The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand,commonly known as the Greens,is a green and left-wing political party in New Zealand. Like many green parties around the world,it has four organisational pillars. The party's ideology combines environmentalism with left-wing and social-democratic economic policies,including well-funded and locally controlled public services within the confines of a steady-state economy. Internationally,it is affiliated with the Global Greens.
Nándor Steven Tánczos is a New Zealand social ecologist,researcher,educator,activist and political commentator. He is currently a councillor in the Whakatāne District. He is also co-director of He Puna Manawa social and political change agency.
Metiria Leanne Agnes Stanton Turei is a New Zealand academic and a former New Zealand politician. She was a Member of Parliament from 2002 to 2017 and the female co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2009 to 2017. Turei resigned from the co-leader position on 9 August 2017 amid a political controversy arising from her admission to lying to the Ministry of Social Development to receive higher payments when she was on the Domestic Purposes Benefit and later,to being enrolled to vote in an electorate where she was not eligible when she was 23.
Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (ALCP),also known as the Cannabis Party,is a political party in New Zealand. It is dedicated to removing or reducing restrictions on the use of cannabis and similar substances.
Ikaroa-Rāwhiti is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate. It was formed for the 1999 election and held by Parekura Horomia of the Labour Party until his death in 2013. A by-election to replace him was held on 29 June 2013 and was won by Labour's Meka Whaitiri,who remains the incumbent after the 2014 election.
The use of cannabis in New Zealand is regulated by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975,which makes unauthorised possession of any amount of cannabis a crime. Cannabis is the fourth-most widely used recreational drug in New Zealand,after caffeine,alcohol and tobacco,and the most widely used illicit drug. In 2001 a household survey revealed that 13.4% of New Zealanders aged 15–64 used cannabis. This ranked as the ninth-highest cannabis consumption level in the world.
The 2009 Mount Albert by-election was held in the New Zealand electorate of Mount Albert on 13 June 2009. There were fifteen candidates in the election. David Shearer of the Labour Party won the election with 63% of the vote. The seat was vacated by former Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark,who resigned from the New Zealand Parliament on 17 April 2009 following her appointment to head the United Nations Development Programme. Main issues surrounding the campaign included the building of the Waterview Connection and the Auckland Region becoming a supercity.
David James Clendon is a New Zealand politician and former member of the Green Party. Following the resignation of Sue Bradford,Clendon became a member of the House of Representatives on 2 November 2009.
Dakta Green,formerly Kenneth Morgan is a former New Zealand cannabis law reform activist and political candidate. He changed his name by public poll in 2008. He is the Activism co-ordinator for NORML New Zealand,the driver of Mary Jane the Cannabus,and founder of The Daktory. He was a candidate for the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party in the 2009 Mount Albert by-election.
Gareth Thomas Llewelyn Hughes is a New Zealand politician and member of the Green Party. He was a member of the New Zealand Parliament for eleven years,from 2010 to 2020. He first took a seat part way through the 49th Parliament as the next person on the Green party list following the retirement of Jeanette Fitzsimons in February 2010. He did not stand for re-election in the 2020 general election.
Steffan John Browning is a New Zealand politician of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. He was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in 2011 and retired in 2017.
Julie Anne Genter is an American-born New Zealand politician who is a member of the House of Representatives representing the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. She served as the Minister for Women,Associate Minister for Health and Associate Minister for Transport during the first term of the Sixth Labour Government. She holds dual citizenship of New Zealand and the United States.
James Peter Edward Shaw is a New Zealand politician and a leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Voters elected Shaw to the New Zealand parliament at the 2014 general election as a list representative of the Green Party. The party selected Shaw as its male co-leader in May 2015. Following Metiria Turei's resignation in August 2017,Shaw became the party's sole leader for the duration of the 2017 general election.
Marama Mere-Ana Davidson is a New Zealand politician who entered the New Zealand Parliament in 2015 as a representative of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand,of which she is the female co-leader.
Whakamana,or The New Zealand Institute for Cannabis Education,Research and Development is New Zealand's first museum dedicated to the history of cannabis use and culture. It was first opened in October 2013 in Dunedin as part of a project spearheaded by Abe Gray,former deputy leader of the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (ALCP),and Julian Crawford,former ALCP regional spokesperson.
The 2020 New Zealand general election was held on Saturday 17 October 2020 to determine the composition of the 53rd parliament. Voters elected 120 members to the House of Representatives,72 from single-member electorates and 48 from closed party lists. Two referendums,one on the personal use of cannabis and one on euthanasia,were also held on the same day. Official results of the election and referendums were released on 6 November.
Seventy-one members of the New Zealand House of Representatives were elected from electorates in the general election on 23 September 2017.
The 2020 New Zealand cannabis referendum was a non-binding referendum held on 17 October 2020 in conjunction with the 2020 general election and a euthanasia referendum,on the question of whether to legalise the sale,use,possession and production of recreational cannabis. It was rejected by New Zealand voters. The form of the referendum was a vote for or against the proposed "Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill". Official results were released by the Electoral Commission on 6 November 2020 with 50.7% of voters opposing the legalisation and 48.4% in support.
Abraham Gabriel Gray is an American-born New Zealand cannabis activist,politician and founder of the Whakamana Cannabis Museum,New Zealand's first and only cannabis museum. Gray was a University of Otago lecturer and tutor for over a decade before founding the museum.
Luke Leon Taitoa Wijohn is a New Zealand environmental activist and politician.
