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Stop Phantom Party Funding
Wednesday, 12 June 2013, 2:16 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on the Speaker to stop recognising United Future as a political party in Parliament as the Electoral Commission has ruled that it must go through the process of registering a new party. More >>
Minister Confused Over National Standards Test
Wednesday, 12 June 2013, 8:54 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says the Education Minister’s denial the National Standards e-asTTle writing test was altered shows yet again a dysfunctional Ministry in crisis. More >>
Why Did David Henry Stop Investigating GCSB Leak?
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 4:15 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on the Prime Minister to explain why David Henry stopped investigating the leak of the Kitteridge report into the Government Communications Security Bureau. More >>
PM Has More to Explain About Dunne and GCSB Leak
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 3:10 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has called for the Prime Minister to explain the exact circumstances of Peter Dunne’s departure from Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee. More >>
Warning – National Standards Data Corrupt
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 11:40 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says today’s release of National Standards data should come with a warning label for parents that the information is “completely useless”. More >>
Government Ignores Ethnic Inequality In Housing and Health
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 8:47 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called for urgent action to address the serious problem of overcrowding in houses that is causing major health problems to Pacific and Maori children. More >>
PM Must Front up Over Leaks
Sunday, 9 June 2013, 10:31 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters New Zealand First Leader 9 June 2013 PM Must Front up Over Leaks Rt Hon Winston Peters has called on the Prime Minister to give officials the powers to seize the electronic records of communication between former Revenue Minister ... More >>
GCSB Case Should Go to Police
Friday, 7 June 2013, 3:58 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters says the case of the leaked Kitteridge report into the Government Communications Security Bureau should now be handed over to the Police. More >>
Parliament’s Shabby Day of Democracy
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 3:06 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters led New Zealand First MPs out of Parliament this afternoon in protest at Speaker David Carter’s inexplicable rulings over the status of United Future which has been deregistered by the Electoral Commission through lack of membership. More >>
Funding for Fewer than Half of CYF’s Reported Cases
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 5:08 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First congratulates the Government for the increase of funding into the national Sexual Violence Survivor Advocate through Rape Prevention Education (RPE) – but it falls short of providing help for all those who need it, says New Zealand ... More >>
PM Must Investigate Admitted Security Leak
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 4:01 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has called on the Prime Minister to take leaks from Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee seriously before New Zealand’s allies refuse to deal with us on sensitive issues. More >>
Drastic Action Needed Over Diabetes Explosion
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 11:43 am | New Zealand First Party
Drastic action including an assault on fatty fast foods and sweet drinks is needed to fight the looming diabetes epidemic says New Zealand First Health spokesperson Barbara Stewart. This follows the release of research that reveals more than 20 per ... More >>
Doubts Raised Over Charter School Contracts
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 11:26 am | New Zealand First Party
5 June 2013 Doubts Raised Over Charter School Contracts New Zealand First says the passing of the Education Amendment Bill creating charter schools is a blow to the state education system with no Government guarantee of success. Education spokesperson ... More >>
Peters Urges PM to Take GCSB Leaks Seriously
Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 3:29 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has urged the Prime Minister to take the issue of leaked material relating to the Government Communications Security Bureau seriously before there is another unfortunate security leak. More >>
Lack of Oversight in Expensive Novopay Debacle
Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 2:22 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has accused the Government of wasting taxpayers’ money and a lack of oversight with the failed Ministry of Education payroll system Novopay. This follows a highly critical report of the way the Ministry handled the new system. More >>
Winston Peters - What a Week
Friday, 31 May 2013, 1:06 pm | New Zealand First Party
Later today we will be opening the new New Zealand First office in Tauranga at 801 Cameron Road More >>
Reserve Bank Lacks Mandate to Act
Thursday, 30 May 2013, 2:29 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Reserve Bank Governor has the power to intervene in the high New Zealand dollar, but the Bank lacks the specific mandate to do so – and this situation will only keep feeding the appetite of speculators to play the New Zealand dollar says New ... More >>
Arrogant Abuse of Parliamentary Written Questions
Thursday, 30 May 2013, 1:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says Prime Minister John Key is holding Parliament in contempt by giving evasive answers to written parliamentary questions. Mr Key has repeatedly told MPs and journalists to put questions to him in writing and he would get “get ... More >>
Checkout Operators Are Skilled Workers
Thursday, 30 May 2013, 12:29 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is raising questions over how 49 Essential Skills visas were issued in 2012 for checkout operators, when there are 146,000 unemployed New Zealanders who are looking for work. More >>
Peters: Beyond Selling Off and Cutting Back
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 3:14 pm | New Zealand First Party
To understand anything about selling off and cutting back we need to first jump back seventy years to the words of a great Hungarian thinker – Karl Polanyi. More >>
