Weekly Catchup w/ The Green Party’s Ricardo Menendez March: 9 April, 2025

Parliament’s Justice Committee recently released a report into the ACT Party’s Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill.

With 90% of the bill’s 300,000 submissions being opposed to it, the select committee’s 45-page report recommended that the treaty principles bill should not proceed, with National and NZ first both committed to voting it down in its upcoming second reading.

Just this week, the government announced that they would be investing $12 billion dollars into the New Zealand Defence Force over the next four years, as part of a plan to bring defence spending to 2% of our GDP.

And Prime Minister Christopher Luxon recently condemned the tariffs of 10% that had been placed on New Zealand exports by US President Donald Trump.

For their weekly Catch Up with the Green Party’s Ricardo Menendez-March, Oto talked to him about the party’s take on all of these issues.