Oxfam Archive

  • Kennedy Graham

    NZCID budget cut shows McCully’s poverty of spirit - by Kennedy Graham



    Last year Foreign Minister Murray McCully decided to roll stand-alone governmental Aid agency NZAID back into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. This move met with vigorous opposition from Labour and the Greens. read more
    June 11, 2010 4:53 pm - 3 Comments
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    New York based supporter sends cool video - by frog



    A keen supporter of the Green Party currently working with Avaaz.org in New York put together a short youtube video to energize people for the coming climate change events. read more
    December 11, 2009 4:16 pm - 1 Comment
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    Tokelau navigates towards cleaner, greener future - by frog



    Core Green issues of transport, energy and Pacific climate change were raised in a meeting with our MPs Keith Locke and Kennedy Graham.  A delegation from Tokelau – that included the three high chiefs of Tokelau – Faipule Foua Toloa (Ulu o Tokelau/leader of Tokelau) , Faipule Kuresa Nasau, Faipule Pio Tetimuatoga Tuia Iosefo and officials – [...] read more
    September 20, 2009 8:00 am - 8 Comments
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    National Party to dump the billion dollar Green Home Fund - by frog



    Last night in Auckland, National Party Climate Change Spokesman Dr. Nick Smith MP announced under pressure that National has no plans to keep the billion dollar Green Home Fund that the Greens negotiated with Labour. Speaking at the Oxfam Climate Change Debate, Smith was pressured by Minister Parker as to whether National would keep the [...] read more
    October 14, 2008 6:11 am - 62 Comments
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    Green Party Annual Conference - by frog



    I’m off to Auckland tomorrow for the Green Party’s annual meeting at Waipapa Marae.  So you probably won’t hear much from me tomorrow.  But hopefully I’ll find a computer from which I can report on the three major Conference speeches over the weekend (Nandor on Friday night, Jeanette on Saturday morning and Russel on Sunday [...] read more
    May 29, 2008 2:18 pm - 14 Comments
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    Helping Burma - by frog



    The news this morning is reporting that deaths in Burma could be as high as 100,000 people.  Figures like that are incomprehensible. Some how it is easier to internalise the tragedy with images like this one of a Burmese child cleaning up twigs after Cyclone Nargis: From here in New Zealand there is not much [...] read more
    May 8, 2008 9:08 am - 18 Comments