🗳️ That the following words be inserted in the amendment before the words “And expects”: “And commits to a Green New Deal to simultaneously combat the economic crisis and the climate crisis in a way which is fair to all New Zealanders, to give our environment the greater protection it desperately needs and on which our economy entirely depends, and to conduct politics in a way which is honest, open and democratic, and supports the continued representation in this House of the true diversity of voices in Aotearoa New Zealand.”

Hon Dr NICK SMITH (Minister for the Environment): That speech was from a member whose legacy to New Zealand is a decade of deficits. That member said today that we should be spending more, but only 6 months ago he was accusing John Key of being reckless for wanting a... Read more →