In this podcast, Green Party ICT Spokesperson Gareth Hughes talks about the new law – what it means, why non-nerds should be worried about it too, and what can be done from here.

If you’re reading this on Friday 27 May, you’ve got the rest of today to make a submission – click here for a form submission to adapt.

If you missed Gareth’s virtual public meeting on this issue, you can download the full audio here, or follow NZGreens on twitter for a link to the video when it’s posted.

Showing the power of social media, this week’s track is Shuffling Joe, by Dub Asylum. Crowd-sourced from twitter! Thanks Dub Asylum. It’s file sharing in action!

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Russel goes over a 7m waterfall on the Kaituna

Russel is about to wrap his second annual Dirty Rivers Rafting Tour. Russel has been visiting rivers that are either dangerously polluted, or threatened due to large dam and irrigation projects, and rafting or kayaking them with local environmentalists, whitewater enthusiasts, iwi, farmers, and media.

The purpose of the tour is to highlight the threats to our precious rivers, but also to celebrate some of the most beautiful rivers in the country. It’s also to put pressure on Environment Minister Nick Smith to adopt clean water rules now before it’s too late.

In this podcast, on the eve of his final trip, Russel talks about the highs and lows of the tour, whether he got sick from the dirty water or scared going over a 7m waterfall, and why we need clean water rules, now.

This week’s track is Regenerate, by the Midnights, supplied courtesy of Loop.

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Metiria Turei, Catherine Delahunty, Gareth Hughes and David Clendon talk about their musical tastes and predilections.

The featured music in this podcast is Just The Way You Are, covered by Twinset and supplied courtesy of the lovely folks at Loop.

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This one’s from a few weeks back, but it’s been super-popular, so click through to listen or download the transcript of Gareth Hughes talking about his personal sprituality.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Parliament is a strange place, and often the only images we get are of MPs shouting at each other across the chamber during Question Time. But when the gloves are off, how do MPs from different parties get on? In this podcast three Green MPs – Catherine Delahunty, Kevin Hague, and Gareth Hughes – talk about their cross-party relationships.

Can friendship flourish across the political battlefield? In an adversarial Parliament, is there room to find common ground?

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For the first time, we’re delighted to be able to provide a transcript of this podcast – kindly transcribed for us by an award-winning New Zealand novelist, woohoo! Go here and download the transcript file. This is something we hope to provide more in future.

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Green Party MP and serial volunteer Catherine Delahunty recounts one of the most entertaining and impressive experiences of a coordinated volunteer programme.  It took a village of volunteers to support a community court case against a mine in the Coromandel, sustained over several months.

It’s worth thinking about the oft-overlooked importance of unpaid work, which is excluded from calculations of wealth and GDP, to supporting our economy. What do you think about the many non-monetary reasons humans have for chipping in and doing things for each other?

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On Monday, Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei launched Mind the Gap, the Green Party’s eight-point Budget strategy to combat growing inequality in New Zealand.

Mind the Gap is the third installment of the Green New Deal, which is what a Green Government would be doing right now to address the biggest environmental, economic, and social problems facing New Zealand.

It’s Budget Day, and Mind the Gap is the Green Party’s alternative vision for investment in our future that addresses the biggest social and economic problems facing New Zealand.

In this podcast, Metiria talks us through Mind the Gap – what’s behind it, what’s in it, and why it’s needed.

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West Coaster and Green MP Kevin Hague is dead set against putting a dam on the Mokihinui River especially when there’s a better plan just down the road.

He’s also adamant that behind every illogical decision, there’s an illogical system.

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Amidst the furore an interesting set of circumstances has come to light around Agriculture Minister David Carter. Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman revealed in Parliament that Carter may have had a conflict of interest in relation to the ECAN Bill, which he did not declare to Cabinet.

In this podcast, Russel teases out the exact circumstances of this complicated affair.

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Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley has been collaborating with Health Minister Tony Ryall and Associate Health Minister Jonathan Coleman on the proposal. This work is part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the Greens and National in April 2009.

In this podcast, Sue speaks about the proposal – why it’s needed, what it sets out to achieve, and what the process is from here.

Co-Leader Russel Norman also reflects on the MOU between the Greens and National in light of the announcement.

You can read the consultation document here.

This week’s music is from Auckland-based “chamber pop” outfit Canadia, off their most recent EP Beg Steal and Burrow.

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When Greens Turn Red (MP3 and OGG)

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Robert Costanza, the current chair of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, met with Jeanette prior to speaking to a packed lecture hall at Victoria University. The Green party sponsored visit was a huge success, and a video link will be updated to this post as soon as the editing is done.

Jeanette asks Costanza what we need to do to solve the twin crises of economic and environmental degradation, and the role of the Green New Deal in sorting out both messes simultaneously.

In keeping with the Green Party’s kaupapa, the podcast is here in open format:

Fitzsimons interviews Costanza(.ogg Vorbis format, 7.7 Mb)

For those of you locked into a proprietary format:

Fitzsimons interviews Costanza (.mp3 format, 7.6 Mb)

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