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Police under-Resourced And Undervalued Due to Budget Cuts
Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 3:11 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is concerned that the Police are hugely under-resourced and frontline officers are being put at risk due to budget cuts. More >>
Government’s Regional Spending Is Not Investment
Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 2:52 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Government is being deliberately misleading when it states that it is ‘investing right across the regions’ says Rt Hon Winston Peters. This follows the release of the Regional Government Expenditure Report today. More >>
Mental Wellbeing for Young People is Essential
Monday, 7 October 2013, 3:14 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is urging the Government to provide substantial support for young people and their mental wellbeing. More >>
Government Takes with One Hand, Gives with the Other
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 2:38 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Government’s intervention in tackling the housing shortage takes with one hand, and gives with the other says New Zealand First. The Government has forced first home buyers to now have a 20% deposit for a bank loan, but today announced a social ... More >>
Village Mentality Over Grass Sweeps Supercity
Wednesday, 2 October 2013, 3:20 pm | New Zealand First Party
The arguments sweeping Auckland over the responsibility for cutting the grass on the road side outside houses shows that the “Super City” is still a collection of arguing villages, says New Zealand First local government spokesperson Andrew ... More >>
Health Insurance Requirement For Parent Reunion Migrants
Wednesday, 2 October 2013, 1:54 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First would require all parent reunion migrants entering New Zealand to take out health insurance on their arrival to ease the pressure on New Zealand’s healthcare system. More >>
Crime Statistics Don’t Mean Less Crime
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 2:46 pm | New Zealand First Party
The latest crime statistics are no cause for gloating by the Police Minister who should be redoubling efforts to get more front line police back in action, says associate Law and Order spokesperson Asenati Lole-Taylor. More >>
Errors Do Not Help Local Government Elections
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 2:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
“Thousands of residents may have been put off voting in the Christchurch local government elections because of an error in the pamphlet telling people how to vote,” says New Zealand First Local Government spokesperson Andrew Williams. More >>
Tattoo Industry a “Ticking Time Bomb” Ignored by Government
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 4:08 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand could be facing an epidemic of blood borne diseases if controls are not imposed on tattooists soon warns New Zealand First. More >>
Kiwi Sailors Fought Bravely But Bigger Resources Won
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 10:04 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has praised the Kiwi sailors who came within a whisker of winning back the America’s Cup but in the end lost to big money and home team rules. More >>
Protecting Chidren from Criminal Activity
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 9:00 am | New Zealand First Party
A Member’s Bill to make criminal activity in the presence of a minor an aggravating factor during sentencing passed its First Reading in the House last night says New Zealand First. More >>
Minister Must Resign Over Whānau Ora Deception
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 4:23 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has called for the resignation of Tariana Turia, the Minister responsible for Whānau Ora, for providing funding for an organisation and then repeatedly denying it. More >>
Government Truancy Service Failing Schools
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 2:32 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has again warned that the Government’s truancy service, Integrated Attendance Service (IAS), is failing students and their schools. Information received under the OIA shows serious problems with both the contracts and the capacity of ... More >>
Peters Questions Big Spending Whānau Ora Process
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 3:19 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has called for an end to the highly questionable Whānau Ora process and to return the public money to programmes that actually help New Zealanders who genuinely need assistance. More >>
State Bosses Get Hefty Rises While Health Clinics Struggle
Friday, 20 September 2013, 10:54 am | New Zealand First Party
It is disgusting that state sector bosses are getting huge pay rises while low cost health clinics are threatened with closure, says New Zealand First Health spokesperson Barbara Stewart. More >>
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 >>
