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The revelations in the latest Investigate magazine that Air New Zealand has been flying Australian combat troops across the Pacific and up to the Iraqi border is an appalling piece of misjudgement by the airline, Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke says.

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GORE — Plans by Solid Energy for a “multi-billion” dollar lignite-based liquid fuel plant in Southland will make a joke of New Zealand’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Green Party says.

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BLENHEIM — Green Party Consumer Affairs Spokesperson Sue Kedgley is taking her Country of Origin Labelling campaign to Blenheim on Thursday.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke has been shocked to hear that Iranian hunger striker Ali Panah has been handcuffed to a guard while lying in Auckland hospital.

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There will be one last chance for Parliament to amend Green Party MP Sue Bradford’s private member’s bill, originally aimed at abolishing wage discrimination for 16 and 17-year-old workers, when it undergoes its committee stages debate in the House this afternoon.

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Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley is delighted that the natural health sector has come up with the outline of a New Zealand based regulatory system for natural health products.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Green MP Keith Locke today expressed concern about the deteriorating health of Iranian hunger striker, Ali Panah, after visiting him in Auckland hospital.

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Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is disappointed that ERMA has not properly studied and evaluated the long term toxicity of 1080 in their report released today.

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Green Party Safe Food Spokesperson Sue Kedgley is delighted that Foodstuffs New Zealand has agreed to label its meat, fish, fruit and vegetables, in response to overwhelming consumer demand generated in part, by the Greens’ campaign for mandatory country of origin labelling.

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The Green Party has come out against criticism of Maori Party MP Hone Harawira for leaving a select committee working trip to Victoria on election finance and victims rights, in order to go to Alice Springs to discuss the plight of Aboriginal communities under attack in the Northern Territory “The situation Hone went to see and discuss with the people affected is one of the most serious setbacks in Australia’s relationship with indigenous peoples in decades, and Hone can now give New Zealanders a first hand report on just what is happening up there, and on what the people concerned feel that the outside world can best do to help,” Greens’ Maori Affairs Spokesperson Metiria Turei says.

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WEST COAST — The Greens are thrilled the Environment Court has upheld the Buller River Water Conservation Order which was threatened by a power project planned for the Gowan River, one of our most significant waterways and the mighty Buller River’s major tributary.

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The Green Party has rejected the rushed timeframe for the Environment Ministry’s controversial proposed National Standards for Telecommunications Facilities, and is calling for the public to be offered the same timeframe to make submissions on the proposals as the telecommunications industry has enjoyed.

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The Green Party is shocked and surprised to hear the Government has plans to scrap country of origin labelling for footwear and clothes.

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Tuesday’s proposals by Climate Change Minister David Parker on how permits will be allocated under New Zealand’s proposed emissions trading scheme have been criticised by Green Party Co- Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons for effectively bypassing Parliament, and leaving the key decisions in the hands of officials or Cabinet.

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Scientists’ conclusion that the Yangtze River dolphin or Baiji is functionally extinct is a cautionary reminder to New Zealanders that several of our rare marine mammals face the same fate.

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Green Party Immigration Spokesperson Keith Locke has criticised the Immigration Bill tabled today that gives immigration officials the power to subject New Zealand travellers to random biometric identity checks, and to use secret information in immigration proceedings.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke is giving moral support to the sacked Auckland University lecturer Paul Buchanan.

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The Greens are joining the call of Victoria university students protesting the Government’s failure to deliver on their promise of increased access to student allowances.

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The Green Party will seek leave of the House to introduce new laws to keep Auckland International Airport in New Zealand hands following government statements in the New Zealand Herald today that it is opposed to foreign ownership of this strategic asset.

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National Party leader John Key's solutions to the housing affordability crisis are outdated, unworkable and contrary to principles of environmental and social sustainability, Green Party Housing Spokesperson Sue Bradford says.

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AUCKLAND CITY — The Green Party is urging Fletcher Building and its Laminex Group subsidiary to reconsider the proposed closure of its Penrose hard and soft board plant, which will result in the loss of 65 jobs.

