Editing Values Party (section)

{{Short description|Political party in New Zealand}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox political party
| country = New Zealand
| name = Values Party
| colorcode = {{party color|Values Party}}
| logo = Values Party of New Zealand logo.png
| leader = 
| chairman = 
| founder = [[Tony Brunt]]
| foundation = 30 May 1972<ref name="Barry-Frankland" />
| dissolution = 1990
| predecessor = 
| successor = [[Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand|Green Party]]
| ideology = [[Environmentalism]] <br> [[Progressivism]]
| position = 
| colours = {{colour box|{{party color|Values Party}}}} Green
| international = 
| european = 
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}}
The '''Values Party''' was a [[New Zealand political party]]. It is considered the world's first national-level environmentalist party,<ref name="Barry-Frankland">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BXzsAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA461|title=International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics|last1=Barry|first1=John|last2=Frankland|first2=E. Gene|date=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-13555-396-8|page=461|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=History {{!}} Green Party of Canada|url=https://www.greenparty.ca/en/party/history|website=www.greenparty.ca|quote=The first national green party in the world, the Values Party, was started in the early 1970s in New Zealand.}}</ref> pre-dating the use of "[[Green politics|Green]]" as a political label. It was established in May 1972 at [[Victoria University of Wellington]]. Its first leader was [[Tony Brunt]], and Geoff Neill, the party's candidate in the [[Dunedin North (New Zealand electorate)|Dunedin North]] electorate, became the Deputy Leader.<ref name=":0">{{cite web  |url = http://www.globalgreens.org/literature/dann/chapterfive  |title = From Earth's last islands: The development of the first two Green parties in Tasmania and New Zealand  |last = Dann  |first = Christine  |year = 1999  |website = Global Greens  |publisher = Lincoln University  |access-date = 23 February 2014  |quote = In June 1972 Geoff Neill, a PhD student and an assistant lecturer in economics and industrial relations, wrote to introduce himself. He had read an article about Values in the Otago University student paper, critic, and thought he could get support for Values in Dunedin from disillusioned Labourites and younger people. Before too long he had been made Deputy Leader and was writing to advise on the content of the manifesto.  |archive-date = 2 March 2014  |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140302001259/http://www.globalgreens.org/literature/dann/chapterfive  |url-status = dead  }}</ref>