Green Party

The Government should release a timetable for the roll out of universal student allowances, Green Party Tertiary Education Spokesperson Metiria Turei says.

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A report in the ‘New Zealand Herald’ this morning that Australian NGO corporate Mission Australia is keen to bring its work for dole programmes into New Zealand should ring major alarm bells about what may await beneficiaries, and the community and voluntary sector, in the event of a National victory.

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The Green Party is disappointed that Australia’s proposed emissions trading scheme will not provide a model for New Zealand.

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NEW PLYMOUTH — The outcome of a case where a New Plymouth furniture company was convicted under the Fair Trading Act of falsely declaring products ‘New Zealand made’ underlines the importance of maintaining the integrity of the brand, the Green Party says.

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Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman is describing Transit’s 10 Year Transport Plan, which proposes spending 230 times more on roads than on cycle and walking infrastructure, as 1960s style transport thinking.

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The Government needs to step in and help struggling New Zealanders, by increasing benefit levels and extending the $60 a week in work payment, in light of today's announcement of record high food prices, the Green Party says.

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A Green Party analysis of Land Transport New Zealand economic evaluations shows that the Government systematically discriminates against public transport projects, including pricing petrol at $1 dollar a litre.

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The Green Party says the Government needs to explain why the numbers of animals who were forced to endured very severe suffering during experimentation almost doubled last year.

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The Green Party encourages the Government to move as quickly as possible on plans to assemble new KiwiRail locomotives in New Zealand, says Regional Economic Development Spokesperson Sue Bradford.

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AUCKLAND — Auckland Green Party MP Keith Locke hails the new Helensville-Auckland passenger service, after travelling on the inaugural train this morning.

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Reports from around New Zealand of overcrowding on buses and trains is evidence of a creaking and groaning public transport system that desperately needs to pick up the pace, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says.

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Predictions from prestigious Australian research institute CSIRO that petrol could cost up to AUS$8 – about NZ$10 – per litre within a decade means we need to rapidly change course to avoid serious economic disarray, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says.

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WELLINGTON — Reports today that the cost of Transmission Gully cannot be met by the local and regional councils come as no surprise to the Green Party, Wellington Transport Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says.

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The Green Party welcomes the unambiguous statement today by the Royal Society of New Zealand’s expert committee on climate.

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The Green Party is concerned that residues of the highly toxic and controversial insecticide Endosulfan have been found in lettuce, strawberries and courgettes sold in New Zealand.

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New Zealand’s ambulance service is underfunded, under-staffed, lacks strategic direction, regulatory oversight or national clinical standards, and relies too heavily on volunteers, the Green Party’s minority report says.

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Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says that National's Broadcasting Policy, announced today is likely to add further commercial pressure to an already fragile public broadcasting environment.

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Green Party MP Sue Bradford is alarmed at indications the National Party has plans that could silence local NGOs on social issues.

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Green Party MP Keith Locke wants the Government to ensure the Black Caps tour of Zimbabwe doesn’t go ahead.

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AUCKLAND — Green Party Tertiary Education Spokesperson, Metiria Turei, joined students in Auckland this morning in a march down Queen Street against student debt and fees.

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It is madness that the Environmental Risk Management Authority is risking New Zealand’s meat and dairy exports by continuing to allow the use of a highly toxic insecticide which is banned or heavily restricted in more than 50 countries, the Green Party says.

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The Green Party welcomes minor changes to supplementary assistance for beneficiaries announced today, but says they fail to address fundamental faults in the benefit system.

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It is time to stop subsidising the trucking industry and price transport on a level playing field if New Zealand is to make the transition to a sustainable economy, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

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Reports that Colombian Green Party politician Ingrid Betancourt, along with three American citizens, has been rescued from FARC militia after six years in captivity have been greeted with enthusiasm by the New Zealand Green Party.

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Green Party Police Spokesperson Keith Locke wants the Police Commissioner to review the way his officers are using pepper spray.

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Word for word submissions from Landcorp and Federated Farmers opposing improvements to water quality in the Manawatu and Wanganui regions rivers to make them safe to swim in, smell of a hijack, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says.

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John Key has finally responded to Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons open letter in which she requested details of Nationals preferred Emissions Trading Scheme.

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WELLINGTON — Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says she is shocked to learn that Wellington children will no longer have a reduced fare in the central city, and that some train fares are to increase by over 30 dollars a month.

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Fairfax has a journalistic responsibility to keep editing jobs in our communities and regions ahead of short term cost cutting, Green Party Employment Spokesperson Sue Bradford says.

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Green Party MP Keith Locke wants New Zealand to back Britain in getting Zimbabwe cricket kicked out of the World Twenty20 next year.

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The Green Party says it is shocked ERMA has recommended the continued use of endosulfan, a highly toxic chemical banned in many western countries, and is calling on the Minister for the Environment to review the decision.

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Green MP Sue Kedgley hopes flexible working patterns will become the norm and the rigid nine to five working week will gradually become a thing of the past, once the new flexible working right comes into force on Tuesday 1 July.

