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The Green Party supports the Yes Vote campaign - vote yes in the referendum on child discipline. 

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For those of you who couldn't make it to one of the Green Party seminars on the Resource Managment Act, here is Dr Russel Norman's powerpoint presentation 'The Thin Green Line: Protecting the RMA'.

The National Party love to talk about how the Resource Management Act is a major impediment to infrastructure development. 

In the Cypress Mine appeal the Buller Conservation Group joined Forest & Bird as an interested party.  The Buller Conservation Group applied for Environmental Legal Aid to fund a lawyer, an ecologist and a landscape architect.  This helped the environmental movement present a well rounded case.

The RMA categorises planned activities. The Resource Management (Streamlining and Simplifying) Bill removes the ‘Non-complying’ category, which is for activities that require a higher standard than control or discretion, but are not prohibited. After 3 years all ‘non-complying’ activities not yet re-categorised will default to weaker protection.