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Break up supermarket duopoly and guarantee liveable incomes
The Green Party is calling on the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, David Clark to break up the supermarket duopoly.
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Fair Pay Agreements will give workers more hope for a fairer system
The Green Party welcomes the introduction of the Fair Pay Agreements Bill.
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Welfare system keeping people in poverty
The Green Party calls on the Government to stop tinkering and immediately increase benefits to liveable levels, following the release of data by Fairer Futures which shows some of the country’s worst-off families need $300 a week more in support to make ends meet.
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Manus and Nauru Refugee resettlement welcome, but more to do
The Green Party welcomes the long overdue deal to resettle 150 refugees held unlawfully in Australia’s prison islands here in Aotearoa - but says the resettlement should be in addition to the existing refugee quota.
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Auckland Council pressures Parliament to act on community alcohol harm reduction
Auckland Council has unanimously passed a motion calling on MPs to support Auckland Central MP Chlöe Swarbrick’s Members’ bill to minimise alcohol harm - an unprecedented step that puts pressure on Parliament to act.
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Urgent action needed to protect communities
The Green Party does not support changes to COVID protection measures and calls on the Government to act urgently to keep our most at-risk communities safe.
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Stronger COVID protections needed in schools
The Green Party is calling on the Government to introduce stronger measures in schools and early education centres to ensure children and their whānau are not put at greater risk from a change to COVID-19 protections.
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Liveable incomes needed to lift COVID burden
The Green Party is calling on the Government to boost support directly to people so they are not put at greater risk by a change in COVID-19 protections, despite the pandemic continuing to take a toll on our communities and public health system.
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Boost support long-term for Māori and Pasifika isolation, vaccinations
The Green Party is calling on the Government to focus long-term COVID-19 support on whānau, hapū and community service providers helping Māori and Pasifika.
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Greens urge Government to keep public health protections
The Government must not remove COVID-19 protection measures until it is very clear that the Omicron outbreak has passed, the Green Party says.