The Green Party is celebrating a landmark change in the law that will ensure more people are paid what they deserve. 

Thanks to political pressure from the Green Party, environmental NGOs and recreational fishers, the Government has changed plans that would have baked into law rules that shut out the public from important fisheries decisions.

The Green Party is calling for Aotearoa New Zealand to follow the EU, UK, and Canada by imposing sanctions and restrictions on the organisations and people responsible for ongoing human rights abuses in Iran.

Labour is asking for the exact same advice on pay transparency that a Green Minister first asked for five years ago.

The Government needs to clear the debt that MSD has forced hundreds of thousands of low income people to take on and immediately lift benefits, says the Green Party.

The tools exist to lift every family out of poverty – and as costs continue to rise it is more urgent than ever that we use them, the Green Party says.

Winding down COVID powers does nothing to change the fact that stronger public health measures are needed to protect our immunocompromised and disabled whānau. 

The high rate of inflation continues to show why we must design a fairer tax system that addresses inequality, the Green Party says. 

As another month goes by with record high food prices, the Government needs to urgently increase support for people struggling to put food on the table.

Government progress to protect the health of our oceans is unacceptably slow, the Green Party says.