An historic wooden trestle viaduct that once serviced the sawmilling industry has been restored and is once again open to visitors to the magnificent Waitutu forest.
Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage today celebrated the reopening of southern Fiordland’s Percy Burn viaduct, thought to be the highest surviving wooden bridge in the world, following significant restoration work.
The Green Party has negotiated to achieve substantial improvements to Medicinal Cannabis legislation which provide certainty and clarity to patients and their whānau.
“Today, the Government's Bill will return to the House for its Second Reading. Through negotiation with governing parties we've managed to guarantee certainty for patients and their whānau that a local licencing, production, prescription and consumption regime will be established by the end of next year”, Green Party Sensible Drug Law Reform spokesperson Chlöe Swarbrick said today.
A Green Party member’s bill that allows New Zealanders to know where their food comes was passed almost unanimously by Parliament today, Green Party MP Gareth Hughes has announced.
“We’ve established that people have a right to know where their food comes from,” Green MP Gareth Hughes said.
“Kiwi consumers will now have greater information so they can exercise their consumer power and choice.
“It’s a good day for New Zealanders and for New Zealand producers.
The Green Party is calling on the Justice Minister to ensure improved prisoner rehabilitation and integration by allowing people in prison to cast their vote during elections.
“Today is 125 years since New Zealand women first went to the polls, yet to this day there are New Zealanders still denied from casting their vote”, Green spokesperson on Justice Golriz Ghahraman said today.
“This is because in 2010 the National Party banned all people in prison from casting their vote.
The Green Party welcome an external review into bullying and harassment of staff and contractors at Parliament.
“Everyone should feel safe when they come to work”, Green Party Workplace Relations and Safety spokesperson Jan Logie said today.
“The Green Party have previously said that, like other workplaces in New Zealand, the Parliament has a problem with workplace culture and bullying.
“It is clear we need to assess culture and practice in this place and find out what we need to do to make Parliament a safe and healthy workplace.
Six month phase-out period
Applies to all plastic shopping bags under 70 microns
All retailers to comply
Associate Minister for the Environment, Eugenie Sage today confirmed the mandatory phase out of single-use plastic shopping bags in New Zealand, to come into effect around the middle of next year.
This announcement follows a five week public consultation process, where 92 per cent of submitters supported the proposed mandatory phase out.
Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage and Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash today announced an important step forward on work to restore the health of the Hauraki Gulf.
“We have announced today that a Ministerial Advisory Committee will be established to play a key role in implementing the Sea Change Plan, which includes proposals for improving the health of the Hauraki Gulf,” said Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage.
New Zealand and Chile will help protect vulnerable seabirds, including the critically endangered Antipodean albatross.
A cooperative arrangement was signed today by Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters, on behalf of Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage and Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash, and the Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Ampuero, who is visiting New Zealand alongside President Sebastián Piñera.
New Zealand is joining its voice and influence with others in the international community to better protect biodiversity by joining the Sharm El-Sheikh Declaration adopted in Egypt on 15 November.
Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage joined other political leaders at the event to discuss global biodiversity at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) High Level Segment in Sharm El-Sheikh.
“This declaration comes at a pivotal point for nature,” Eugenie Sage said.
“Working together to manage ocean acidification”
Reynolds Room, Royal Academy, London
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