New Zealand's key export earners - tourism and dairying - are headed for "a terrible collision" as a result of economic mismanagement, Green Party co-leader Russel Norman says.
Green Party co-leader Russel Norman says that New Zealand's "clean green" brand is being undermined.
Dr. Norman told the Greens' annual meeting in Christchurch on the weekend that both Labour and National governments failed to protect the environment.
When Labour was in office, Dr Norman said, it took advantage of the brand as tourism boomed but did nothing to protect waterways that were being overwhelmed by dairy effluent.
The National-led Government, he said, has moved from Labour’s malign neglect to active destruction of the country’s economic advantage.
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Dr. Norman said Prime Minister John Key’s idea of balance is to destroy the environment for GDP growth – which he says is an economic and environmental dead end.
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