Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
New Zealand First Party - Latest News [Page 157]
PM’s Focus Should Be China – Not Royalty
Wednesday, 18 September 2013, 11:56 am | New Zealand First Party
Prime Minister John Key should be heading to China to restore New Zealand’s reputation over recent contamination scares in the dairy industry rather than hanging around the Royal Family, says New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
Snapper Changes Disadvantage Recreational Fishers - Again
Tuesday, 17 September 2013, 4:33 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says changes to daily bag limits in the Snapper 1 Fishery announced today have once again come at the expense of recreational fishers, while leaving quota and destructive fishing practices for the commercial sector untouched. More >>
Taxpayer May Fund Private Family Business
Tuesday, 17 September 2013, 3:55 pm | New Zealand First Party
Taxpayers may find themselves funding a private family business in the Government’s alarming experiment of charter schools says New Zealand First. The Government today named the five charter schools which will be receiving $19 million in funding as ... More >>
Loss of More Land to Foreign Interests a Betrayal
Friday, 13 September 2013, 11:38 am | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters says the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) has again betrayed New Zealanders with the sale of one of the country’s biggest farms to North American interests. More >>
Report Shames National Wreckers and Spoilers
Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 1:31 pm | New Zealand First Party
The latest report on Government changes to the Resource Management Act shows that New Zealand is being run by parties of environmental wreckers and spoilers. This follows the release of a report from Sir Geoffrey Palmer to the Fish and Game Council ... More >>
Government Puppets Show Their “flexible” Principles
Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 12:56 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says the Māori and United Future Parties are again showing their flexible principles and their fear of the 2014 election by announcing they will not support the latest changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA). More >>
Brownlee Bullies Uninsured Home and Section Owners
Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 12:45 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has accused Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee of bullying the Quake Outcasts Group by threatening them with punitive legal costs for a government appeal against an action the group won in the High Court. More >>
Transfield Services Exposed But Not Exonerated
Friday, 6 September 2013, 1:02 pm | New Zealand First Party
The adverse publicity that Transfield Services has received this week due to questions first raised in Parliament by New Zealand First has forced Transfield to come clean and honour their contractual obligations to their New Zealand businesses and workers. More >>
Schoolgirls Now Dragged into Seedy Sex Scene
Thursday, 5 September 2013, 2:21 pm | New Zealand First Party
Schoolgirls are now being targeted by pimps, prostitutes and seedy individuals cruising South Auckland streets looking for young women and nothing is being done to protect the teenagers, claims New Zealand First social policy spokesperson Asenati Lole-Taylor. ... More >>
Government Abandons the School Journal
Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 5:09 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Government has forced the closure of Learning Media by making it compete unfairly in a tight competitive publishing market says New Zealand First. More >>
Peters - General Debate Speech: Fiji & SIS
Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 4:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
We have a most serious situation on our hands. Once more a top security agency has acted illegally and it’s time for the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to front up. More >>
Prime Minister Must Come Clean on Illegal SIS Raid
Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 3:34 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has called on the Prime Minister and the Security Intelligence Service to explain to Parliament why they helped Fiji’s military dictator target a pro-Fiji democracy group in Auckland. More >>
Further Inaccurate Data from National Standards
Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 2:46 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Government is failing to learn from its past mistakes of publishing inaccurate data at the expense of students says New Zealand First. An independent study commissioned by the Ministry of Education has found teachers' use of the national standards last ... More >>
Alarm Bells Sound at NZ’s Underperformance
Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 12:19 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says alarm bells are sounding in many vital areas of the economy according to this year’s Global Competitiveness Index. The Index ranks countries according to their performance in areas such as innovation, market size, market efficiency, ... More >>
Congratulations Albert Wendt - Order of NZ
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 3:11 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has congratulated Emeritus Professor Albert Wendt who will tomorrow receive the highest honour for service to New Zealand, the Order of New Zealand, in Auckland. More >>
NZ SIS Illegally Helped Fiji Military Dictator
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 2:59 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has revealed that the Security Intelligence Service illegally raided the Fijian Democracy and Freedom movement in Auckland last year, under the Terrorism Suppression Act at the behest of Fiji’s military dictatorship. More >>
Midwife’s Treatment of Teenage Mother Is Scandalous
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 2:58 pm | New Zealand First Party
Maternity services are long overdue for a shakeup because of the lack of professional standards among midwives, says New Zealand First. Health spokesperson Barbara Stewart says it’s a sad reflection on the state of maternity services that a midwife received ... More >>
Winston Peters Speech - Employers and Manufacturers Assc
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 8:52 am | New Zealand First Party
Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today and to share New Zealand First’s thinking on economic policy and in particular the future of manufacturing. More >>
Stream Of Job Cuts a Nightmare for New Zealanders
Friday, 30 August 2013, 2:53 pm | New Zealand First Party
The loss of more than a hundred experienced Department of Conservation staff is a blow for conservation and another layer of people on the National Government’s social and economic scrap heap, says New Zealand First Labour Relations spokesperson ... More >>
Health Ministry Accountable for Rest Home Standards
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 3:50 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Ministry of Health must start enforcing better standards in rest homes, says New Zealand First Health Spokesperson Barbara Stewart. More >>
