Tag: Welfare
Question for Oral Answer – Overseas Aid – Targets
When will the level of Government overseas aid reach the level of 0.5 percent of gross national income achieved by the 1972-75 Labour Government in 1975?
Greens welcome Government’s tsunami package
Green MP Keith Locke has welcomed the Government's tsunami package.
Cabinet must be generous with tsunami aid
The Greens are urging the Cabinet to be generous when it decides tomorrow on what extra aid to give to tsunami victims.
Employment Relations Law Reform Bill – In Committee
The Green Party, as everyone knows - and it has been promoted by the National Party - is supporting this bill, which does lead to greater fairness for workers and employers in industrial relations.
Brutal mistreatment of prisoners cannot be ignored
Green MP Keith Locke says threats by the Justice Minister to appeal compensation awarded to five prisoners for severe mistreatment send the message that prisoners have no human rights and 'deserve' whatever brutality they encounter in jail.
Greens back public call for overseas aid
The Green Party says the Government should take note of the public's overwhelming support for aid to struggling nations and it should raise New Zealand's miserly current contribution.
Politicians without a heart attack people without a home
Green MP, Keith Locke says the continued barrage of attacks on the number of refugees taken in by New Zealand is a shameful indictment on the xenophobia and heartlessness of some politicians.
Denial of Samoans’ rights no way to treat special friends
The Green Party is not happy with the Government Administration Committee's refusal to reinstate the right of many Samoans' to New Zealand citizenship.