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The real cost of Willis’ failed economic strategy: empty chairs at Christmas
The Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update (HYEFU) shows Nicola Willis’ “year of growth” has not only totally failed to deliver but has come at a steep cost to regular New Zealanders.
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Increasing homelessness requires increased political commitment to end homelessness
The Green Party is calling on the Government to commit to solutions to end homelessness, following the National Homelessness Data Project’s latest report which shows that, in every area, rates of homelessness are either unchanged or getting worse.
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Christmas stolen for NZ born footballer facing deportation
The Green Party is calling on the Associate Minister of Immigration to act immediately to prevent a New Zealand-born child from being potentially forced to leave the country just days before Christmas.
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Pig cruelty won’t stand under Green Government
The Government has passed its Bill to keep mother pigs in cruel cages for at least another 10 years.
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Govt’s Christmas gift to workers: An effective pay cut
The Government’s announcement today of a measly two per cent increase to minimum wage is another blow for workers.
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Government sacrifices nature to the bulldozer
Christopher Luxon’s Government continues to show its true colours on environmental protection, today rejecting most of the advice of expert panels established to consider the right level of protection for stewardship land on the West Coast, and reducing the protection of tens of thousands of hectares recommended for National Park status.
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Inflated student loan debt stopping New Zealanders from coming home
After collating stories from over 400 New Zealanders living and working overseas, the Green Party is calling for an urgent cross-party inquiry into the student loan repayment scheme for overseas-based New Zealanders.
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Overwhelming opposition to fast-track legislation Luxon's Government will ignore, again
In a case of déjà vu nightmare, the Green Party stands with 95 per cent of submitters to the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Bill, opposing this proposed legislation in the strongest terms.
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Government’s ‘climate commitment’ mask finally comes off
In a watershed moment for climate accountability, newly released documents clearly show Luxon’s Government is comfortable knowingly breaching the Paris Agreement, signed up to by John Key 10 years ago.
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Parents echo call for free, public ECE
A new report, released this morning, shows the vast majority of parents want free early childhood education (ECE), not more tinkering around the edges of a broken system.