Media Statement 3 Nov 2011
Laurence Boomert, 49, will stand for Wellington Central as a candidate for a new political party – the New Economics
Party.
Boomert was born and raised in Wellington but currently lives in Golden Bay.
During the 1990s he was this country’s leading green business proponent establishing what became the Sustainable
Business Network.
He currently runs the Bank of Real Solutions a website of community can-do success stories and is a trustee of Living
Economies an educational trust dedicated to bringing forward sustainable economic systems. He is a father of three
daughters.
“I am standing because we have a rotten money system destroying the planet and I want a future for my kids. We have
started a party which faces up to the hard problems – depleting resources, climate change and economic turmoil – and
develops realistic policies for the 21st century.”
He said the idea for the party arose only two months ago so the party isn’t yet registered, although recognised with the
Electoral Office.
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For policy see http://neweconomics.net.nz