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Speaker 1: The Greens want to lead the next government.

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Speaker 2: We're not just here to lead the opposition.

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Speaker 1: We are here because we want to.

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Speaker 2: Lead the least government.

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Speaker 1: This is from their event at the weekend. Co lead

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Speaker 1: Chloe's Warbrick admits they've quote got work to do with

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Speaker 1: Poland just under ten percent and labor in the early thirties,

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Speaker 1: So how's this going to work? Cassin Dale Hunt is

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Speaker 1: a former Green Party and p joins me this morning. Catherine,

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Speaker 1: good morning, what in now? How are you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, I'm good. You're trying to leave the next government.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's a little ambitious of them?

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Speaker 2: I think politicians of smaller parties are required to talk

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Speaker 2: like this. I also think there is a really strong

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Speaker 2: need in this country this time to stop the incredible

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Speaker 2: damage being done to communities and to the environment by

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Speaker 2: the current government, and so leadership is required, and I

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Speaker 2: think that the Greens and Party Marty are going to

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Speaker 2: need to be strong in order to push labor out

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Speaker 2: of the center, to actually do some very strong, brave

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Speaker 2: and authentic work to get rid of this government and

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Speaker 2: actually make a country that is it looks after its

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Speaker 2: people and environment again. So you know, go for it.

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Speaker 2: But you've got to go for it realistically by building

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Speaker 2: relationships with the other small party on the left and

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Speaker 2: making sure that there is a realistic and brave approach

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Speaker 2: right now because people are looking for it.

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Speaker 1: So you reckon they need to better integrate themselves with

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Speaker 1: to party Maori and increase them and increase the bargaining

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Speaker 1: gun problem.

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Speaker 2: I think that those parties have to tivity policies in common.

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Speaker 2: I think they both care about the inequality gap. I

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Speaker 2: think they both care about the state of the environment,

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Speaker 2: so I think that they have to You know, parties

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Speaker 2: have to compete for the vote in the current system,

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Speaker 2: but there is also a really strong need for both

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Speaker 2: those parties to build their vote so that they can

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Speaker 2: negotiate strongly with labor so that we can have some

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Speaker 2: genuine procressor policy. I mean, for example, the Greens have

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Speaker 2: got a very decent tax policy. Labor need to come

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Speaker 2: up with some really strong policy.

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Speaker 1: It's strong, it's as strong, it's an out there policy.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's good.

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Speaker 2: Well your politics that I think there's the care of

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Speaker 2: people through good taxes and.

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Speaker 1: What would be your for the Greens going into this,

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Speaker 1: What is the bottom line, what's the one area that

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Speaker 1: they should not compromise on.

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Speaker 2: I don't really think like that, Ryan, but I think

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Speaker 2: if you're going to talk about it, these two bottom lines.

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Speaker 2: One is we have to do something about the growth

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Speaker 2: inequality that this government is entrenching, and we have to

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Speaker 2: do in all kinds of fronts. And we also have

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Speaker 2: to protect our environments for future generations. And those are

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Speaker 2: two things that absolutely as well as protected tededity or

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Speaker 2: white technique. There's a terrible attack right now on Marty

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Speaker 2: by this government and on THDT. So those are three

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Speaker 2: things they have to be done. They can be done,

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Speaker 2: but you actually have to be brave to do them

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Speaker 2: and show some leadership.

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Speaker 1: Catherine, appreciate your time this morning. Captain Dalla Hunting, former

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Speaker 1: Green Party MP.

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