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OPINION: Your canine crusader was truly impressed by the almost unanimous support given by politicians of all stripes in Parliament to the recent passing of legislation for the NZ/EU free trade deal.

OPINION: James Shaw is the last of the real Greens – a person who until the end has lived up to the ideals of the original NZ Green Party, which first entered Parliament in 1999 when one of its founders, Jeanette Fitzsimmons, historically won the Coromandel seat. Rod Donald and Mike Ward were the other key founding members.

Tributes from across the political divide flowed last week for James Shaw, the Green Party co-leader who has called time on his nine year political career.

OPINION: Will departing Greens coleader James Shaw set up a new party?

OPINION: We hope the Green Party and its supporters are taking notice.

Green Party co-leader James Shaw says there are myths that have been spread surrounding the issue of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

The Ministry of Education (MOE) is copping flak over its decision to carpet 800 small and remote rural schools with synthetic tiles rather than wool.

OPINION: Cows are the favourite target of vegans, Greenpeace, the Green Party and plant-based food advocates.

OPINION: Your old mate notes that Conservation Minister and Green MP Eugene Sage was waxing lyrically about the recent legal protection of 11,800 hectares of new conservation land in the Mackenzie Basin.

OPINION: The Hound – like most in the rural sector would have – shuddered when the Green Party revealed it would like to hold the agriculture portfolio if it gets into government after the election.