A drop in household income from rising bank interest rates further demonstrates the need for an excess profits tax, the Green Party says.

The Government’s announcement today that it will boost bus driver wages once again adopts a long held Green Party commitment on public transport. 

The Green Party has today put forward proposals to ensure large corporations profiteering from high inflation are taxed fairly and the money used to support people to make ends meet.

The Greens welcome the Government’s announcement today to remove the special appeals process from Local Alcohol Policies, effectively adopting the first half of Chlöe Swarbrick’s Alcohol Harm Minimisation Bill.

Fossil fuel corporations claiming gas as a suitable “transition” fuel is jeopardising New Zealand’s chances of achieving its net zero climate change targets, a new report from the International Energy Agency underscores.

The Green Party is today celebrating a landmark decision by the Government to support a moratorium on seabed mining in international waters.

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.