Many local Greens may have caught Frank de Jong at one of the two venues he spoke at on Monday the 30th of July. Frank spoke earlier in the evening at Auckland University and later on at the Green Party's Auckland Province meeting. InfonewsNZ posted this report on YouTube:

Throughout the 1980s, de Jong, 51, was active on the issues of nuclear weapons, Ontario's old growth forests, and Central American solidarity. In the early 90s he became involved in Green electoral politics and now argues for true cost pricing, green tax shifting, 100% renewable electricity, preventive health care, province-wide organic agriculture, an end to poverty, walkable communities linked by rail, bio-based manufacturing and total waste diversion