petition Archive

  • Gareth Hughes

    Why won’t National listen to Auckland on CBD rail link? - by Gareth Hughes



    I was astonished that a few weeks back Auckland MPs voted against inviting the Auckland Council to submit on the CBD rail link debate. I can only talk about it now because the report containing my minority report was tabled in Parliament today. The Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee was discussing my petition to [...] read more
    September 8, 2011 4:52 pm - 11 Comments
  • Gareth Hughes

    Rail petition makes tracks to Beehive - by Gareth Hughes



    As a Gissy-boy and rail-fan I passionately believe that we can’t afford to lose this community asset and we need to stand up to protect it. Kiwirail has announced the lines possible closure in 2012 if further customers can’t be found. The Government has given Kiwirail ten years to ‘turn itself around,’ but Kiwirail is [...] read more
    May 5, 2011 5:09 pm - 5 Comments
  • frog

    Join the Big Push against ECE cuts - by frog



    NZEI are cranking up the campaign against the Government’s shortsighted Early Childhood Education cuts that will force many early childhood education centres to either reduce services or raise fees.   They have a petition I’m hoping you will download (PDF) and circulate (deadline 20 May). And if you live in Auckland, they are planning a march [...] read more
    February 14, 2011 9:53 am - 2 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    Launching the Illegal Logging Petition! - by Catherine Delahunty



    This week I launched the Green petition to ban the import and trade of illegal logging outside the “ForestWood” Conference at Te Papa. The conference was organised by the Forest owners Association and Woodco. The Forest owners have been strong supporters of the call for a ban on the import and trade of illegal and [...] read more
    October 15, 2010 10:38 am - 5 Comments
  • frog

    Parliament mined, fossils detected - by frog



    I glanced out my window this afternoon and was alarmed to see Parliament lawn swarming with menacing figures dressed in white suits and armed with metal detectors, seemingly prospecting one of New Zealand’s finest heritage sites for minerals. read more
    September 16, 2009 4:13 pm - 18 Comments
  • frog

    Spotless and PSIS not giving employers a good name - by frog



    Occasionally employers get up to some very strange things. First we have Spotless Cleaning company which last year had to be compelled to accept a nationwide deal that everyone else in the health sector had signed up to, to raise the living wages of cleaners and cooks in our public hospitals. Nine months after that [...] read more
    April 3, 2008 10:15 pm - 1 Comment