Community and Voluntary Sector

Green Party MP Sue Kedgley is calling on Telecom, Vodafone and NZ Communications to publicly release their lists of proposed sites for new cell phone towers, to inform local residents before they are constructed.

Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says news that the Mount Victoria community centre Crossways has been sold to a private buyer is devastating and she is incredulous the Wellington City Council allowed this valuable and well used community asset to be sold.

“This is terrible news for the community, and for volunteers who have spent thousands of hours trying to save Crossways.

The Green Party believes the New Zealand economy and society would benefit hugely if the community sector was properly resourced and enabled to meet its full potential.<

A report in the ‘New Zealand Herald’ this morning that Australian NGO corporate Mission Australia is keen to bring its work for dole programmes into New Zealand should ring major alarm bells about what may await beneficiaries, and the community and voluntary sector, in the event of a National victory.