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THURSDAY, 24AUGUST, 2023 |THE GERALDINE NEWS |PAGE 5 GENERAL ELECTION 2023 GNews is featuring Waitaki and Rangitātā electorate candidates in the weeks leading up to the 14 October general election. Green Party: Pleasance Hansen Pleasance Hansen is the GreenPartys Waitaki electorate candidate. Shes aleadership coach with abackground that includes growing up on adairy farm,driving buses, and teaching. What is your top priority this General Election? To bring the focus back to the environment and nature. Webelieve and know that we depend on nature for our economy. Theyre inextricably linked. Related to that, its about helping New Zealand meet its commitment to halting our emissions by 2030. How will your party make housing more available? We want to support first home buyers financially, and we would put in healthy air standards -proper ventilation in every home - within the first 100 days. We want to halt the exorbitantrise inrents; tokeep it below three per cent rise per year. And tointroduce a warrantoffitness for landlords and landladies. Whatwill improve New Zealands delivery in the health sector? The Green Party believes the rural sector is poorlyserved. We want to increase funding for Pharmac, and we want to hear what our rural people need as health priorities. We would be led by what thecommunitytells us; thats how theGreens work. New Zealand students performance in reading, maths, and science in PISA [Programme for International Student Assessment run by the OECD] shows longer-term decline. How will your party address this? Teachers need good working conditions, which are the working environment for children. Wewant school lunches for every kid. We were pleased to see physics, chemistry, and biology put back into the draft science curriculum. Reading and maths and science are still the fundamentals Lets go backand look at what we were doing exceptionally well when we had someofthehigheststandardsof literacy in the world. What are the main issues confronting the primary sector? One ofthe biggest issues isthe crippling debt they [farmers] carry. We want to negotiate with banks to change their financial structures toget lower interest loans to help farmers. New Zealand is dependent on farming. Also, we want to help farmers transition to awiderrange ofincome streams, with afocus on regenerative farming. What is your party offering that will improve the lives ofpeople inGeraldine? We need to encourage slow tourism: for people to come to Geraldine and stay for a couple of days.Its better for the environment and the local economy. We are committed to extending Jobs for Nature; we are also committed to becoming predator-free by 2050. Theyre commitments tothe natural environment that will improve life for people. And the healthy air standards will improve peoples lives Our guaranteed minimum incomewould give $64per month to everyone on aGoldCard. To learn more about Pleasance Hansen, go to greens.org.nz/pleasance_hansen_2023. JAN FINLAYSON CRACKED WINDSCREEN? SERVICING ALL RURAL COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH CANTERBURY ✔ Combined Service! -Fix Both Vehicle &Home Glass ✔ Direct billing toInsurance Companies ✔ TIMARU OWNED -No Remote call Centre 23 Theodosia St, Timaru. Call 0800 441-331 DemocracyNZ: Roger Small DemocracyNZs Waitaki electorate candidate is Waimate farmer Roger Small. He has a cropping and lamb fattening operation and chairs the Waihou Wainono Catchment Community Group. What is your top priority this General Election? Im very concerned about centralisation and loss of democracy for our small communities. Especiallyaround Three Watersand theNatural and Built Environment Bill. Also, the Bill of Rights;wewant to see it preserved andprotected and madestronger than it currentlyis. Andwed like to see race taken out ofeverything and for everything tobebased on need; for us all to be treated as one andnot divided. How will your party make housing more available? Theres a lack of rental properties for workers. The tenancy laws are verystrong, and they almost favour the tenant rather than the property owner. Theres noincentive for the property ownertorent thepropertiesout. We would make itso that the law was fair to both parties.And wedsee more houses built where theyre needed; thats for the private sector. What will improve New Zealands delivery in the health sector? We need tohave more nurses and doctors being trained. Quotasaround ethnicities need to stop. Also, we need to get away from the dual health authorities and treat us as one. We want to see prioritygiven to the front line. We would like to see more emphasis on a preventative and holistic approach to health. New Zealand students performance in reading, maths, and science in PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment run by the OECD] shows longer-term decline. How will your party address this? We want the education system toget back to basics: reading, writing,and arithmetic. And pathways to employment so students arent doing extra subjects thatdont helpthemwhen they get into the real world. They should be learning about managing finances and how to go down pathways theyre interested in. The whole schooling thing has got to be practical; aplace theyd like togoand learn and feel empowered so that itsgiving them adirection in life. What are the main issues confronting the primary sector? The loss of property rights for farmers and landowners through SNAs [Significant Natural Areas] aswell asthe National Policy Statement for[Indigenous] Biodiversity, the Sites andAreas of Significance to Maori, andthe NationalPolicy Statement for Freshwater [Management]. The RMA [ResourceManagement Act 1991] needsto be reformed. We would repeal and replace the 2002 Carbon [ClimateChange] ResponseAct.Theres focus on tree planting, but alot of the land is good productive land, and some has alot of biodiversity. We think we should focusonbeing resilientand adapting to weatherevents. Were not going to change the climate here inNew Zealand. [Our] farmers are very efficient at producing food for the world, and ifwestop production, countrieslessefficient than ourswill fill thevoid,which willhaveawarmingeffect. What is your party offering that will improve the lives of people in Geraldine? We need to reduce inflation. And we need to make sure the people can have involvement in the things that affect Geraldine. We would make sure funds are going to the right places; for health services and other things the community needs. To learn more about Roger Small, visit his campaigns Facebook page or email Roger.Small@democracynz.org. JAN FINLAYSON
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