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The Greens are welcoming the overwhelming support for their Country of Origin labelling campaign, just one day after it was launched.

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The Green Party is calling for stronger policies on fuel efficiency and public transport, as well as a moratorium on new coal mines, if New Zealand is to stabilise its greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Green Party has congratulated Gull on being first to launch an ethanol blend biofuel product on the New Zealand market, and has called on the motor industry to stop trying to impede progress on climate change.

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Green Party Consumer Affairs Spokesperson Sue Kedgley is calling for a review of New Zealand's consumer protection regulations and practices as another toy company embarks on a huge world wide recall.

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The Green Party is concerned that even Acting Minister of Social Development Steve Maharey may be falling prey to the latest round of beneficiary-bashing.

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The Green Party is today kicking off a nationwide campaign calling for mandatory Country of Origin labelling on a range of foods.

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Green MP Sue Kedgley is calling for genuine cross party talks on how best to regulate dietary supplements in New Zealand, in the wake of the war of words issuing from National and Labour today.

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Green Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke is disappointed that Foreign Minister Winston Peters did not call for the release of democracy leader Aung San Sun Kyi in the press statement he issued following his dialogue in Manila yesterday with Burmese foreign minister U Nyan Win.

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Green Party Aviation spokesperson Sue Kedgley has drafted an Overseas Investment (Restriction on Foreign Ownership) private members bill that seeks to limit foreign ownership of key strategic assets such as Auckland International Airport.

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“The only good thing about National’s support for work for the dole, is that it has finally made clear one element of their welfare strategy should they become Government,” Green Party Social and Economic Justice Spokesperson Sue Bradford says.

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Each of us need to take responsibility and action to stop violence against children wherever and whenever we see it happening, including within our own families, Green Party MP Sue Bradford says.

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The recent disclosure by the Environment Minister to a group of Northland and Auckland councils that central Government takes no responsibility for GE crops that go wrong confirms the Green Party position that no release of GE organisms should be allowed, the Greens’ Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

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Green Party MP Sue Kedgley has welcomed the progress made on her Flexible Working Arrangements Bill, which has won support from the Transport and Industrial Relations committee, and will soon be debated in Parliament.

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The Green Party has welcomed the belated recognition in two Department of Internal Affairs reports released yesterday that organized crime, money laundering and problem gambling have all now got a firm foothold inside New Zealand casinos.

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The State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) Solid Energy is under serious risk of losing more public support around the country by continuing to attack people who protest against it, says Greens Conservation Spokesperson Metiria Turei.

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The Green Party is pleased their calls to expand the political parties able to participate in the parliamentary examination of the Electoral Finance Bill have been heeded by the Government, and that submissions on the legislation will now be heard by an expanded Select Committee, Greens’ Co–Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

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No political witch hunts, Greens say The Green Party is rejecting proposals for a register of the political interests of civil servants and their partners.

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In the wake of an unfortunate decision on a welfare case in the Supreme Court last week, Green MP Sue Bradford has drafted a new member’s bill.

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Green MP Nandor Tanczos is reminding parents and local governments that the advantages of cloth nappies still far outweigh the disadvantages.

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SOUTHLAND — The Greens are calling for urgent action over the plight of the Doubtful Sound bottlenose dolphin.

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The Minimum Wage (Abolition of Age Discrimination) Amendment Bill is back in the House today and the Green Party is urging all parties to support its process through Parliament although the bill has been altered.

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Despite promises to make election campaigns more democratic, the “corporates versus cake stalls” system remains, says Greens Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.

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WELLINGTON — The Green Party today expressed surprise that iconic racing figures such as Sir Patrick Hogan and Dave O'Sullivan would lend their names to the online gambling site 'Race-O New Zealand' set up on Saturday. "The Gambling Act passed only three years ago by this Parliament made online gaming illegal within New Zealand.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Trevor Mallard's Eden Park stadium plan has received a tentative Mexican wave from the Green Party. "This is an infinitely better idea than his previous hair-brained scheme to dump a giant round tub on the waterfront," says Keith Locke, the party's sports spokesperson.

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