Green Party Maori Issues Spokesperson Metiria Turei has reminded Maori leaders that job and housing security for Maori are on a razor-edge and can be either undermined or further advanced, depending on National-Act economic policy.
Rumours that Fairfax may be interested in snapping up rival media company APN have raised concerns about the independence of New Zealand’s news industry should such a deal go ahead, the Green Party says.
The Green Party is welcoming National’s belated recognition that the banks have responsibilities in return for taxpayers underwriting the deposit guarantee scheme and in return for the Reserve Bank extending them lines of credit.
The Green Party is renewing calls for a green public investment plan, in light of the highest inflation figures in 18 years - driven by high oil prices.
A green investment plan would invest in projects to make New Zealand less dependent on oil, reduce our greenhouse emissions, use our resources more efficiently and keep people in work and business in business.
Support and educate businesses to adopt sustainability as a core value. Create a stable macroeconomic environment and ensure that fiscal policy does not undermine good business practice. Protect business from outright competition with products and services from countries with poor human and worker rights records and with poor environmental practices.
Maori Party Co-Leader Tariana Turia’s suggestion yesterday that the dole should be scrapped is dangerous in the extreme, and especially for Maori who tend to be disproportionately unemployed, the Green Party says.
The aim is to engage Nga kaimahi Maori as active and productive participants in the workforce therefore contributing to Rangatiratanga, increasing knowledge around motivating factors and barriers that impact on Maori workforce development, increasing knowledge around Maori models of organising, building strategic partnerships and collaboration with Iwi, employers, and industry to increase Maori le
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