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	Progressive Green Party (New Zealand)
		The Progressive Green Party was an environmentalist political party in New Zealand.
		The Progressive Green Party was established on 9 August 1995 as a splinter group of the larger Green Party.
		Prominent members of the new party included Stephen Rainbow (a former member of the Wellington city council), Guy Salmon (head of the Maruia Society, forerunner to today's Ecologic organization), and Gary Taylor (a former Waitemata City city councillor).
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/p/pr/progressive_green_party__new_zealand_.html (239 words)

	Encyclopedia: New Zealand Labour Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is currently the dominant party in the country's ruling coalition, holding 51 of the 121 seats in the New Zealand Parliament.
		The New Zealand general election of 1919 was held December 17 to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 20h session of the New Zealand Parliament.
		The New Zealand general election of 1922 was held December 7 to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 21st session of the New Zealand Parliament.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-Zealand-Labour-Party (5360 words)

	Progressive Green Party (New Zealand) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Progressive Greens particularly opposed the Green Party's membership in the Alliance, a broad left-wing coalition.
		Prominent members of the new party included Stephen Rainbow (a former member of the Wellington city council), Guy Salmon (head of the Maruia Society, forerunner to today's Ecologic Foundation), and Gary Taylor (a former Waitemata City city councillor).
		Stephen Rainbow and Guy Salmon, once prominent in the Progressive Green Party, stood as list candidates for the National Party in the 1999 election and 2002 election, respectively, but were not elected.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Progressive_Green_Party_%28New_Zealand%29 (299 words)

	New Zealand (09/06)
		New Zealand was declared a dominion by a royal proclamation in 1907.
		New Zealand was a direct beneficiary of many of the reforms achieved under the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, with agriculture in general and the dairy sector in particular enjoying many new trade opportunities.
		New Zealand is an active member of the global coalition in the War against Terrorism, and deployed SAS troops to Afghanistan, and naval and air assets to the Persian Gulf.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35852.htm (4209 words)

	New Zealand election: 17 September 2005
		New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has formed her third successive minority government after the Labour Party won 41 per cent of the vote in the 17 September 2005 election.
		Given that New Zealanders voted in a citizen-initiated referendum in 1999 to reduce the number of members of parliament from 120 to 99, it is somewhat ironic that a quirk of the MMP system has produced a larger parliament this year.
		New Zealand has had ministers outside Cabinet for some years, but it is the first time that such a senior portfolio as foreign affairs has been held outside Cabinet.
	www.aph.gov.au /Library/pubs/rn/2005-06/06rn17.htm (3670 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/New Zealand general election, 2002
		The 2002 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the 47th New Zealand Parliament.
		Opposing Labour were the National Party (centre-right), New Zealand First (radical centrist and nationalist), ACT New Zealand (strongly supportive of the free market), and United Future (centrist).
		The other was United Future New Zealand party, a centrist party based on a merger of the United Party and the Future New Zealand party - primarily due to the performance of leader Peter Dunne, the party shot from having one seat to having eight seats.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/New_Zealand_general_election_2002 (1474 words)

	Green Horizon
		In 1990, 20 Green candidates stood for office with 8 victories; in 1994, there were 85 candidates with 16 victories; in 1998, 124 candidates with 27 victories; in 2000, 283 candidates with 47 victories; and in the election cycle of 2002, the Greens ran 545 candidates in 39 states.
		The Green Party is positioning itself to become the major voice on issues of ecology, community renewal, an anti-imperial, multilateral foreign policy, racial and social justice, and democracy -- developing a platform and campaigns for office that relate these themes to a broad range of issues facing the country and the planet.
		Green Party and candidate platforms regularly call for PR; but they have not as a whole made this a truly top priority, to the disappointment of the organization leading the fight for PR in the United States, the Center for Voting and Democracy.
	www.green-horizon.org /archives/000024.shtml (8452 words)

	ipedia.com: Progressivism Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Progressive is technically a loaded term, as it may imply that those opposed to "progressive" views are automatically regressive.
		Progressive is used in place of liberal to best describe philosophical ideals that are opposite and contrasted to those held by conservatives.
		The term "progressive" is also popular in Canada, since some liberals (in the American sense of the word) are not Liberals; that is, they do not support the centrist Liberal Party of Canada and should not be confused with the old Progressive Conservatives.
	www.ipedia.com /progressivism.html (531 words)

	Green Left - NEW ZEALAND: Clark government moves right
		Under New Zealand's proportional electoral system a party's parliamentary representation is proportional to its party votes — once they pass a 5% threshold or win a constituency seat.
		The new government's agenda has few new policy initiatives and there is little prospect of progressive advance beyond the little achieved by Labour in its previous term.
		However, the danger for the Greens is that their parliamentary leadership appears to have little strategy beyond getting into coalition government with Labour and the party has little control its parliamentary caucus.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2002/509/27474 (865 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark raises her arms in triumph as she arrives at Labor Party headquarters on election night in Auckland, yesterday.
		New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark clinched a historic second term at elections yesterday, buoyed by a strong economy that helped her South Pacific country to sail largely unscathed through the global slump.
		With 99 percent of the vote counted, Labor had 41 percent, or 52 seats; the National Party had 21 percent, or 27 seats; the right-wing New Zealand First party had 11 percent for 13 seats; United Future had seven percent for nine seats; and the Green Party had six percent for eight seats.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/front/archives/2002/07/28/158013 (766 words)

