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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.
Parliament cannot continue to sit on its hands while the crisis in manufacturing destroys thousands of jobs and drives Kiwis overseas, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
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The majority of teachers at charter schools could be unregistered because the Government has set no minimum level, the Green Party revealed today.
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The Government Communications Security Bureau’s (GCSB) unlawful actions in regard to the Kim Dotcom case should be of concern to all New Zealanders, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
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The Key Government's under-funding of rail to pay for grandiose motorway projects is to blame for the loss of 158 jobs at Kiwirail, Green Party transport spokesperson Julie Anne Genter said today.
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The publishing today of primary school league tables based on unreliable data will be used as a defacto league table and is a big step backwards for education in New Zealand, Green Party education spokesperson Catherine Delahunty said today.
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A new study that shows too many children are suffering from poverty and deprivation highlights that the Government is doing nothing to address it, Green Party children's spokesperson Holly Walker said today.
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The growing exodus of New Zealanders for Australia is the result of National's failure to act to protect and create jobs, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
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The New Zealand Government needs to follow the lead of Austria and France who are taking action around their approval processes for genetic engineering (GE), the Green Party said today.
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Research released yesterday shows the Government's lax policy on genetic engineering is putting the health of New Zealanders at risk, the Green Party said today.
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Today's worsening current account deficit figures reveal that the National Government's goal of rebalancing the New Zealand economy is failing, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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The actions of the Government since its decision not to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling in the family carers' case are looking more and more like delaying tactics, Green MP Catherine Delahunty said today.
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The Green Party says the Government should be creating an energy strategy that reduces New Zealand's dependence on fossil fuels rather than acting as a cheerleader for the petroleum industry at their summit tomorrow.
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The Prime Minister's test for ethical behaviour has reached a new low, now it's okay to sign false documents so long as you don't check them first, the Green Party said today.
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An institutional culture of cost saving has led WINZ to the same strategy of disentitlement as ACC, said the Green Party today.
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The Government should respond to moves by the US Federal Reserve to purchase mortgage securities to put downward pressure on the overvalued dollar and stimulate the economy said the Green Party today.
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The Education Minister must explain to the people of Christchurch the criteria on which she made the decisions about which schools will stay and which will go, the Green Party said today.
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Evidence that ACC is paying some medical specialists up to half a million dollars a year, an average of up to $1666 each client, reveals huge doubts about the independence of some of the corporation's favourite doctors, the Green Party said today.
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The Green Party is worried that the Government is exploiting the crisis in Christchurch to push through their unpopular education agenda.
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The Reserve Bank's reliance on one tool - the Official Cash Rate - to deliver economic rebalancing is failing, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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Murray McCully's proposal for an ineffective Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Ross Sea focuses on protecting the fishing industry - not the environment, the Green Party said today.
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The National Government's aim of returning to surplus by 2015 will be put at risk by on-going and indefinite subsidies of major polluters if planned changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme go ahead, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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The Government's pressure on councils to cut spending is forcing them into false economies that will costs Kiwis jobs and wages, said Green Party small business spokesperson David Clendon today.
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The $300 million dollars being spent to set up a private prison is a waste of money that further pushes New Zealand down the dangerous road of privatising our justice system, said the Green Party today.
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The Green Party is calling for the National Government to drop its proposed changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) which the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE) today said would render the scheme toothless.
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The Green Party wants ordinary New Zealanders to talk with their feet and take a step to help end child poverty.
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The newly constituted ACC Board needs to demonstrate its commitment to culture change in the organisation by immediately changing the way it commissions the services of specialist medical assessors, Green Party ACC spokesperson Kevin Hague said today.
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The National Government is trampling on democracy by cancelling elections and denying Cantabrians the right to vote for their regional councillors for the second time in a row, the Green Party said today.
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The Government has revealed it is completely heartless when it comes to the 20 per cent of kids trapped in poverty, rejecting any possibility of giving the poorest kiwi kids the helping hand it gives other children, the Green Party said today.
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Public-Private Partnerships to build highway projects have been expensive failures in Australia, with the public bearing the cost, and National should not be looking to copy this failed model, Green Party transport spokesperson Julie Anne Genter said today.
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The Green Party today welcomed the Environment Court decision on the Horizons Regional Council's One Plan.
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The Government’s own numbers show the Budget will be back in surplus in 2014/15 with or without asset sales The Government's target of returning to surplus by 2014/15 will be easier to achieve if the asset sales don't go ahead, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
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The United States State Department and American multinational companies have been pushing for the release of genetically engineered food into the New Zealand environment at a biotechnology conference being held in Rotorua this week, the Green Party said today.
