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The Greens are welcoming the National Party’s movement away from denying environmental problems, as revealed in their environment policy announcement today, but are concerned that it seems to be replaced with an attempt to delay any progress to address these environmental problems.

The Green Party is calling for more detail from the National Party on their environment policy after reading the partial policy draft leaked yesterday.

“The Green Party agrees that New Zealand’s environment is being badly managed by the current Government. The question is: what does National plan to do to manage it better?

A Citizens' Forum will be established to consider matters of election and political party funding, as part of an agreement between the Green Party and the Government during the negotiations around the Electoral Finance Act, the Green Party announced today.

Green Party MP Keith Locke is disappointed that Auckland City’s transport committee today voted against a walkway and cycleway over the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

"It is a victory for narrow, conservative thinking," Mr Locke, the Party’s Spokesperson on Auckland Transport Issues, says.

The Green Party is calling on Medsafe to use its powers under the Medicines Act to fast-track a safe alternative thyroid drug for the hundreds of New Zealanders reporting adverse reactions after being changed to a new formulation of thyroid medication Eltroxin.

Auckland City Councillor Paul Goldsmith’s "blame the victim" response to the homeless is the worst way to handle New Zealand’s housing crisis, the Green Party says.