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The Labour Government has yet again let down New Zealanders and the environment this time by back-tracking on its promise to protect New Zealands oceans.

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The Labour Government has yet again let down New Zealanders and the environment this time by back-tracking on its promise to protect New Zealand’s oceans.

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The Green Party has renewed calls for a Commerce Commission investigation into supermarket pricing practises and has revealed the large mark ups that supermarkets have placed on two Kiwi staples.

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Green Party MP Keith Locke is concerned at the lack of accountability by the Ministry of Defence and Defence Force regarding cost blowouts of almost $400 million on key defence projects, identified in an Auditor General’s report released today.

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Green Party Spokesperson for Mental Health Issues, Sue Bradford, says the case of four police officers acquitted of assaulting a man in custody demonstrates systemic problems in the force when it comes to dealing appropriately with people with mental health issues.

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A new employment right to request flexible working arrangements comes into effect on 1 July 2008, as a result of a members Bill from Green Party MP Sue Kedgley.

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Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons told a conference on carbon neutrality and sustainability in the Public Sector that under the Govt3 waste system Ministerial Offices have - for over a year - diligently been separating organic waste, only for it to be landfilled.

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Farmers would profit from involvement in the Emissions Trading Scheme, reinforcing the Green Partys insistence that farming be included in the Bill earlier than 2013, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

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WELLINGTON — With petrol costing over $US130 a barrel, it makes no sense to build a billion dollar motorway, especially one along an earthquake fault line, Green Party Wellington Transport Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says.

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The sustainability clause in the new Biofuel Bill, reported back from select committee today, is the strictest in the world, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

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The National Party has gone on record for a second time today opposing sustainability and lower energy prices for households.

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The anti-whaling message of hundreds of New Zealanders is being sent to the Japanese media today, to coincide with the start of the International Whaling Commission conference in Chile.

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Green MP Sue Bradford is calling on political parties and the voting public to reject calls to turn back the clock in response to the launch of the extra signatures on the petition opposing changes to the law on child discipline at Parliament today.

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WELLINGTON CITY — Green Party MP Nandor Tanczos valedictory speech and Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman’s maiden speech have been scheduled for the upcoming fortnight.

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Green Party MP Keith Locke criticises Israel for deporting New Zealand peace activist Harmeet Sooden.

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The Green Party is challenging National Leader John Key to come clean on what kind of emissions trading scheme his party would introduce if it becomes Government later this year.

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The release of a live genetically engineered virus would kill New Zealand’s ‘GE free’ status and, as discovered with possums and didymo, create huge risks through a lack of containment, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

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The Green Party is horrified that two South Island seafood companies may be granted permits to bring in migrant labour just weeks after 323 jobs were axed from Sealords Nelson mussel factory.

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The Greens have succeeded with several improvements in the Emissions Trading legislation at select committee stage and so voted for the Bill to return to the House for further consideration.

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AUCKLAND — The Government should underwrite the funding stream for the electrification of the Auckland rail system so new electric trains can be ordered now, the Green Party says.

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The Green Party is calling for an independent and public investigation of allegations that counterfeit pesticides are being widely imported and used in New Zealand, and for a significant increase in testing to detect for illegal or counterfeit pesticides.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Green Party MP Metiria Turei expresses her deepest sorrow to the whanau of Monte Ohia who passed away in Christchurch last night.

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A backroom deal between the Government and the agriculture sector has gutted the industry’s voluntary emissions targets and directly contradicts Government policy, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has revealed.

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The Green Party says that regulating cell phone use in cars is a long awaited move that will make New Zealand roads safer and undoubtedly save lives.

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The Government urgently needs to shift funding from new motorways into better public transport, says Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.

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The Green Party says most consumers could reduce their energy consumption without any reduction in comfort or convenience just by thinking ahead.

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It is inappropriate for the president of the World Organisation for Animal Health to go in to bat for genetic engineering, says the Green Party.

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Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has answered John Key's call to lower the OCR to counter high oil prices by saying that is like trying to catch a fish with a teaspoon.

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Green Party Conservation Spokesperson Metiria Turei is calling on the Minister of Fisheries to ban the barbaric practice of shark finning, and put New Zealand law in line with that of other developed countries.

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Climate change is the Issue of our Generation and it’s vital that politicians show leadership when confronting this challenge, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

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Green Party MP Sue Bradford welcomed news this morning that the New Zealand Health Survey has found physical punishment is one of the least used methods of child discipline.

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New travel regulations for Kiwis visiting the United States have been criticised by Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson, Keith Locke, as ‘bureaucracy gone mad’.

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AUCKLAND — Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today launched a Menu for Change - a basket of goodies designed to ensure New Zealanders have access to affordable, healthy food, in her speech to the Partys Annual Conference today.

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Green Party Safe Food Spokesperson Sue Kedgley is attending the High Level World Food Security Conference in Rome next week, as a member of the New Zealand delegation.

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The Maui’s and Hector’s Threat Management Plan announced by the Minister of Fisheries today has failed to guarantee the survival of these endangered species, Green Party Conservation Spokesperson Metiria Turei says.

