The Green Party says expanding coverage for birth injuries is a step in the right direction, but much more still needs to be done to ensure ACC is a person-centred organisation that provides comprehensive support for all birth injuries and birth trauma.

In less than 12 hours, more than 10,000 people have signed on the Green Party’s open letter asking for ACC to cover all birth injuries and trauma.

The Green Party is launching an open letter to the Minister for ACC asking for all birth injuries and trauma to be covered, and the letter has strong support from the sector.

Let's transform ACC to become an Agency of Comprehensive Care When our friends and whānau have an accident or become unable to work, we want them to be looked after with the care and support they need. But right now, ACC, the agency set-up to catch people in unexpected tough times, is letting too many people fall through the cracks.  ACC was originally established over 50 years ago to support people with a no-fault basis, but this is far from...

Support shouldn’t be conditional and our plan isn’t either. Our plan is a new, simple safety net that works for all of us. It’s our plan to improve our communities long-term, so all people in New Zealand can live with dignity, put a roof over their heads and food on the table. Here’s our Poverty Action Plan headlines: A Guaranteed Minimum Income of $325 per week for students and people out of work, no matter what. A Universal Child Benefit...

Click here for our 2020 Election Priorities for ACC ACC needs to be a fair system that is there for all New Zealanders to get help when they need it. A publicly owned ACC should ensure world-class treatment, rehabilitation, and compensation for all New Zealanders, promoting quality of life and ethical investment. ACC should remain publicly owned Pay-as-you-go funding with a mix of general taxation and predictable levies should encourage the best possible outcomes for clients, not the best financial outcome...

This Member’s Bill sets out the Green Party’s plan to move Aotearoa New Zealand towards a safe climate future, by divesting all public funds from fossil fuel industries. Why are we doing this? We’re working hard to create a future that we can be proud to pass on to our kids and our grandkids, and we want New Zealanders to look back on today and know that we did everything we could to prevent the climate crisis. We know that...

As the largest publicly owned investor in New Zealand, the ACC board should divest from fossil fuels, demonstrating our leadership role on climate change, Green Party MP Chlöe Swarbrick said today.

Information uncovered by the Green Party showing the Government’s $31 billion ACC Investment Fund has been illegally investing New Zealanders’ money into cluster munitions companies is further evidence of National’s disregard for the laws and ethics of investment. The Green Party asked the ACC Fund in November 2015 whether it had any exposure to illegal investments in cluster munitions companies through pooled or collective investment vehicles. Seventy-six working days later*, the ACC Fund admitted that it had $1.4 million invested...