Parliament and Politics Relations

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

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.
 

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.

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.

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.