	Green Party of Texas State Platform
		The Green Party of Texas believes that it is unethical for candidates to solicit or accept campaign donations from sources outside the constituency of the office for which they are campaigning.
		The Green Party of Texas condemns the opportunistic use of fighting terrorism as an excuse for massive imperial expansion, a war on Iraq, and the construction of new generations of nuclear weapons.
		The Green Party of Texas believes that it is, therefore, imperative to our democratic existence that the workplace reflect the values of our society and operate in a fair and democratic manner, ensuring that the business practices of employers do not infringe on the basic human rights, constitutional rights, or labor rights of the people.
	www.txgreens.org /resources/gpinfo/gptx_state_platform.htm (8324 words)

	Spoiling the Party?
		Denunciations of Minnesota's Green Party have appeared all over the national alternative press this election season, as pundits who normally aim their rhetorical firepower at right-wingers and corporate criminals are up in arms that the state's growing band of Greens is fielding a candidate against progressive champion Paul Wellstone in an extremely tight Senate race.
		Minnesota Greens defend their decision to run against him as a necessary step toward their goal of becoming a viable alternative to the two major parties, which they view as not much different on most of the key issues.
		As much as I agree with the Green Party on most issues (and truth be told, I played a role in convening the first public meeting of what would become the Minnesota Greens, but soon returned to the DFL fold, largely because of Wellstone), I seriously question their strategy.
	www.utne.com /cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=utne&story.id=3022 (1260 words)

	Clark in pole position to rule NZ after vote count - World - smh.com.au
		New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark can begin the serious haggling to form a new government now the final election count has confirmed Labour as the biggest party.
		The minor parties' representation in parliament was left unchanged from the preliminary count.
		New Zealand First won seven seats, the Green Party six, Maori Party four, United Future three, ACT 2 and Progressive 1.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/clark-in-pole-position-to-rule-nz-after-vote-count/2005/10/01/1127804694858.html?from=moreStories (659 words)

	FairVote - Commentaries
		The result is that progressive parties like the Green Party and others get elected and have a seat at the table in most European legislatures.
		In Germany's government, where the Green Party is the junior coalition partner, a remarkable woman named Renata Kunaste is the Cabinet-level Minister of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs -- and a Green.
		The fact that Europe is at the progressive edge of where the world needs to go is greatly due to full representation and public financing of elections where all points of view are represented in the legislatures, and ideas are publicly debated, making it easier to reach a national consensus on important issues.
	www.fairvote.org /per/?page=556&articlemode=showspecific&showarticle=501 (893 words)

	An evaluation of New Zealand political party Websites.
		New Zealand's MMP system is based on the German model which allows for greater representation in Parliament of minor parties.
		The parliamentary parties had a mean score of 3.86 and for the non-parliamentary parties the mean score was 1.5.; While the t-test results showed that the difference between the means of the two groups is not statistically significant (p=.1), there are several points worth examining.
		Again, the situation in New Zealand conforms to the findings of Gibson and Ward (2002) in that party competition in cyberspace is relatively 'normal,' with the major parties being more visible than their minor and non-parliamentary counterparts.
	informationr.net /ir/9-4/paper196.html (10543 words)

	greens
		The New Zealand Alliance was formed by the Green Party, the New Labor Party (a left breakaway from the Labor Party), and the Maori Party, representing the indigenous Polynesian people who are 12 percent of the population).
		Asked in a plenary to state the politics and plans of the Patriot Party, Fulani made the case for a left-right coalition party by saying the task was to link progressives, gays, fls, and Latinos with the “radical white center,” referring to the Perot movement.
		The challenge for the Greens, given their disunity, is how to democratically decide on the national campaign structure, the inclusion of other parties supporting the campaign, the platform, the vice-presidential candidate, and perhaps a people's cabinet.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/Mar96Hawkins.htm (3122 words)

	NZ Greens: Campaigns: Drug Law Reform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Green Party believes that current policy in relation to drugs is failing to minimise harm and is instead creating a further set of problems...
		New Scientist marijuana report - evidence on the effects of cannabis, updated with the latest research.
		Green Cross - the NZ Medical Marijuana Users Group have an impressive site to assist ill New Zealanders gain knowledge regarding the medicinal use of cannabis.
	www.greens.org.nz /campaigns/cannabis (1908 words)

	Clark wins NZ poll - World - theage.com.au
		NEW ZEALAND'S final election result has cleared the way for caretaker Prime Minister Helen Clark to form a third-term government after her opponents lost a seat in the recount.
		The minor parties' representation was left unchanged from the preliminary count.
		Plans for the Greens to be part of the coalition are likely to be blocked by the other minor parties.
	www.theage.com.au /news/world/final-nz-poll-count-gives-win-to-clark/2005/10/01/1127804684143.html (470 words)

