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NZFirst Policy Announcement: Capped Time-period For Job Seeker Beneficiaries
Tuesday, 26 September 2023, 12:50 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First today is announcing a policy on adjusting the rules and restrictions around access to the Job Seeker Benefit. New Zealand First’s policy is to introduce a capped time-period for any person to access the Job Seeker Benefit during their ... More >>
Labour’s Pharmac Policy A Placebo
Tuesday, 26 September 2023, 12:37 pm | New Zealand First Party
Labour has just announced a policy to increase Pharmac funding by $1billion over four years to fund additional medicines. With the current Pharmac budget of $1.2billion per year and needing a further $213million, by Minister Verrall’s own admission, ... More >>
Rt Hon Winston Peters RE: The Call For Corporate Manslaughter Legislation
Monday, 25 September 2023, 3:31 pm | New Zealand First Party
This matter begins with the Pike River investigation being inadequate, inexplicably lengthy, and after millions of dollars, the evidence that should have been placed before the public still has not been. We have always believed that Pike River is ... More >>
Foreign Minister’s Action – A Contempt For “Caretaker Government” Convention
Wednesday, 20 September 2023, 12:12 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta’s presence in New York today at the United Nations General Assembly is a contempt of New Zealand’s “caretaker government” convention. Despite the long-standing caretaker convention, Minister Mahuta is today ... More >>
“Back To Black Responsibly”: The Pre-Election Fiscal Update Changes Everything
Tuesday, 19 September 2023, 8:13 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters Speech to Silvereye Election Year Special The Wellington Club Wellington 6.00pm, 19 September, 2023 Within an hour of this speech there is going to be a debate between the political parties that the media, under ... More >>
The Pacific Reset & The Blue Continent
Monday, 18 September 2023, 4:50 pm | New Zealand First Party
Victoria University NZ Foreign Policy Class – INTP 244 4.10pm 18 September 2023 Rt Hon Winston Peters Thank you for your invitation to speak with you this afternoon about New Zealand Foreign Policy. After offering one or two general ... More >>
New Zealand First Party List
Saturday, 16 September 2023, 1:14 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is proud to announce the Party List for the upcoming 2023 General Election. We have had a great number of applicants and potential candidates moving through the selection process over the past few months. Our final selection for our ... More >>
PREFU Exposes Political Promises
Tuesday, 12 September 2023, 2:56 pm | New Zealand First Party
Today’s PREFU has some alarming statistics showing an economy deteriorating and the cost of unaffordable government expenditure, mainly in the 2022 and 2023 budgets. Despite this alarming economic and fiscal picture, political parties are making unaffordable ... More >>
Former Wellington Mayor Andy Foster To Stand For New Zealand First
Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 2:21 pm | New Zealand First Party
Former Wellington Mayor Andy Foster has announced he is standing for New Zealand First in the Mana electorate for the upcoming election. “As a former Mayor of our Capital City, Andy has an exceptional resume and level of professional and governance ... More >>
National's Tax Plan: Rehashing Past Failures
Wednesday, 30 August 2023, 12:39 pm | New Zealand First Party
National basing their future economic plan on variables like immigration and house prices is not not a formula for economic recovery. They are clearly relying on mass immigration and a mass foreign buy up of kiwi homes to fund its tax cuts - and their ... More >>
“Realism And Commonsense - Not Political Platitudes”
Sunday, 27 August 2023, 4:48 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters Public Meetings Devon Hotel 390 Devon Street East, New Plymouth 1pm, Sunday, 27 August 2023 Good afternoon and thank you for the chance to speak with you today. This province is famous for its energy resources, but long before ... More >>
Gloriavale Slavery Warrants Commission Of Enquiry
Saturday, 26 August 2023, 12:35 pm | New Zealand First Party
Today’s interview of the Deputy Prime Minister on The Nation was disturbing. I was in Cabinet between 2017 and 2020 Gloriavale was never drawn to my attention. To see the comfort being offered by the Regional Public Service Commissioner at the ... More >>
New Zealand First Policy Announcement
Sunday, 20 August 2023, 1:46 pm | New Zealand First Party
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People · The National/Act/Māori Party signed up to UNDRIP in 2010 – that obligated a response from government in 2019 - the starting point and origin of the He Puapua report – which was deceitfully ... More >>
“We Must Deal To This Racism”
Sunday, 20 August 2023, 1:44 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt. Hon Winston Peters Leader NZ First Public Meeting PIA Events Centre 55 Ward Street, Pukekohe 1pm August 20, 2023 Good afternoon. Thank you for the chance to speak with you today. And many thanks to our local New Zealand First team who have ... More >>
Policy Announcement: No Men In Women’s Spaces Or Sports
Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 4:23 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First policy is that the government has no business in the nation’s bedrooms. But for a government to allow biological men access to women and girl’s restrooms, changing rooms, and other safe places, goes against the commonsense and ... More >>
Kiwi Housing For Kiwis
Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 12:32 pm | New Zealand First Party
Those who think allowing foreign property buyers to buy property in New Zealand while never residing in our country in order to ‘add competition’ to our market, clearly don’t understand the struggle kiwis are having buying their first home. ... More >>
'For The Nation, The Whole Nation, And Nothing But The Nation'
Sunday, 13 August 2023, 8:48 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt. Hon Winston Peters Leader NZ First Public Meeting North Lounge Corinthian Convention Centre 154 Esk St, Invercargill 1pm August 13, 2023 Good afternoon and thank you for coming out today in the numbers that you have. And thanks to our local team who ... More >>
Christchurch Mayor Backs NZ First’s 2026 Commonwealth Games Bid
Monday, 7 August 2023, 3:48 pm | New Zealand First Party
At a packed public meeting yesterday in Christchurch, New Zealand First announced a policy to prepare a bid to hold the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch and key locations of the South Island. Within the last two weeks Victoria pulled out ... More >>
“We Need Our ‘Can-Do’ Attitude Back”
Sunday, 6 August 2023, 2:54 pm | New Zealand First Party
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and thank you for being here. Grateful thanks to the Canterbury New Zealand First team for organising this meeting. We are fifty-eight days out from early voting on 2nd October and everyday will be critical now. New ... More >>
'Give Whangarei And Northland A Fair Go'
Monday, 31 July 2023, 10:30 am | New Zealand First Party
Rt. Hon Winston Peters Public Meeting 1pm Sunday 30th 2023 Level 2 Lounge Semenoff Stadium 51 Okara Drive Whangārei Good afternoon and thank you for being here in such numbers. It’s great to announce the candidacy of Gavin Benney an experienced ... More >>
