Sign on this page to send your quick submission to the Select Committee on the Crown Minerals Amendment Bill. Fossil fuels are not our future.

The Government has introduced legislation to overturn the offshore oil and gas ban. This is dangerous and irresponsible in the midst of a climate crisis, where we need to be taking all steps possible to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. 

It’s obvious why New Zealanders are so proud of our natural world. Few places across the world possess such stunning natural environments and unique taonga species.  

But the Prime Minister wants to fast-track away our natural environment for industry profits, opening the door to big business to override our environmental protections and shut out public voice.  

The Fast Track Bill will allow the government to destroy our unique and natural environment. This could see us lose our endangered and taonga species forever. That is why we are calling on the Government to ditch the Fast Track.  

Petition Begins 

Dear Prime Minister Luxon, 

We ask that you take seriously your duty of care to protect, regenerate and restore our environment, not take environmental protection backwards. This bill is anti-environment, anti-democratic, and fails to uphold Te Tiriti o Waitangi.  

We call on you to abandon your Government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill now. 

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Kia mau ki te reo Māori o Aotearoa. Ākona te ao. Pūpuritia!

Retain the Māori language of Aotearoa. Teach it to the world. Preserve this national treasure!

Te Reo Māori is a taonga unique to Aotearoa New Zealand. Seeing and hearing it across the motu and on the world stage unites our nation and reaffirms our commitment to honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi.  

Aotearoa New Zealand has a goal of having 1 million te reo speakers by 2040, and a crucial part of that mahi is teaching te reo Māori in schools. We have taken great steps towards this over the past few years, with a steady rise in New Zealanders speaking te reo Māori in everyday conversation. 

Currently, a primary objective for schools is to take “all reasonable steps to make instruction available in tikanga Māori and te reo Māori”. This recognises the unique place of te reo Māori in Aotearoa. It is a taonga which the Government has an obligation to protect, resource and promote, and that New Zealanders love to learn and use te reo. But the National-led Government is putting this at risk by de-prioritising the teaching of te reo in schools, making it a secondary objective for school boards. 

The Government wants to deprioritise te reo and replace it with a blanket directive to prioritise student achievement. This will make it more difficult for students and communities to expect that schools will offer it. It also reduces the responsibility of the Government to properly fund and support the teaching of te reo. 

Sign our petition on this page – join us in calling on the Minister of Education, Erica Stanford, to protect the priority of te reo Māori in schools and not make proposed changes.  

Kia kaha te reo māori ake ake ake! 

Petition Begins: 

We call on Erica Stanford, Minister of Education, to: 

• Give te reo Māori the priority it deserves in our kura  

• Not introduce the proposed changes to section 127 of the Education and Training Act 

• Keep the references to students’ rights as set out in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and the Human Rights Act 1993 

The changes proposed in the consultation to Section 127 of the Education and Training Act would deprioritise the teaching of te reo Māori and make it more difficult for students and communities to expect that schools will offer it. It also reduces the responsibility of the Government to properly fund and support the teaching of te reo. 

We have closed this petition and will be delivering it to Parliament the week of the 14th October

This Government wants to take away the ability of Councils to keep our streets safe for those who walk, bike and drive. 

Together we can tell the Government that local communities should be able to make their own decisions when it comes to making welcoming, safe streets in our neighbourhoods and around our schools.  

Sign the petition below – let's use our people power to tell Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Minister of Transport Simeon Brown that we stand against their decision to raise speed limits at the expense of community safety.

Petition Begins: 

We call on the Government to: 

• Keep the speed changes that were consulted on following the 2022 Rule changes. 

• Continue to allow Councils to set appropriate speed limits on local roads 

• Keep permanent speed limit changes outside schools 

• Stop the proposed blanket speed increases 

The proposed changes to the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits Rule 2024 ignore the evidence, strip democratic decision-making powers, add costs to local councils, and will mean more people die on our roads. 

We call for the current rules set by the previous Government, which allowed local roads with high pedestrian use to have a safe speed of 30km per hour, to be upheld. These rules ensure that roads around schools are safe for all. 

We all want our tamariki to be able to walk and bike to school and recreational activities, and for our whānau to come home safely from mahi. We can have cities and towns where it’s safe for all of us to get to school, work, and return home safely. 

Petition Begins:

The Coalition Government plans to superpower the climate crisis with new coal mining. We’re here - and we need you - to stand up and fight back.

For generations, people across Aotearoa New Zealand have mobilised to make it clear to politicians that the future of our environment and climate must be protected. We have stood up and rejected political choices that destroy conservation land and our native ecosystems. 

But now, National, Act and NZ First are trying to gaslight the country into opening up new coal, oil and gas exploration and extraction in the midst of a climate and biodiversity crisis.

This is not our future.

Destroying ecosystems and wiping out endangered species to make a quick buck for fossil fuel and mining executives is no way to protect the scientific fundamentals for life on earth as we know it, nor as we aspire for it to be.

On what planet?

Any politician who pretends that we can have a thriving economy on a burning planet is lying to you.

The International Energy Agency has told governments across the world that any attempts to mine and burn more coal, oil, and gas will send planet Earth over a dangerous threshold of warming into climate catastrophe.

