Talk:Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand

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Link on Aotearoa

I've noticed the link on the world Aotearoa (to Aotearoa) has come and gone. It should, in my opinion, go. The reasoning behind this? It is the organisations name. The article on George W. Bush doesn't link to George for example. I more appropiate place to have a link to Aotearoa would be somewhere on the opening line such as "New Zealand (Aotearoa) Parliament" --Midnighttonight 09:34, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I moved the Aotearoa down to the first use in the text of the article, as per standard practice. Mostlyharmless 00:23, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

1999 election

"In the 1999 election, the Greens gained 5.16% of the vote and seven seats in Parliament. The party's co-leader, Jeanette Fitzsimons, also won the electorate seat of Coromandel, believed to be a world-first in a First-past-the-post election system." Surely this is incorrect as New Zealand was under a Mixed Member Proportional electoral system at the time? 130.195.86.40 (talk) 23:55, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Electorate seats are still under first-past-the-post. In other words, electorate seats go to the candidate with the most votes, whether or not this is a majority. The MMP system balances this out using list seats.-gadfium 02:18, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

New MPs

If things go the way the opinion polls predict it, the Green Party will have a number of new MPs in the 50th New Zealand Parliament. The NZ politics task force has decided that the creation of biographies prior to the election can be assisted in the project space. Wikipedians with an interest in possible new MPs are most welcome to work on those draft biographies, which can be found here. Please note the rules that are listed on that page. Happy editing! And if you have questions on how to go about it, simply post on an article's talk page, and somebody with more experience will come and help. Schwede66 04:37, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

If anybody is interested in contributing to new MP pages, this collaboration might interest you. Hurry – this must be finished by this Friday. Schwede66 19:44, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Political orientation

The Green Party is described as politically "Left". As its roots lie in socialist political movements and social protest, and it is at the outside of mainstream political parties, shouldn't it be described as "far left"?124.197.15.138 (talk) 20:52, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

The party has some roots in socialist movements (I'm thinking of its time as part of the Alliance, and a couple of New Labour MPs going with the Greens after the split), but stronger roots in environmentalist movements. They are not the most left-wing party in Parliament at present, that would be Mana. I think the current description is appropriate.-gadfium 23:49, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

This could probably be revisited now that the Mana Party is out of Parliament. They are now the most "leftist" remaining Party. Teelosdomain (talk) 21:31, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

The Greens and Local Government

In the introductory section of the article it has this: "In addition, the Green Party contests Auckland Council elections under the City Vision banner, in concert with the Labour Party and the Alliance." This seems quite out of date? I'm not from Auckland so I don't know the specifics, but the wikipedia article for 'City Vision' doesn't have any mention of any candidates post 2010. Hence I would suggest getting rid of it from the opening section.

However, I do think there's the need to talk about the Green Party and local government at some point in this article. In Wellington, an increasing number of councillors have been running (and winning) on a Green Party ticket. Shouldn't that get some mention here, or is this article restricted solely to the parliamentary party? Ballofstring (talk) 11:33, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

That sounds like a reasonable idea. I'm sure that there are good numbers of Green Party members watching this page who have an overview of what is happen nationally, but who might perceive a conflict of interest. Other uninvolved editors could then copyedit it for NPOV. Schwede66 17:52, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

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Structure

Kia ora, I am one of the Party Co-convenors of the Green Party, hence I have a CoI, so I am unable to edit the page myself. However, there are a number of outdated areas listed below.

The structure section will need to be updated under the new Green Party constitution.

Structure

The party adopted a new constitution in 2022, named Te Waka Framework. This is a te tiriti-based structure that is derived from the party's charter and commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The framework contains four sections: Te Waka, Ngā Haumi, Te Hāpai, and Ngā Tumu, and is based on the journey of a waka.

Te Waka	Te Waka covers the governance and policy development and includes areas such as Kaunihera (Council), Te Rōpū Pounamu, Policy Hub, and Kaumātua Kākāriki.
Ngā Haumi	Ngā Haumi are the administration and operation aspects of the party and covers the party office.
Te Hāpai	Te Hāpai covers membership engagement and representation. It is instructed by and answerable to the membership and includes provinces, branches, and networks. One of the decision making bodies of the party, Member Assembly, also falls under Te Hāpai, as well as Te Awa, the party's magazine.
Ngā Tumu	Ngā Tumu are the leaders of the party and include both parliamentary caucus and local government caucus.

Iparxan (talk) 02:10, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Full disclosure. I've met Iparxan before. He approached me on how to go about updating this article. My suggestion was to use this transparent process, i.e. get an account and post on the talk page. Given that I was involved in this (I coached via Zoom screenshare), it probably should not be me who makes those suggested amendments. Schwede66 03:37, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

@Iparxan and Schwede66: Is this to replace the current "Three-petal structure" section, leaving the other three sections of "Structure" in place? If so, the paragraph on Te Rōpū Pounamu will need adjustment as it refers to that network as an unofficial "fourth petal".-gadfium 00:21, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes, this is to replace both the Structure section and the Te Rōpū Pounamu section. This page in general has a number of outdated information, so the blurb that was written is the first step of working out the process to get some of the sections updated. Thank you! Iparxan (talk) 23:15, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

 Done-gadfium 03:05, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

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