Wellingtonians are making it clear they want Māori place names to be restored to Wellington electorates, with more than 5,300 signatures on a petition sent to the Representation Committee today by Green Party Wellington MPs Julie Anne Genter and Tamatha Paul.

The Green Party welcomes Environment Canterbury’s decision today to carry a motion declaring a nitrate emergency, and is calling on the Government to take responsibility for the crisis its own policies have fuelled.

The Green Party has called on the Government to stop dithering and support Palestinian statehood, ahead of the UN General Assembly.

The Green Party is calling for the voting period for Māori wards to be extended after key information was left out of voting packs. 

A Member’s Bill in the name of Green Party MP Kahurangi Carter which aims to prevent deaths from drug overdose, the Drug Overdose (Assistance Protection) Legislation Bill, has been pulled from Parliament’s ‘biscuit tin’ today.

Another Emissions Trading Scheme auction has failed, throwing the Government’s failure on climate into stark focus.

Written statement from Green Party MP Benjamin Doyle (they, them): 

The Green Party celebrates te Koroneihana Tuatahi o Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po, reaffirming our shared commitment to kotahitanga, our environment, and Māoritanga.

The Government’s 300 new social housing places will fail to even begin to address the homelessness crisis in Aotearoa, says the Green Party. 

The Green Party says latest figures on people in this country without a visa show the need to provide clear pathways to residency for the many people falling through the cracks.