Green Party is calling on farmers, councils and the Government to protect whitebait habitat from the impacts of livestock and industry.
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The National Party's new energy policy is a tribute to cronyism and makes no economic sense, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.
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Green Party MP Keith Locke welcomes the Court of Appeals decision upholding bail to a jailed Iranian Christian, and says Parliament should delete a provision in the Immigration Bill that allows indefinite detention.
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National's new welfare policy is a recipe for further harassment and despair, and little more than an updated replay of its failed 1990s attack on unemployed people and beneficiaries.
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OTAGO — Otago Regional Council must stop protecting names of persistent polluters if it is serious about the problem of worsening river quality in the region, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
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The Green Party is launching a petition calling on the Government to take urgent action to halt the over-exploitation of the Pacific's tuna fisheries.
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Reports in the 82,000-circulation Rural News newspaper that agricultural polluters gained control of the Government’s Water Programme of Action should be a cause of concern for all other New Zealanders, says Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman.
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Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons describes Matthew Hooten as ‘indulging in some wishful thinking’ in the Sunday Star Times this week.
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National looks set to take a giant step backwards in its plans for beneficiaries, say the Greens.
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Horowhenua District Council needs to rethink its priorities, with a new threat to discharge sewage into Lake Horowhenua, the Green Party says.
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Pharmac’s decision to turn down additional funding to extend Herceptin funding from 9 weeks to 12 months is a bitter blow for many New Zealand women, Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says.
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The Green Party believes the New Zealand economy and society would benefit hugely if the community sector was properly resourced and enabled to meet its full potential.
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I am writing to you in my capacity as Sports Spokesperson for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.
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A huge application to genetically engineer a wide range of animals, plus human and monkey cells, side-steps a government promise to deal with GE applications on a case by case basis, Greens Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.
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The problem with petrol pricing is the end of cheap oil, Commerce Minister Lianne Dalziel confirmed today.
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It is not acceptable that Work and Income case managers continue to bully and intimidate people seeking their assistance, the Green Party says.
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The Government’s Policy Statement on Land Transport Funding, released this afternoon, fails to meet goals for sustainable transport, severely underfunds alternatives to cars and will keep New Zealanders shackled to petrol for many more decades, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
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HAWKE'S BAY — The Hawke’s Bay Regional Council appears to be all talk when it comes to making the Tukituki River anything other than an insipid agricultural drain, says Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman.
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MARLBOROUGH — The Green Party is disappointed in the decision of Marlborough District Council to grant resource consents for Trust Power’s hydro scheme on the iconic braided Wairau River.
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Green Party MP Keith Locke and Wellington human rights activists will meet in front of Parliament at 1pm today to highlight the plight of those striving for democracy in China and Tibet.
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Over 22,000 New Zealanders suffered adverse reactions to medicines while they were in hospital last year, and a further 1910 experienced adverse reactions to medicines obtained outside of hospitals, according to figures obtained by the Green Party from answers to written questions.
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News that the National Party plans to borrow billions and gut the RMA so it can fast track new motorway projects is evidence that National is living in the past, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
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The New Zealand genetic engineering lobby group Life Sciences Network has shown its true colours by fighting against both open information and protection for non-GE growers, says Greens Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.
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WEST COAST — The Green Party has obtained photos of the mature rainforest trees felled by Transit last week, which show they were not rotten and dangerous, and should never have been removed from the protected World Heritage site they grew in.
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Green Party MP Keith Locke is asking the Government and New Zealand Olympic officials to challenge Beijing’s censorship of websites available to those visiting the Games.
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As part of its co-operation agreement with the Government, the Green Party has negotiated new safeguards to protect all those who want no part of any genetically-engineered farming industry.
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Green Party is backing IHC’s complaint to be laid today with the Human Rights commissioner that Government policy systemically discriminates against children with special education needs.
