Green Party spokesperson for Pacific Peoples Teanau Tuiono MP, supports the demand from Pasifika communities fighting for climate action as their homelands are more at risk in the Pacific region.

It has been 50 years since the Polynesian Panthers were formed, and now a call for a formal government apology for the Dawn Raids has come. 

The Green Party supports calls from around the Pacific to stop harmful fishing practices such as  bottom trawling, stop using our seas to dispose of waste, and ban deep sea mining in their territories.

The Green Party will push for better wages and fair pay agreements to help tackle poverty within our Pasifika Communities.

The Green Party welcome the Government announcement to support Pasifika peoples to become Community Housing Providers.

The Green Party is calling on the Government to ensure all people working in horticulture are paid liveable wages and have access to quality accommodation.

The Green Party is calling for greater prioritisation of Māori and Pāsefika healthcare to fix systemic inequities in the health system.

Aotearoa is a Pacific country. Our Government has a responsibility to support Pāsefika communities in Aotearoa, and to be a good neighbour to other nations in our region. Too many people in our Pāsefika communities are held back by Aotearoa’s economic, education, welfare, and health systems. The Green Party acknowledges the hardships, inequities, and injustices faced by our Pāsefika communities, and knows that supporting all our young people to thrive means investing in them. The Green Party will work alongside...

  Kia ora kotou, nihao, namaste, annyong, kamusta, talofalava, bula, salam alaikum And warm Pacific greetings – on this cold Dunedin morning – to you all. *** It’s a privilege to be representing the Green Party at your AGM. We in the Greens are deeply concerned that the debate about immigration policy in New Zealand has, over the course of time, come to be dominated by populist politicians preaching a xenophobic message in order to gain political advantage. This ugly strain...