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

The Green Party has released its initial list of candidates for the 2023 election, which will now inform the membership voting process.

A visionless National Party has stolen Government policy and rebranded it as their own.

“This is it; 2023 will be the last opportunity New Zealand has to get a government that will confront the climate emergency with the urgency it demands,” says the Green Party’s co-leader and climate change spokesperson, James Shaw.

You will never truly understand, from the pictures you’ve seen in the newspapers or on the six o-clock news, the sheer scale of the devastation wrought by Cyclone Gabrielle.

Political parties that want to negotiate with the Green Party after the election must come to the table with much faster, bolder climate action, co-leaders James Shaw and Marama Davidson emphasised today.

Political parties that want to negotiate with the Green Party must come to the table with much faster, bolder climate action, co-leaders James Shaw and Marama Davidson emphasised in their State of the Planet speech today.

“Cabinet needs to do better - and today has shown exactly why we need Green Ministers in cabinet, so we can prioritise action to cut climate pollution and support people to make ends meet,” says Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson.

The Green Party backs the demands of the School Strike for Climate.

It’s good to see the Government refocus on helping with the day to day pressures facing New Zealanders, but we need bolder solutions.