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Consumers who have purchased a product containing unapproved genetically engineered rice should be being warned not to eat it as its affects on human health are unknown, the Green Party says.
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CANTERBURY — It is ridiculous that officials are backing a proposal to set up a new field trial in Canterbury of genetically engineered onions, spring onions, garlic and leeks by saying it would “enhance” aspects of New Zealand’s reputation, says Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.
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TASMAN — The Green Party is concerned that the clean up of the Mapua site near Nelson has probably come at the expense of further contamination of air and water.
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WEST COAST — Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says he is worried central government may put pressure on West Coast authorities to ignore a report saying 100 percent of West Coast water supplies failed to meet drinking standards.
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New Zealand has lost one of its strongest Maori guardians of this country’s indigenous flora and fauna.
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Today’s new trade deficit figures showing a massive increase in the cost of importing petrol and other oil products dramatically illustrate why the Government must reduce New Zealand’s dependence on oil, the Green Party says.
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Green Party MP Keith Locke has criticised the chef de mission of New Zealand’s Olympic team Dave Currie for discouraging our athletes from speaking out on human rights issues while in Beijing.
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Pledges by most New Zealand major furniture retail chains to stop importing outdoor kwila furniture is a major victory for those campaigning to save Melanesian rainforests, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman said today.
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AUCKLAND CITY — It is a constitutional affront for the Police to threaten students wishing to conduct a citizen’s arrest of visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Green Party MP Keith Locke says.
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WESTPORT — More native forest, snails and kiwi habitat are destined for destruction by Government-owned coal company Solid Energy.
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AUCKLAND — The Green Party says fears that five other rest homes could be almost as bad as Auckland’s Belhaven home – where an elderly woman was gagged – undermine confidence in the entire aged care sector, and to restore confidence the government should publicly release audits of all New Zealand rest homes.
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Giving tax breaks to New Zealand businesses that move their operations offshore is insanity, Green Party Regional Development Spokesperson Sue Bradford says.
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The Government’s long-awaited Proposed National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management released today puts on hold a Labour promise to make all water bodies safe for swimming within a generation, according to Green MP and Co-Leader Russel Norman.
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The Government must listen to the concerns of parents worried about the health risks of locating huge telecommunications tower masts next to pre-schools and schools, Green MP Sue Kedgley said today.
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A leaked government blueprint for freshwater management shows Labour may be about to break its promise to make all water bodies safe for swimming within a generation, according to Green MP and Co-Leader Russel Norman.
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The Green Party is pleased that ERMA is finally listening to community concerns and will reassess the use of methyl bromide - an ozone depletor which has been linked to severe ill-health in workers.
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Green Party MP Metiria Turei has today released the Party’s Disability Policy: Removing the barriers.
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WEST COAST — The West Coast mining and dairy industries must be called to account by the West Coast Regional Council and the Government, after the industries were identified today as major offenders in a report saying 100 percent of West Coast water supplies failed to meet drinking standards, the Green Party says.
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Green Party MP Keith Locke has welcomed improvements in the Immigration Bill, reported back to Parliament today, but says it is still oppressive.
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Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman has welcomed figures announced today showing boosted export success for Fonterra, but warns the company needs drastic change to protect New Zealands and the companys long-term future.
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Allegations that supermarket giant Progressive Enterprises is applying pressure to its suppliers adds further impetus to the Green Party’s call for a Commerce Commission inquiry into industry practices, and a code of conduct for supermarkets, Safe Food Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says.
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Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has called on the Government to commission a review of the evidence of health effects from mercury in CFL lamps, from an independent specialist toxicologist, following the article in this issue of Investigate magazine.
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News that public transport use is at a record high – with a 34 percent rise in Auckland rail passengers – is a golden opportunity for the Government to build on this trend and further encourage commuters to leave their cars at home, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.
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AUCKLAND — The Green Party today welcomes news that the Environment Court has moved to put more safeguards around protection of Long Bay Regional Park.
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