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Housing Warrant of Fitness Must Be Enforceable
Friday, 24 April 2015, 3:12 pm | New Zealand First Party
It is heartening that Housing Minister Nick Smith has finally accepted that there is a rental housing problem in Christchurch, says New Zealand First Housing Spokesperson Denis O'Rourke. More >>
Bill Targets Registration of Social Workers
Friday, 24 April 2015, 2:41 pm | New Zealand First Party
“We should demand the highest of standards when it comes to the care of our children,” says Spokesperson for Social Development Darroch Ball. More >>
More House Buying Gloom for Auckland with Record Migration
Thursday, 23 April 2015, 4:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
The latest record migration figures continue to cast a shadow of gloom over Auckland house hunters, says New Zealand First. More >>
More House Buying Gloom for Auckland with Record Migration
Thursday, 23 April 2015, 4:23 pm | New Zealand First Party
The latest record migration figures continue to cast a shadow of gloom over Auckland house hunters, says New Zealand First. More >>
Death Sparks Questions Over Vetting of Refugees
Thursday, 23 April 2015, 1:15 pm | New Zealand First Party
While it is sad to hear of the death of refugee Kadhem Chilab Abbas, 42, in Iraq , there are serious questions that should be raised over the vetting of refugees coming to New Zealand, says New Zealand First. More >>
Drive to Enrol More Children Puts Quality at Risk
Thursday, 23 April 2015, 11:27 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Deputy Leader Tracey Martin says the government continues to promote early childhood education for increasing numbers of preschool children to meet National’s artificial Better Public Service Target. More >>
New Zealand First Announces New List Member of Parliament
Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 2:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is pleased to announce that Ms Ria Bond will become a list Member of Parliament for New Zealand First. With the New Zealand First Leader now the Member of Parliament for Northland the next available New Zealand First list nominee becomes ... More >>
Mama And Pepi Packs Deserve National Roll Out
Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 11:18 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First welcomes the Waikato District Health Board’s decision to fund Mama and Pepi (baby) Packs for expectant mothers and believes such an initiative should be adopted throughout New Zealand. “This is fantastic and will help Waikato ... More >>
U-Turn on Budget Commitment for Free GP Visits
Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 10:54 am | New Zealand First Party
The National government has gone back on its Budget announcement of free GP visits and prescriptions for under 13s, says New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters and Member of Parliament for Northland. More >>
Band Not Good Enough for Anzac Centennial Say Culture Snobs
Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 9:11 am | New Zealand First Party
Wellington’s volunteer 7th Battalion Band has been thoughtlessly ruled “not good enough” for Wellington’s centennial Anzac Day Dawn Serviceservice by cultural snobs, breaking a link between the battalion that served at Gallipoli and its band ... More >>
Speech to Stewart Island Public Meeting
Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 9:08 am | New Zealand First Party
Speech by New Zealand First Leader and Member of Parliament for Northland, Rt Hon Winston Peters More >>
Māori Affairs Minister Urged to Stop Holmes Farm Sale
Monday, 20 April 2015, 3:44 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First wants the Minister for Māori Development to seek an injunction against the Māori Education Trust to block the sale of the former Holmes Farm – Mapuna Atea. More >>
This Time Tony Abbott Does Our Minister of Defence’s Job
Monday, 20 April 2015, 9:59 am | New Zealand First Party
Australian Prime Minister, the Hon Tony Abbott, has again shown up the New Zealand government by revealing the likely cost of acquiring Boeing’s C17 Globemaster to be at least $1 billion. More >>
Can the ‘Minister of Defence’ Be Anymore Hopeless?
Monday, 20 April 2015, 9:18 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is further questioning the competence of the Minister of Defence after receiving another 13 word ‘brush-off’, this time to questions around the Navy’s key Littoral Operational Support Capability Project. More >>
Report ‘Driven to Distraction’ Should Be Adopted
Monday, 20 April 2015, 9:16 am | New Zealand First Party
The car review website dogandlemon.com report “Driven to Distraction’ researched and published by Matthew Wilson ( www.dogandlemon.com ) should be adopted and implemented in full by the government, says New Zealand First. More >>
Stewart Island Public Meeting with Winston Peters
Friday, 17 April 2015, 4:25 pm | New Zealand First Party
Stewart Island Public Meeting with Winston Peters – Tuesday 21 April New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters and Spokesperson for Conservation Clayton Mitchell MP will hold a public meeting on Stewart Island to discuss the impact of Shark Dive ... More >>
What to Do with the Army’s Surplus Light Armoured Vehicles
Friday, 17 April 2015, 10:29 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First wants the 2015 Defence White Paper to look at options for the 35 Light Armoured Vehicles reportedly declared surplus by the National Government in 2010. The Party is eyeing these LAVs as a way to regenerate lost capabilities ... More >>
Minister Blanks Airbus, Embraer And Lockheed Martin
Thursday, 16 April 2015, 11:40 am | New Zealand First Party
A written answer provided to New Zealand First indicates that the Minister of Defence is not doing his job by backing Boeing’s C17 instead of reviewing air transport options in the promised 2015 Defence White Paper. More >>
Govenrment Ignoring Provincial New Zealand at Its Peril
Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 4:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The Government appears oblivious to the dire future of New Zealand dairying whilst obstinately refusing to do anything about it,” says Rt. Hon Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First More >>
Government Way Behind Eight Ball on Corporate Tax Avoiders
Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 2:20 pm | New Zealand First Party
“Given that the New Zealand government is softening up the public for a GST increase on imported goods and services, by lowering the $400 exemption, it is high time to stop turning a blind eye to corporate tax avoidance in New Zealand,” says New Zealand ... More >>
