Weekly Catchup w/ The Green Party's Ricardo Menendez-March: 17 September, 2025

The Greens recently made renewed calls to the government to recognise Palestinian statehood and place sanctions on Israel.

These calls were made both in light of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly which opened last week, as well as the recent 20,000-strong Pro-Palestinian protest in Tāmaki-Makaurau being the largest Pro-Palestinian protest in the history of Aotearoa.

Additionally, the Greens recently called for the voting period on the Māori wards referendum to be extended after candidate profiles were omitted on voting packs in a number of districts, despite being listed in voting papers.

Voters on the Māori roll in affected districts have begun receiving letters with the missing profiles, but concerns have been raised about the impacts to voter access to information caused by the error.

And, last week, the latest ETS auction in New Zealand, which was held on September 10, 2025, failed to attract any bids and resulted in no clearing price, making it the third consecutive failed auction in 2025 and the eighth consecutive failed auction overall

For our weekly catchup with the Green Party, Wednesday Wire Host Oto spoke with MP Ricardo Menendez-March to discuss all these issues