Green Movement talks

Press, 7 December 1987, Page 7

Green Movement talks

By

SARAH SANDS

A forum to co-ordinate Green Movement philosophies in New Zealand will be hosted by the Values Party next year. Ms Janet Roborgh, a coleader of the party, said yesterday that a co-ordi-nated Green Movement was essential to provide a real alternative to the user-pays thrust of both the Labour and National parties. 'Ms Roborgh, of New Plymouth, was in Christchurch to attend the Can-

terbury regional conference of the Values Party at the week-end. “Values has always been at the forefront of innovative political thought and it is now crucial for a broadlybased Green Movement to emerge as an alternative political force which represents the needs and desires of ordinary people." The party would host a forum at where interested groups could discuss concerted action,

she said. The forum would provide a venue “where the diverse threads of the Green philosophies can be woven together into a coherent movement” Ms Roborgh said more people were becoming disillusioned with the LabourGovernment Which had chosen to distance itself “even from its own members.” The National Party’s overt approval of Labour policies meant there was no Opposition in Parlia-

ment “Heqce the desire, for a political system which places people before profits is growing rapidly as Rogernomics hits the pockets of so many hard working people. "The present push for economic efficiency is also effectively limiting the lifestyles of average New Zealanders so that they are feeling less and less able to control their own lives.”