Parliament and Politics Relations

This page has all our releases relating to parliament and politics.

Meet the Green MPs
Find out about the Greens' work in Parliament

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A Party Vote for the Green Party is a vote for:

A Party Vote for the Green Party is a vote for:

  • reducing NZ’s oil dependence and climate change emissions
  • improving public transport and the rail system
  • cleaning up our waterways
  • increased protection of threatened species and ecosystems

Obama’s win is a rejection of rightwing politics

The victory of Barack Obama in the United States presidential election is a rejection of old rightwing politics. George Bush effectively blocked moves to take action against climate change. With a new, more reasonable President in the Oval Office we hope the world will see big steps towards this major challenge being addressed.

Another town, another highway

The Green Party today warned communities along the path of John Key’s election schedule to cancel all appointments with the would-be Prime Minister or risk having a multi-lane highway fast-tracked through their town.
 

Shining a spotlight on government

The Green Party has today launched an ambitious and comprehensive Open Government policy to expose Government decision-making to closer public scrutiny. Co-Leader Russel Norman says the aim is to make central and local government much more transparent and democratic.

Act’s zero tolerance for original ideas

While the Green Party are pleased we are so high in the polls that Act is spending its small broadcasting allocation to attack us, we’d much rather they observed their own policy of ‘zero tolerance for crime’, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.

Key cornered on different ETS versions

John Key’s attempts to evade discussing his party’s position on the Emissions Trading Scheme came to an abrupt end today when he was cornered by Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons in a Paraparaumu mall.

Greens outline approach for post-election talks

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.

Winston’s migrant bashing won’t work: Greens

Winston Peters’ scaremongering about immigration won’t work this time around, Green Party Immigration Spokesperson Keith Locke says.

“It’s silly to talk about cutting immigration when net migration is at a very low level, only 4900 migrants in the August 2008 year - down from 8,700 from 2007 - and employers are still screaming out for skilled workers,” Mr Locke says.