Disability Issues Sector

Metiria Turei MP has just released the Party’s Disability Policy: Removing the barriers. “This policy sets out our key policy steps to remove the legal and social barriers that people with disabilities face every day.” Mrs Turei says.
Go to our Disability Policy
Read Metiria'a Speech

Green Party MP Sue Bradford will be asking questions of the Social Development Minister in Parliament today about Work and Income treatment of sickness and invalid beneficiaries in the Opotiki-Whakatane district.

"The only good thing about National's support for work for the dole, is that it has finally made clear one element of their welfare strategy should they become Government," Green Party Social and Economic Justice Spokesperson Sue Bradf

The Green Party is repeating its call for mandatory reporting and publication of adverse events in New Zealand hospitals in the wake of the Health and Disability Commissioner's report into system failures that led to a patient's death.

Banning a special needs child from attending a school camp because he has a disability is discriminatory and legally dubious, Green Party Disability Issues Spokesperson Metiria Turei says.

Sufferers of some serious illnesses may soon have the option of being prescribed cannabis to help alleviate their symptoms, the Green Party says.

For too long some people with acute mental illnesses have wound up on the streets or in prisons rather than receiving proper care and treatment, the Green Party says.