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It’s crazy to catch fish in New Zealand, then ship it to China for processing, before bringing the finished product back to New Zealand for sale, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

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Heavier trucks on New Zealand roads will endanger the lives of other road users and undermine incentives to use safe and sustainable transport such as rail and shipping, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says.

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Green Party MP Metiria Turei is delighted to support Youth Week and especially Hoodie Day.

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Acquittals in three high profile criminal cases have reinforced the need for the establishment of a public prosecutor’s office, the Green Party says.

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The Green Party is bitterly disappointed in the Government’s Department of Conservation staff cuts announced today.

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New discoveries about the rate at which the Canadian Arctic ice cap is breaking up should inspire urgency in our efforts to address climate change, says Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.

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News that an extra 1600 New Zealanders die every winter due mostly to cold, damp and poorly maintained homes underpins the significance of the Green Party’s successful Budget initiative to insulate all state houses, Greens Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

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Government Spokesperson on Energy Efficiency and Conservation, Jeanette Fitzsimons, today announced that 31 projects with a combined value of $950,000 have been offered funding under the second round of a government fund to encourage smart innovations in solar water heating and heat pump water heating technologies.

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BAY OF PLENTY — Green Party MP Sue Bradford will be asking questions of the Social Development Minister in Parliament today about Work and Income treatment of sickness and invalid beneficiaries in the Opotiki-Whakatane district.

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The Green Party strongly supports the Broadcasting Minister’s decision to require TVNZ to have to bid for any future Charter funding in a transparent way through New Zealand on Air.

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Chickens worldwide must be in a terrible condition, if New Zealand chickens have the best animal welfare standards in the world, Green MP Sue Kedgley says.

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AUCKLAND — Green Party 2008 Annual Conference Friday May 30 to Monday June 2, (with workshop details) at University of Auckland’s Waipapa Marae, and some sessions at Owen Glenn building.

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While the Green Party welcomes news that the Government is considering some relief for beneficiaries in the wake of last week's Budget, it says the changes are not enough.

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A Family First survey released today that shows 48 percent of parents still smack their children actually highlights a massive improvement in attitudes over the past year, Green Party MP Sue Bradford says.

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News that life saving medical devices used in New Zealand have been found to be coated with contaminated blood thinning pharmaceutical Heparin is a huge concern, the Green Party says.

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Green Party Tertiary Education Spokesperson, Metiria Turei, has labeled the meager tertiary concessions in the 2008 budget as ridiculous.

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Almost $100 million has been secured by the Green Party in the 2008 budget, comprising their largest budget package ever.

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Green MP Sue Kedgley questions economist and investor Gareth Morgan about food safety standards and the Green Party's call for country of origin food labelling.

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New Zealand On Air’s latest Annual Local Content report shows that the amount of New Zealand programming on free to air prime-time television is declining, the Green Party says.

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Green Party MP Nandor Tanczos will remain in Parliament till the 2008 election.

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A viral video released by the Green Party has received nearly 3000 ‘hits’ in three weeks, one of them from a new subscriber to the Green Party’s online channel - ‘johnkey2008’.

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Two important conservation programmes will get a major funding boost of $12 million, thanks to the Green Party’s successful Budget initiative.

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With 320 job losses at Sealord’s Nelson mussel factory and 138 meatworks jobs going from Dunedin, Thursday’s budget needs to raise benefits and rebuild local economies, Green Party Regional Development Spokesperson Sue Bradford says.

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John Key's approach to climate change policy has all the urgency of a methane-emitting cow chewing its cud, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

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To Launch their new campaign “Some things are bigger than politics” the Green Party of New Zealand have released a humorous viral video through Youtube and their Green Party website.

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Last night’s Budget announcement that the taxpayer will put $9 million dollars into prize money for premier racing over the next three years shows how skewed the Government’s approach to racing has become, Green Party Racing Spokesperson Sue Bradford says.

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Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley welcomes the fact that the industry has taken the initiative on children’s advertising, but is disappointed that the new guidelines apply to so few hours in a day, in addition to having so many opportunities for the industry to exercise a right of veto.

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Green Party MP Nandor Tanczos calls on Landcorp to support New Zealand sheep farmers by trialling organic sheep farming methods rather than leading the shift to dairy conversion.

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The Green Party has ensured that five years from now all State House tenants will be living in insulated homes.

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Green Party Conservation Spokesperson Metiria Turei says the Minister has displayed flawed reasoning in declining to call in the Mokihinui Hydro Proposal under the Resource Management Act.

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The Green Party has secured $4 million funding over four years to establish a comprehensive antibiotic resistant surveillance system in New Zealand.

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Additional funding of $2.4 million over four years secured by the Green Party in Budget 2008 will improve the monitoring and testing of foods that are imported into New Zealand.

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The extent of inaccurate and false information of food labels calls into question the credibility of the entire food labelling system, following research which shows that nearly 58 percent of food samples tested showed inaccurate information on nutrient levels, Green Party Safe Food Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says.

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