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Take action
Same pay for the same job
Send a message to the Minister of Labour asking her to support Catherine Delahunty's Equal Pay Amendment Bill. Send e-card | Read Bill
Reject the Welfare Working Group report
Ask the Minister for Social Development to reject the Welfare Working Group report. Send e-card
Warm, Healthy Rentals: send an eCard to John Key
There are at least 1 million substandard homes in New Zealand and rental properties are generally the worst performing of these. We are calling on the Government to create performance standards which ensure warm, healthy, rentals.
Read about the warm, healthy rentals campaign | Send an eCard | Tell us your flatting horror stories
Events
Public Meeting with Keith Locke - New Zealand's place in the world
Monday 29 August, 7:30 - 9:00pm -
Community Centre, Golden Bay, Tasman
Looking after the Long-Term: The Green Party's Economic Vision
With Sue Kedgley and Kennedy Graham
Wednesday 31 August, 7:30-8:30pm
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Karori Community Centre, 235 Karori Road, Wellington
Podcasts
Sue and Keith: 12 years campaigning from Parliament
At the 2011 election, Sue Kedgley and Keith Locke, lifelong campaigners and two of our longest standing Green MPs, will be standing down after 12 years in Parliament. Listen to podcast...
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Blog posts
Beware "the racial bogeyman!" - by David Clendon
The editorial in this week's NBR puts an ill-informed boot into Maoridom in a manner that would bring joy to Don Brash - in fact for all I know he may have written it! Read more...
Speeches
Kevin Hague - General Debate Mine Saftey - Kevin Hague MP, 24 August 2011
In the 1980s and 1990s New Zealand experienced a wave of change underpinned by the boneheaded idea that if Government took a hands-off attitude towards more or less everything, free-market competition between unregulated companies would somehow magically produce the best outcomes for everyone. Watch video or read transcript...
Oral questions
Kevin Hague to the Minister of Labour on additional mining inspectors - Kevin Hague MP, 24 August 2011
When will the new chief inspector for mining and additional inspectors in the planned High Hazards Unit become operational? Watch video or read transcript...
Kevin Hague to the Minister of Labour on health and safety standards in mines - Kevin Hague MP, 24 August 2011
Does she agree that the test of practicability in the Health and Safety in Employment (Mining-Underground) Regulations 1999 is likely to result in different mines having different safety standards, in contrast to the regulations in place until 1992? Watch video or read transcript...
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