All articles by Russel Norman
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We love nature and we will fight to protect what we love
Russel Norman, Greenpeace Executive Director, spoke to thousands at the March for Nature on 19 September 2026. This is his speech.
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Burdening NZ with $22 billion debt for Uncle Sam’s Wars?
Do we really want to spend $22 billion on warships whose only function is to slot into the US war machine?
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Raiding the IVL again to pay for the bed tax
The International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy (IVL) is being raided yet again by the Government, this time to replace the bed tax it had previously promised to consider.
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Dairy corporations have poisoned the well in Canterbury
Notes for my presentation to the Canterbury Regional Council
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Don’t put a luxury resort on Rangitoto Island
The Conservation Amendment Bill would allow the Minister of Conservation to open up Rangitoto Island for luxury resorts.
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Simeon Brown’s disastrous decision to cancel the Gas Transition Plan (and buy a lotto ticket instead)
New Zealand is in the middle of an energy transition
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Environment NGOs call for dumping of the Government’s RMA replacement bills
New Zealand’s largest environment NGOs have called for the Natural Environment Bill and the Planning Bill to be thrown out by the Government.
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New toxic chemicals report shows NZ has lessons to learn
Greenpeace is welcoming the report from the Human Rights Commission into the human rights implications of the use of PCP in New Zealand.
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We need to clean up the dirty flood of secret money into political parties
The flood of secret money flowing into political parties shows the urgent need to clean up the electoral finance rules, says Greenpeace's Russel Norman.
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Greenpeace calls for citizens assembly to reform electoral finance laws
Greenpeace is calling on all political parties to support a citizens assembly to reform electoral finance laws in light of the alarming flood of political donations threatening to drown democracy in New Zealand.