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New Zealand First Policy Announcement: Parliamentary Conscience Votes
Tuesday, 3 October 2023, 1:25 pm | New Zealand First Party
· New Zealand First will put an end to the use of conscience votes in parliament and return democracy to the people. · New Zealand First has always believed that important decisions that change the social fabric of our country forever should not ... More >>
New Zealand First Policy Announcement
Monday, 2 October 2023, 1:09 pm | New Zealand First Party
Seniors and Superannuation: · NZ First will keep the age of National Superannuation entitlement at 65 years and the current 66% of net average wage maintained, and not lowered by shifting the link to inflation. · NZ First will fund rates relief for ... More >>
New Zealand First Backs “Manifesto For Auckland”
Sunday, 1 October 2023, 7:49 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has studied Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s “Manifesto for Auckland” and endorses it as a needed next government immediate priority. Much of what the Mayor’s office is saying is mirrored by Councils all around New Zealand who desperately ... More >>
New Zealand First Policy Announcement: Law And Order
Thursday, 28 September 2023, 1:08 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First believes that keeping society safe should be the priority of law-and-order policies. Every New Zealander deserves to feel safe, secure, and have their person and property respected. That is why New Zealand First continues to fix the flaws ... More >>
Labour’s Dirt Campaign Exposed With Media Help
Thursday, 28 September 2023, 12:44 pm | New Zealand First Party
In last night’s leaders debate Labour Leader Chris Hipkins referred to a quote without giving any explanation of its content, which was about the ‘disease of co-governance’ that is perpetuated by the Māori elite, and he said it was racist. ... More >>
Caution RNZ - Your Bilious Bias Is Showing
Tuesday, 26 September 2023, 12:51 pm | New Zealand First Party
When RNZ first began it was with the intention that there would be an honest and sole broadcaster in which the people of New Zealand could have confidence in what they were hearing was neutral, factual, and professional. Sadly, that worthy reputation ... More >>
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 >>
