Community and Voluntary Sector
Mind the Gap public meeting in Lower Hutt
Where: To be confirmed
Metiria Turei will speak about 'Mind the Gap', the Greens' package of measures to deal with growing inequality in Aotearoa New Zealand
Charities overshadowed by deregistration
If the line drawn by the Charities Commission means Plunket just scrapes through as a charity while the National Council of Women (NCWNZ) has been threatened with deregistration, then the law needs to be changed, the Green Party said today.
Lost opportunity for whanau and New Zealand
The National Government’s failure to invest in Whanau Ora could doom it to failure, said the Green Party today.
Will Whanau Ora address inequality?
Whanau Ora may help address inequality if the right funding and structures are in place, said the Green Party today.
Beneficiaries get no love or respect from Paula
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett needs to stop blaming beneficiaries and start working with them, the Green Party said today.
Metiria Performs Ngakau Warrior at the exhibition opening of Jean Kahui's 'Of Women Born'
Where: The West Foyer, The Beehive, Parliament
Metiria is performing Ngakau Warrior at the exhibition opening 'Of Women Born'. A film of the event and Metiria's performance will be available on the Greens website later in the week for those who cannot make it.
“I wrote Ngakau Warrior in 2003 for the Green Room 002: Wahine cd release from Loop Recordings. It is a piece about the complexity and inconsistency of womens experience, the complicated relationships women have with their lovers, with Papatuanuku and Hine-Ahu-One and claims our right to be as complicated, inconsistent and staunch as we please and celebrates it all.”
Residents need to know – ‘where are the cell tower sites’?
Green Party MP Sue Kedgley is calling on Telecom, Vodafone and NZ Communications to publicly release their lists of proposed sites for new cell phone towers, to inform local residents before they are constructed.
Asset stripping not good for Wellington community: Greens
Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says news that the Mount Victoria community centre Crossways has been sold to a private buyer is devastating and she is incredulous the Wellington City Council allowed this valuable and well used community asset to be sold.
“This is terrible news for the community, and for volunteers who have spent thousands of hours trying to save Crossways.