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National's flagship asset sale policy has been marked by mismanagement and crisis while the real economic problems facing our country have been neglected, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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The National Government continues to drag its heels on tendering the government master banking contract, the Green Party said today.
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The Government should be looking at ways to withdraw our forces in Afghanistan, as soon as possible, rather than concentrating on an arbitrary date, Green Party defence spokesperson Kennedy Graham said today.
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The delay in the sale of shares in Mighty River Power gives New Zealanders the chance to have their say in the citizens-initiated referendum and stop asset sales, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
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The Key Government needs to initiate a study into the problem gambling harm their deal with SkyCity will cause, Green Party gambling spokesperson Denise Roche said today.
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A public referendum on asset sales could be held early next year before any of the power companies are sold, the Green Party said today.
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Your vote on this bill will stand against your name forever.
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The growing gap between rich and poor in New Zealand shows why a living wage is needed, Green Party industrial relations spokesperson Denise Roche said today.
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Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty's Members Bill to close a loophole in the Resource Management Act allowing on-going pollution, passed it's first reading today.
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The National Government's decision to open the way for the patenting of software will damage our high-growth software industry and stifle innovation in the sector, the Green Party said today.
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The National Government's $45 million plan to open up more routes to 53-tonne trucks comes at the same time it is cutting spending on road safety and rail, Green Party transport spokesperson Julie Anne Genter said today.
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The Minister of Science and Innovation, Steven Joyce, needs to tell the public how much taxpayer funding is going into a conference featuring a number of pro-GE lobbyists and companies, Green Party primary production spokesperson Steffan Browning said today.
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Mighty River’s annual report reveals that it has spent $3.8m in the year to June 2012 preparing itself for sale under the Government’s asset sales agenda, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
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The Government's big idea is jobs poor and bad for the environment, said Green Party mining spokesperson Catherine Delahunty.
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National's 2010 tax cuts, that advantaged New Zealand's wealthiest citizens, have unsurprisingly failed to spur an altruistic upsurge in compliance, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
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The National Government's asset sales agenda is in crisis and it is time to give it up, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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A review of how government departments protect New Zealanders' privacy is needed after damning reports into ACC yesterday revealed wider concerns, the Green Party said today.
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Reports into ACC provide the most compelling evidence yet that the Government's focus on saving a buck has caused ACC to lose sight of its role in helping injured and vulnerable New Zealanders, the Green Party said today.
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New information shows that the energy companies that the Government is planning to sell have already spent millions preparing themselves for sale, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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New research from the Ministry of Social Development has delivered a damning assessment of the Government's economic management, showing that middle income families are now significantly worse off, and inequality at a record high, said the Green Party.
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The Government's stopped even pretending it wants to combat climate change with amendments it is making to the Emissions Trading Scheme, Green Party climate change spokesperson Kennedy Graham said today.
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A new report on child policy in the Netherlands highlights the need for a cross party action plan to tackle child poverty in New Zealand, the Green Party said today.
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The National Government's latest report on innovation has yet again ignored the critical role green innovation will play in transforming our economy onto a more sustainable footing, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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A record 53,873 people left New Zealand for Australia in the past year, showing the Key Government has failed to stop the flood of New Zealanders across the Tasman, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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“A massive expansion of Coal Seam Gas (CSG) extraction putting our environment and clean green brand at risk is not the solution to the Government’s economic woes,” said Gareth Hughes Green Party energy spokesperson.
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People of Satapuala village in New Zealand have every right to feel aggrieved and to be supportive of their families back home, the Green Party said today.
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"National MP Nick Smith is doing a disservice to the national debate on fracking," said Gareth Hughes Green Party energy spokesperson.
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The Green Party is saddened by the deaths of three New Zealand soldiers in Afghanistan yesterday, and extends its condolences to their families.
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As the Green parliamentary political parties of three nations whose governments are currently in the process of negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), we are issuing this joint statement to express our serious concern at the fundamentally undemocratic and non-transparent nature of the agreement.
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Reports that Sanford is considering abandoning American operations following its conviction for shoddy practice confirms that we need better protection, the Green Party said today.
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The decision to push ahead with the ninety million dollar Basin Reserve flyover is a significant waste of public money and a poor transport solution, says the Green Party.
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Paula Bennett is only interested in advice which supports her punitive agenda and is happy to push through policies which have perverse effects, Green Party social services spokeswoman Jan Logie said today.
