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'We can aim higher': Greens address mining policy backlash

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 18 Nov 2025, 6:30pm
Green Party co-leaders Chlöe Swarbrick and Marama Davidson. Photo / Mark Mitchell

'We can aim higher': Greens address mining policy backlash

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 18 Nov 2025, 6:30pm

The Greens' mining policy has the Government rattled, and the party's pushing back.

It announced yesterday it will revoke fast-track coal, hard-rock gold, and seabed mining consents.

National's Nicola Willis claims it's 'economic vandalism' and ACT's David Seymour's slammed the party as 'terrorists'. 

Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says the party's simply showing its hand, and people should interrogate ministers more. 

"Apparently, we've got to choose between this binary option of whether people are on the dole or coal-mining - it just does not track to reality, we can aim a lot higher."

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