Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand

Green Summer Holidays

Picnic for the Planet 2010

Postcard from Copenhagen

This week we celebrate our 10th birthday;  10 years of the Green Party in Parliament. Technically it might be an anniversary, but birthday sounds more fun.  Green MPs Keith Locke, Sue Kedgley and co-leaders Russel Norman and Metiria Turei tell us about an extraordinary start in 1999, their personal highlights over the last decade plus their sense of what might happen in the next 10 years.

Green New Deal: Win-Win-Win

Racing Greens

This week Green MP Kevin Hague explores the line between free speech and hate speech through the recent case of Beenie Man and the Big Day Out...yes it's a serious discussion provoked by someone called Beenie Man

Work and income and the culture of disrespect

The National Government are poised to do the unthinkable—open up our most treasured places, our national parks and reserves—to mining. Can they be serious? Didn't we have this fight 100 years ago? Do New Zealanders really believe that no place is sacred if there's a goldmine or a coalmine sitting underneath it? I talked to a number of Green MPs to find out why they treasure our last remaining wild spaces.

Green MPs pay tribute to Sue Bradford

How CoOL is that?

These are good times to own a bus company in Wellington. One company, Infratil, owns more than 90% of the bus market here. Whenever the regional council puts up a tender for a new bus service, there's only ever one bidder. It's a virtual transport monopoly and Wellington's ratepayers are paying up to 20% more than they should be to subsidise our bus services. When Greater Wellington recently announced their intentions to hold their first ever competitive tender in the Hutt Valley, Infratil announced plans to register their own service in the same area. Their move, which for reasons that will become clear, undermines the tender.  Is this monopoly behaviour from our bus provider, Infratil? I talked to Green Party transport spokesperson Jeanette Fitzsimons to find out.

Mining: Fighting Talk

Greg Paterson is the Auckland cyclist fighting for his life in hospital. He's one of about 200 cyclists who will be seriously injured or killed on our roads this year. He's also one of the huge majority of cyclists that gets injured or killed through no fault of their own. What has been this Government's response to date on creating both safer places for cyclists to ride and changing the attitudes of the drivers who are hurting them? Green MP and cycling advocate, Kevin Hague, has some answers.

This week Sue Bradford who has just announced her retirement as an MP talks about some of her achievements over a decade in Parliament. They are many and varied and include a unique trifecta.