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The manufacturing sector continues to decline under the National Government's economic watch, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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A decision about whether to dig up the South West New Zealand World Heritage area must be made by the responsible minister and not an official, the Green Party said today.
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"There are now so many amendments to the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Bill that it needs to go back to select committee for more scrutiny," Green Party oceans spokesperson Gareth Hughes said today.
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The Green Party today welcomed Greater Wellington Regional Council's shortlist of public transport priorities for Wellington.
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John Key should instruct Paula Bennett to act in accordance with the Privacy Act, in light of her refusal today to rule out releasing private information on benefit recipients in the future said the Green Party.
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National's new export strategy fails to address two big issues that threaten our exporters: the high New Zealand dollar and the risk to our brand posed by National's anti-environment agenda, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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A new study and the Government's own nutritional guidelines show that healthy food in schools is crucial to our children's health and learning, the Green Party said today.
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The Government has been given a once in a generation opportunity to tackle the root causes of child vulnerability and should join with all parties to create an action plan for children, the Green Party said today.
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Having repeatedly insisted that there is no transport budget crisis, Gerry Brownlee is now seeking the power to borrow to build uneconomic motorways, Green Party transport spokesperson Julie Anne Genter said today.
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Government must step in to protect Wellington Rape Crisis as it is forced to cut services to four days a week, the Green Party said today.
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The National Government's pressure on KiwiRail to become a stand-alone profit centre is short-sighted and will mean New Zealand loses the wider economic benefits of a well-maintained, publicly-owned rail network, the Green Party said today.
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The review of the Animal Welfare Act is an opportunity to improve animal welfare outcomes, that everyone should be involved in, the Green Party said today.
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The Green Party is welcoming the recommendations of the Electoral Commission in the MMP Proposal Paper released today.
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Treasury documents confirm research showing that privately-owned power companies charge more on average than publicly-owned ones, signalling future price rises if asset sales go ahead, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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The Government's plans to minimise gambling harm are completely at odds with allowing SkyCity to increase the number of pokie machines it has, Green Party gambling spokesperson Denise Roche said today.
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The Green Party is calling on other councils to follow Auckland Council's lead and support a Member's Bill that would restructure the community pokie industry.
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The latest dire unemployment statistics are a testament to the failed economic management of the Key Government, Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei said today.
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The Green Party welcomes the launch of the Outstanding Rivers campaign by Anton Oliver, and an alliance of recreational and environmental NGOs.
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On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, the Key Government needs to honour its commitments under the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP) and agree to negotiate with the pan-Maori group on water rights, Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei said today.
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The Government's plan to release National Standards data will inevitably result in schools being ranked and judged on inaccurate data, Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei said today.
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Poll results confirm that the vast majority of New Zealanders aren't interested in buying shares in assets that they already own, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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Two Australian farmers have travelled to New Zealand to warn against releasing genetically engineered (GE) crops, the Green Party said today.
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The Green Party is calling upon the Government to negotiate with the united Maori forum on water rights in good faith and genuinely consider the Waitangi Tribunal's findings, Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei said today.
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Safe families, not cost, should drive Family Court reforms, the Green Party says.
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"The fall in carbon prices, both in New Zealand and overseas, shows the Government's blind faith in the market is wrong," said Green Party climate change spokesperson Kennedy Graham.
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The Green Party welcomes the emphasis on children in Family Court reforms, but is concerned families could be locked out by the cost of accessing the cornerstone dispute resolution service, which could put women and children at risk.
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Vulnerable pupils need a strong state education system, not to be forced into schools run by corporate or religious groups that could impose their agenda while trying to make a buck from them, the Green Party said today.
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The Department of Conservation's Code of Conduct for Minimising Acoustic Disturbance to Marine Mammals from Seismic Survey Operations, released today, is too weak and ought to be mandatory the Green Party said today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The slashing of 150 jobs at the University of Canterbury is academically short sighted and bad for the local economy says the Green Party.
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A good way forward to keep local government politics clean after the recent John Banks fiasco is to lower the amount able to be donated anonymously, Green Party local government spokesperson Denise Roche said today.
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New figures show that the cost of asset sales has already passed $10 million, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today.
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The Government must reconsider the impact of its policies on women in light of the latest Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) report, Green Party women's affairs spokesperson Jan Logie said today.
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Christchurch's proposed new public facilities and spaces should not come at the cost of selling existing great public assets, the Green Party said today.
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