	Matt McCarten: National courts its new best friends with an eye to future partnerships - 10 Dec 2006 - Political News - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		New Zealand First consistently poll under 3 per cent and do not have a Parliamentary seat.
		Any strategist would have to assume New Zealand First will not make the 5 per cent threshold or win a seat at the next election which means they will be out.
		New Zealand First on this poll would be out of Parliament, making the determining factor the Maori Party.
	www.nzherald.co.nz /category/story.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10414650 (980 words)

	The Militant - September 2, 2002 -- Labour Party wins New Zealand vote
		AUCKLAND, New Zealand--The governing Labour Party was returned to office in general elections in New Zealand July 27 with a higher share of the vote and three more seats in the 120-member parliament.
		The vote for the National Party, the traditional party of the ruling class in New Zealand and the governing party for most of the post-World War II period, plummeted to 21 percent, its lowest since the party was founded in 1935.
		The most notable outcome of the election was the resurgence in support for the rightist New Zealand First Party, which increased its share of the vote from 4 percent to 10 percent, and more than doubled its parliamentary seats to 13.
	www.themilitant.com /2002/6633/663311.html (1095 words)

	Strong vote against bill to raise drinking age - 08 Nov 2006 - NZ Herald: New Zealand National news
		Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton, one of the strongest supporters of raising the age, said alcohol was the single most destructive drug in New Zealand.
		New Zealand First's Ron Mark represented the attitude of most other MPs who supported the bill when he said he knew it was not the sole answer to the problems of youth drinking, but something had to be done.
		The defeat of the bill, which was originally drafted by former Progressive Party MP Matt Robson, means the Government will go ahead with its review.
	www.nzherald.co.nz /section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10409844 (900 words)

	Unity in Diversity
		The Greens are primarily based in the environmental movement, the CNT in communities of color, the New Party in community organizations, particularly ACORN, and the Labor Party in the trade union movement.
		The New Party has focused on supporting candidates at local levels, a number of them Democrats, most of them running in non-partisan elections, with very few running on a third party line.
		The Greens, on the other hand, believe that the New Party’s "fusion" approach toward the Democratic Party is, in their words, "confusion" and have run in national and local elections as forget-the-Democrats Greens.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/glickjuly97.html (1239 words)

	S/R 11: The Draft Nader for President (un)Campaign
		It is about the Green Party, the Green Party platform, Green Party values, and Green ambitions in the public policy arena.
		The Green Party is "happening." The Greens are here to stay, with or without a presidential candidate this year.
		If the campaign also helps qualify another dozen state Green Parties, their ability to influence public policy through state and local elections and through political appointments will be greatly enhanced.
	www.greens.org /s-r/11/11-16a.html (622 words)

	Progressive Bloggers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Which means that the opposition parties would have to put vital resources into hammering out at least the broad terms of any coalition ahead of time, then signal their intentions publicly before Harper brought his own government down.And that presents some significant downside risk based on the uncertainty as to the Governor General's reaction.
		According to wikipedia, Ale Yarok (Green Leaf), a pro-cannabis legalization and environmental party is an ultra-liberal political party with a political platform based on the legalization of the Cannabis plant, marijuana and hashish, ecology, expansion of human rights and institutionalization of prostitution, gambling and same-sex marriage.
		However, the party is considered by the Israeli public as the “light drugs party” since this is the main issue that gets attention in the party’s platform.
	www.progressivebloggers.ca (3303 words)

	Green Left - PAKISTAN: Progressive newspaper fund appeal
		The Labour Party Pakistan has issued a financial appeal to help maintain the newspaper Mazdoor Jeddojuhd (Workers’ Struggle), which is Pakistan’s only weekly Urdu-language socialist paper.
		In addition to finding new subscribers for the paper, the appeal aims to raise 500,000 rupees (US$8400) to maintain the paper as a weekly.
		From: International News, Green Left Weekly issue #685 27 September 2006.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2006/685/8159 (254 words)

	New Zealand Progressive Political Party - Progressive saves centre-left majority post-Turia
		Mrs Tariana Turia's decision to resign from Labour today in order to establish a new Maori party which apparently supports privatising the justice system threatens neither the stability of the Labour-Progressive government nor the Centre-Left's Majority in Parliament, says Progressive MP Matt Robson.
		Mrs Turia's resignation from Labour reduces its presence to 51 in Parliament and the Opposition Green Party has nine seats.
		Progressive's presence guarantees an ongoing majority for the Centre-Left after Mrs Turia's defection.
	www.progressive.org.nz /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=902 (286 words)

	HEALTH & SCIENCE ARCHIVES OF THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW
		GREEN PARTY - Green Party leaders have called on Congress to reject health care reform plans that maintained corporate-based insurance and HMO coverage, and urged passage of a single-player national health insurance program.
		News of the cutoff followed a ruling last week by the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services barring companies from giving free drugs to Part D enrollees, hoping to prevent fraud.
		PROGRESS REPORT - In a study conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 41 percent of uninsured adults said they were unable to see a doctor when they needed to during the previous year and 56 percent did not have a personal doctor or other health care provider.
	www.prorev.com /healthplan.htm (15733 words)

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