The Green Party is today celebrating Budget 2023 funding extending free ECE to two year olds.

A long standing Green Party policy has been extended yet again in this year’s Budget. This will deliver warmer homes for thousands of people, lower power bills, and cut climate pollution.

The Green Party is fully on board with free bus and train travel for under 12s and half price travel for under 25s - next stop, free travel for all under 18s, students, and apprentices.

Today’s Budget makes good progress on climate and inequality, but falls short of what’s needed to fix both.

The Green Party welcomes today’s release of the report of the Ministerial Inquiry into slash and sediment, and are clear that the forestry industry must foot more of the bill.

The Government needs to do much more to address supermarket profiteering, which is driving high food prices.

Yet another increase in food prices shows the urgent need for the Government to tax wealth and use the money to help people put food on the table.

Labour has once again avoided taking decisions to protect ocean health and shown exactly why we need more Green MPs.

The Green Party is calling on the Government to broaden the focus of its inquiry into KiwiRail, after widespread disruption in Auckland.

The Green Party welcomes the Government’s invitation to a Parliamentary select committee to inquire into seabed mining and whether current law and regulations are appropriate but says it would prefer faster action to ban seabed mining in our domestic waters and EEZ.