We welcome Adrian Orr signalling that he will provide advice to the Finance Minister on fiscal measures, include tax changes, to cool the housing market, Green Party Finance spokesperson Julie Anne Genter said today. 

It is a positive step that the Government is looking at options to take the heat out of the housing market, and has written to the Reserve Bank to that effect, but they must be open to using all the tools available to them, Green Party Co-leader and spokesperson on Housing Marama Davidson said today.

The Government must use levers to prevent further over-heating of the housing market, which will result from the Reserve Bank pumping another $28 billion into the economy in the form of cheap loans to banks.

National’s ‘alternative budget’ that includes huge cuts to the government’s operating allowance would risk gutting critical public services, and put health, education and nature at dire risk.

This policy outlines the role of the Government in transforming the economy. In Government, the Green Party will tackle inequality through a fairer tax system, providing everyone with public services and infrastructure to meet their material, social, and cultural needs. We will limit our use of resources to live within planetary boundaries and urgently address the climate crisis. We will support Māori understandings and expectations of economic justice. We will retain and expand public investment in direct service provision and...

We should work toward a global trade regime which respects ecological limits and local cultures, and which contributes to sustainable development. This should encourage good global citizenship and corporate responsibility, including through enforceable international law to protect human rights and the environment. Economic decision-making should be democratic and transparent. Vision Trade and foreign investment prioritises social, economic, cultural and environmental justice in the pursuit of sustainability.  Values and Principles Trade and foreign investment agreements and policies must be underpinned by...

The Greens in Government have today won a significant investment to help move the public sector estate onto clean, renewable energy, Green Party Co-leader, James Shaw, said today.

E te Māngai o te Whare, tēnā koe. Ki a koutou ōku hoa Pāremata, huri noa i te Whare, ngā mihi o te tau hou ki a koutou katoa. 1.         The Wellbeing Budget is based on Green Economics Mr Speaker, for years – many years – the Green Party and our predecessor, the Values Party, have advocated an approach to economics that delivers human prosperity within ecological limits. A growing Gross Domestic Product does not, by itself, deliver a fair...

“The Green Party is proud to welcome New Zealand’s first Wellbeing Budget to deliver change for New Zealanders,” Green Party Co-leader James Shaw said today. “Budget 2019 is a massive boost for the delivery of the Green Party’s Confidence and Supply Agreement. “The major new investments in mental health, strong action on climate change, sustainable land use, and better rail options are a direct result of the Green Party’s campaigning, and we are now in a position to deliver them....

“The Wellbeing Budget is a first step in changing the way we look at the economy and our place in it”, said Green Party Co-leader Marama Davidson. “The wellbeing of our people and environment should be at the centre of everything the Government does. I am pleased to see the Government is starting to take this approach for the first time. The economy exists to serve our people and the environment, not the other way around. “Where we spend money...