Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand

Taxing Investment Properties

This week we go out on a LIM, talking toxic clean up with Green MP Catherine Delahunty. We have good news, we have bad news, and we have a very simple question with no clear answer. 

The Government says tackling climate change would be very very expensive and they've got the economic studies to prove it.  But Green Party co-leader Russel Norman invited economist Geoff Bertram to take us through the maths and what they find is very very interesting. 

We talk about the Resource Management Act and the Government's RMA Amendment Bill which sounds deadly dull but is THE battleground for environmental protection in New Zealand.

What you do in government and what you do in opposition are two very different things and apparently they don't have to have any logical connection...At least that's the way it looked this week as Labour flipped and National flopped on an important issue of state.

 This week, the Prime Minister gives a demonstration of dog whistling to the right while leaning ever-so-slightly to the left...John Key says he's going to save New Zealand's youth from a life time on the dole...Green MP Sue Bradford responds.

This week the story of two Green Party-sponsored Members' Bills that both went before the House on the same night and suffered very different fates.  We ask the question why one gets the support of Government and one is defeated at first reading.

Are we being ripped off by our banks?

This week Green Co-Leader Russel Norman returned from a three-week trip to the USA to look at Green energy projects. He's came home with a twinkle in his eye and a new fascination for the bacteria living in the stomachs of cows. I simply had to find out more...

Green MP Kennedy Graham is on a mission to outlaw war. This week, he took his first significant step towards that end with the launch of his Member's Bill, the International Non-Aggression and the Lawful Use of Force Bill. I talk to Kennedy about the likelihood of achieving his vision for a world free of aggression and conflict.

National has just cut $19 million of funding for the Greens' Enviroschools programme. Does this mark the end of one of our most successful initiatives? I talk to Green Education Spokesperson Catherine Delahunty on the fate of teaching for a sustainable future.

A Strange Way to Run a Democracy

Metiria Steps Up

Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad: Sue Kedgley on Pigs