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Party Pills - Common Sense Prevails
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 4:59 pm | New Zealand First Party
Common sense has prevailed with the Cabinet decision to ban BZP and related party pills says New Zealand First health spokesperson Barbara Stewart. More >>
Aid For Sickness Beneficiaries Timely
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 4:03 pm | New Zealand First Party
The announcement of a new fund to give beneficiaries on sickness and invalid’s benefits access to procedures and treatment to help them back to work is well-timed says New Zealand First social services spokesperson, Barbara Stewart. More >>
Criminal Immigrants Take Precedence Over Kiwis
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 2:49 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Associate Immigration spokesperson Peter Brown says the Immigration Minister needs to stop hiding behind impotent immigration laws and start acting on behalf of the victims of crime-committing immigrants. More >>
Godzown Now Owned By Eveyone Else – Peters
Tuesday, 26 June 2007, 3:35 pm | New Zealand First Party
A massive increase in land area sold to foreigners since a law change demonstrates that the restrictions introduced are not working and that Kiwis are continuing to lose control of New Zealand, says New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. More >>
Time To Admit The Emperor Has No Clothes
Monday, 25 June 2007, 2:13 pm | New Zealand First Party
Once touted as being “world leading”, New Zealand’s youth justice system is failing to address our youth crime epidemic and it is time the Government urgently addressed the systems failings, says New Zealand First law and order spokesman Ron ... More >>
Peters Bringing Reserve Bank Act Rewrite to Parlt
Friday, 22 June 2007, 12:25 am | New Zealand First Party
With the New Zealand dollar reaching 22 year highs overnight, crippling our export sector and further eroding our economic potential, the time for hollow rhetoric is over and real action must be taken, says Winston Peters. More >>
Police Congratulated On Recruitment Efforts
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 4:26 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First law and order spokesman has congratulated Police on their recruiting efforts, following today’s announcement that they expect to exceed recruitment targets for the current year by 50 officers. More >>
Decline In Fisheries Apprehensions Concerning
Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 4:37 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has today expressed serious concern that the Ministry of Fisheries is failing to protect our coastline from poaching. More >>
Is The Governor Of The Reserve Bank Racist Too?
Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 2:30 pm | New Zealand First Party
One wonders if the same derisory labels will be applied to the Governor of the Reserve Bank as those often hurled at New Zealand First when we both make the same observation – that immigration is fuelling housing inflation in Auckland and beyond, says New ... More >>
Peters: We The People
Monday, 18 June 2007, 9:29 am | New Zealand First Party
For New Zealand First the human factor in politics is paramount. We can talk about economics. We can talk about policy and politics. We can talk about society in all its many forms. But at the end of the day politics is really about people – human ... More >>
Zaoui Saga Cost $3 Million And Rising
Thursday, 14 June 2007, 5:10 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Deputy Leader Peter Brown says he's appalled that the ongoing Ahmed Zaoui case has so far cost New Zealanders almost $3 million with no end in sight to the four year old saga. More >>
Review Security Contract Says NZ First
Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 4:43 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on the Defence Minister to intervene in a contract for the provision of security guard services at the Defence Force’s Headquarters of Joint Forces. More >>
Ambulance Service Under Stress
Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 9:23 am | New Zealand First Party
In common with many other areas of the public health system the ambulance service is struggling to perform under the weight of the demands made on it, says New Zealand First health spokesperson, Barbara Stewart. More >>
Government Committing Educational Infanticide
Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 2:21 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Labour government is killing its progeny with its dictates on what foods schools can offer its students, says New Zealand First education spokesperson Brian Donnelly. More >>
Innovative Approach Required For Lamb Prices
Monday, 11 June 2007, 4:53 pm | New Zealand First Party
The anger being shown by European farmers over the low price of lamb highlights the need for greater co-operation and innovation by New Zealand’s meat industry says New Zealand First Primary Production spokesman Doug Woolerton. More >>
Majority Of HIV Migrants Still Awol
Monday, 11 June 2007, 2:22 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Immigration service is yet to find 40 Zimbabwean nationals who are now overstaying after not having applied for residence during a special HIV/AIDS residency amnesty period, says New Zealand First associate immigration spokesperson Peter Brown. More >>
Better Youth Mental Health Services Needed
Monday, 11 June 2007, 2:09 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First mental health spokesperson Ron Mark says he's concerned about the lack of mental health facilities on offer for youth at risk of committing violent or sexual crime. More >>
Innovative Approach Required to Overcome Low Lamb
Monday, 11 June 2007, 1:54 pm | New Zealand First Party
The anger being shown by European farmers over the low price of lamb highlights the need for greater co-operation and innovation by New Zealand’s meat industry says New Zealand First Primary Production spokesman Doug Woolerton. More >>
More Health Strikes Threatened
Monday, 11 June 2007, 1:20 pm | New Zealand First Party
The announcement that senior doctors would be holding unprecedented stopwork meetings next month means that strike action has now been either taken or threatened by almost everyone in the health system from cleaners to senior doctors, says New Zealand First ... More >>
Export Facilitator For Northland
Friday, 8 June 2007, 3:52 pm | New Zealand First Party
Northland businesses will soon have a helping hand to develop their ability and capacity to export with the appointment of a specialist Export Facilitator, says New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters. More >>
