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Metiria Turei MP


Ngati Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Ati Hau nui a Paparangi.
The youngest of the Green MPs, Metiria was elected to Parliament in 2002 after a colourful career spanning resource management law, anarcho-feminist performance, political internship with the ALCP and the McGillicuddies and unemployed rights activism. "My personal political journey has led me to the reasonable conclusion that the present state has no legitimacy and that it must ultimately be transformed into a system which implements Te Tiriti o Waitangi."

Green Party Spokesperson on: Conservation, Disability Issues, Education, Fisheries, Health (Assoc Alcohol & Drugs), Justice, Maori and Treaty Issues, Youth, Constitutional issues.

What's New?

Removing cap on fees will further knee-cap students

27 Nov 2008

The Green Party is pleased the Government will not burden students with more debt by abolishing the cap on student fees.

A call from the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee for universities to set the cost of courses – getting rid of the cap – will lead to increased student debt, and must be rejected.

Time to repeal seabed and foreshore laws is now: Greens

17 Nov 2008

The Green Party is calling on the new National-led Government to immediately repeal the controversial foreshore and seabed legislation.

All four of the Government parties – National, Act, United Future and the Maori Party – voted against the foreshore and seabed legislation but nobody has agreed to repeal it, Green Party Maori Issues Spokesperson Metiria Turei says.

Dumb, Dumb and Dumber: Three strikes policy = ignorance

13 Nov 2008

Green Party Justice Spokesperson Metiria Turei supports the concerns of the Rethinking Crime and Punishment organisation about the cost of ACT’s three strikes imprisonment policy.

Jobs and housing top priority for Maori

12 Nov 2008

Green Party Maori Issues Spokesperson Metiria Turei has reminded Maori leaders that job and housing security for Maori are on a razor-edge and can be either undermined or further advanced, depending on National-Act economic policy.

Greens clean up in environment poll

03 Nov 2008

The Green Party’s huge lead in a major environmental poll gives a clear indication of where we stand on environmental issue - out in front by a long way, Green Party’s Conservation Spokesperson Metiria Turei says.
 

Worst for last in Nats’ Prisons policy

28 Oct 2008

The National Party has saved the worst for last in their Prisons policy - that they ‘will allow competitive tendering for the management of prisons on a case-by-case basis’, the Green Party says.

Arts, Culture and Heritage

28 Oct 2008

Art inspires, innovates and challenges, embodies ideas, and reveals truths. These functions might be expressed in a poem, a moko, a movement in dance or drama, a stroke of colour on canvas, an opera, a multi-media presentation, or an installation. While we often associate the arts as being within the realm of literary or performing and fine arts, the Green Party recognises the broader base of arts including: crafts, screen arts, new media, architecture, computer graphics and design, and alternative media.

Election 2008: The Green Party Maori Candidates

25 Oct 2008

With 8 Maori candidates the Green Party is fielding a strong Maori team committed to te Tiriti o Waitangi, te Taiao me nga tangata katoa.

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