The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand,commonly known as Green,the Greens or Te Pāti Kākāriki,is a green and left-wing political party in New Zealand. Like many green parties around the world,it has four 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.
Jeanette Mary Fitzsimons was a New Zealand politician and environmentalist. She was the co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 1995 to 2009,and was a Member of Parliament from 1996 to 2010.
Metiria Leanne Agnes Stanton Turei is a New Zealand academic and former 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.
Te Pāti Māori,also known as the Māori Party,is a political party in New Zealand advocating Māori rights. With the exception of a handful of general electorates,Te Pāti Māori contests the reserved Māori electorates,in which its main rival is the Labour Party.
Māori politics is the politics of the Māori people,who were the original inhabitants of New Zealand and who are now the country's largest minority. Before the arrival of Pākehā(Europeans) in New Zealand,Māori society was based largely around tribal units,and chiefs provided political leadership. With the British settlers of the 19th century came a new British-style government. From the outset,Māori sought representation within this government,seeing it as a vital way to promote their people's rights and improve living standards. Modern Māori politics can be seen as a subset of New Zealand politics in general,but has a number of distinguishing features,including advocacy for indigenous rights and Māori sovereignty. Many Māori politicians are members of major,historically European-dominated political parties,but several Māori parties have been formed.
New Zealand Republic Inc. is an organisation formed in 1994 whose object is to support the creation of a New Zealand republic.
Russel William Norman is a New Zealand politician and environmentalist. He was a Member of Parliament and co-leader of the Green Party. Norman resigned as an MP in October 2015 to work as Executive Director of Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand.
David James Clendon is a New Zealand former politician. He was a list Member of Parliament in the New Zealand House of Representatives for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2009 until 2017. He later served one term on the Far North District Council from 2019 to 2022.
Eugenie Meryl Sage is a environmentalist and former New Zealand politician. Since the 2011 election,she has been a Green Party list MP in the House of Representatives and served as the Minister of Conservation and Land Information and the Associate Minister for the Environment from 2017 to 2020. She concluded her parliamentary term following the 2023 New Zealand general election.
Heather Janet Logie is a New Zealand politician and a former member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. She is a member of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Denise Maree Roche is a New Zealand politician. She was a member of the Waiheke Local Board and the New Zealand House of Representatives,where she represented the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2011 to 2017.
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.
Holly Ruth Walker is a former member of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2011 to 2014,as a Green Party list MP. She is deputy Director of The Helen Clark Foundation,and a writer and book reviewer.
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. Genter was elected to each Parliament from 2011 to 2023 on the party lists,before being elected as the Member of Parliament for the Rongotai electorate in the 2023 election. 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.
Mojo Celeste Mathers is a New Zealand politician and a former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Green Party. She became known through her involvement with the Malvern Hills Protection Society and helped prevent the Central Plains Water Trust's proposal to build a large irrigation dam in Coalgate. She was a senior policy advisor to the Green Party between 2006 and 2011. Mathers was elected to the 50th term of Parliament in 2011,becoming the country's first deaf Member of Parliament.
Marama Mere-Ana Davidson is a New Zealand politician who entered the New Zealand Parliament in 2015 as a list-member representing the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand,of which she became the female co-leader in 2018.
Chlöe Charlotte Swarbrick is a New Zealand politician. Following a high-profile but unsuccessful run for the 2016 Auckland mayoral election,she became a parliamentary candidate for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand,standing in the 2017 New Zealand general election and was elected as a member of the New Zealand Parliament at the age of 23. In the 2020 election,Swarbrick was elected as the Member of Parliament for Auckland Central,becoming the second Green Party MP ever to win an electorate seat,and the first without a tacit endorsement from a major party leader. She retained Auckland Central in the 2023 election. On 2 February 2024,Swarbrick announced her bid for co-leadership of the Green Party following the resignation of James Shaw.
Teanau Tuiono is a New Zealand politician. In 2020 he became a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives as a representative of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Joseph Mooney is a New Zealand politician. In 2020 he was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the National Party in the Southland electorate.
Elizabeth Frances (Mitzi) Nairn (1942–2023) was an advocate for women's rights and an anti-racist worker in New Zealand. She spoke about Pākehārespecting Māori under Te Tiriti o Waitangi. She was a founding member of Auckland Committee on Racism and Discrimination (ACORD) and Tāmaki Treaty Workers,and part of setting up Project Waitangi/Network Waitangi.