Time and again, the Coalition Government shows its priorities in bypassing democratic process and undermining hard-fought climate and environmental gains.

They will only get away with it if we let them.

We can’t mine our way to a liveable planet.

Sign our petition to tell the Coalition Government to keep coal in the ground.

Join our movement for the clean, green future we all deserve and don’t leave politics to the politicians.

Our hearts go out to everyone in Aotearoa who has been affected by recent flooding in Tāmaki Makaurau, Northland, Waikato and Cyclone Gabrielle all around the North Island. 

This is climate change.

But right now, there are reports that Auckland’s Mayor, Wayne Brown, is considering cutting two-thirds of the funding sources for essential environmental programmes that are crucial to protecting everyone from severe weather.

Essential work is at risk, like improving stormwater management and restoring wetlands to reduce the impact of floods.

We’ve heard that Mayor Brown is also proposing cutting funding for buses - when we know that better public transport is a crucial part of reducing our climate pollution and delivering a more liveable, sustainable city.

And we've even heard that the Natural Environment Targeted Rate looks to be 'paused', in addition to a significant reduction of the climate change team's work programme.

I need your help to stop this happening. Together, we can show Mayor Brown that Aucklanders want more investment in a climate-safe future, not less.

We’ve got to act fast. The Mayor and council are finalising their proposed budget in the next few days. Just as communities have united to help with the immediate response and recovery, we need to show our political leaders that we’re united in our support for:

• Protecting and restoring wetlands, rivers, and streams to keep floodwaters away from homes and communities.
• Improving our green spaces, through planting trees and maintaining our parks, so that our urban environment is more resilient in the face of extreme weather.
• Making buses and trains more frequent and more reliable, so people aren’t forced into car dependency to get around their city.
• Making streets better for people, so tamariki can walk and bike to school safely.

As we continue to recover from the devastation, we need urgent action to build climate-friendly, resilient communities where everyone has what they need to thrive in Tāmaki Makaurau and nationwide. A better future is possible. 

As we honour the 183rd anniversary of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, we must consider both the future we want to build and the legacy of our past. We look towards an Aotearoa where the collective and individual wellbeing of all of our people thrive.

But for some Māori landowners, unjust legal systems from our colonial past continue today. For over 120 years many Māori landowners have had their rights stripped from them, being forced to lease their land, with no real say on what terms. This is because of “perpetual leases” – a type of lease abolished in the United Kingdom over 100 years ago.

Meanwhile, here in Aotearoa, Māori landowners forced into this arrangement are denied the right to live on their land, the right to care for and manage their land how they see fit, the right to nurture and grow a future for themselves and future generations. The rights to their land were handed over to others, with no suitable redress.

For over more than a century the government administrators who were meant to act in the best interest of Māori owners instead leased out the land for a pittance, with perpetual renewal rights. In doing so they privileged settlers and their descendants at the expense and serious disadvantage of the Māori landowners.

Under perpetual leases, lands are essentially removed from the control of the Māori owners. This denies and prevents their tino rangatiratanga. In fact if any Māori owner were to even walk on their lands under perpetual leases they would be regarded as trespassers.

This egregious colonial tool has got to end. The Government has the power to do this through legislation, and through assisting with negotiations.

Ending perpetual leases would enable Māori landowners to regain control of their lands and finally return to them the ability to develop and utilise their lands for the benefit of their whānau and hapū.

Help put an end to an injustice from the colonial era that continues to this day - abolish perpetual leases on Māori land.

Together we can make climate change history.

The Zero Carbon Bill will create a pathway for Aotearoa to transition to a net zero emission economy by 2050. We need your help to make sure our plan for the future is the best it can be and that it doesn't let anyone fall behind.

This Bill will affect us all. It will create new jobs, make it quicker and cleaner to get around in our cities, and it will lower our power bills. Most importantly it will protect our children's future. The Zero Carbon Act will set to achieve these three components:

1. Set where we are going by setting greenhouse gases targets in law
2. Establish an independent Climate Change commission
3. Ensure we're planning for the effects of climate change along the way

How that looks will be shaped by your input on how we can minimise harm and maximise benefits.

We want you to tell us how this Bill will affect your kids, your community, your business, your whānau and you. Pledge today to make a submission or submit an online submission.

Find out more at http://bit.ly/ourclimateyoursay

New Zealanders deserve a positive and solutions-focused discussion on access to medicinal cannabis, which should be legal, and affordable.

Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick has a medical cannabis Bill which Parliament will consider very soon! The Bill will legalise access to cannabis products for New Zealanders suffering from terminal illness or any debilitating condition.

We’ve seen a sea change in public attitudes about medicinal cannabis in recent years, thanks to the many many brave people who have spoken out about their experiences with chronic pain and terminal illness.

We need to take action. Chlöe's Bill legalises cannabis and cannabis products for people who are suffering from terminal illness or any debilitating condition, with the support of a registered medical practitioner.

It's safe and it's got wide support in the community. Sign on to help us make it law.

The Green Party wants to help parents when they need it the most, by ensuring they have time and money to focus on raising happy, healthy kids.  

We were going to put up a big long survey to find out what you think, but we know you don’t have time for that.

So just tell us what would make your life easier and let us take care of the rest.