Little and Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei will share the limelight - and resulting media coverage - at a joint event on Sunday, January 29. Labour and the Greens have signed a formal memorandum or understanding to work together until the election. One of them is to get around the country with a joint policy statement - talk to a collection of audiences right across the country on a policy area that we have common ground on. Today, he denied a joint state of the nation event could result in voters looking at the two parties as one and the same. Green Party co-leader James Shaw said the parties felt there was more to be gained than lost from holding a joint event.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 16, 2017 23:59 UTC