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Hospital Dental Care In Dire Straits
Tuesday, 25 January 2005, 2:18 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First health spokesperson Barbara Stewart has described the latest report of a toddler with rotting teeth waiting for up to five months for them to be removed under a general anaesthetic as part of a nationwide dental scandal. More >>
Aid Must Target Poverty Says NZ First
Thursday, 20 January 2005, 10:35 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Foreign Affairs spokesperson Dail Jones is urging the Government to ensure that the Tsunami funds are not extracted from existing foreign aid proposals. More >>
Cheap Labour Imports
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 4:52 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has grave concerns about the pattern of New Zealand workers being pushed out of their jobs to make way for cheap immigrant labour. More >>
Risk Of Disaster From Ruapehu Lake - NZ First
Monday, 17 January 2005, 2:13 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is calling on the Ministers of Internal Affairs and Conservation to explain exactly how they have addressed concerns for human safety and infrastructural risk in the Ruapehu district, because of the dangerously high level of the crater ... More >>
Heads Should Roll At Prison Booze Barn
Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 10:16 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on the Corrections Minister to explain how inmates at a Hawkes Bay prison held a party and got drunk on home brew. More >>
Keep The Accident Helicopters Says NZ First
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 12:36 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on the ACC minister to stop the Accident Compensation Corporation going ahead with short sighted proposals to reduce the number of helicopter services it funds for attending accidents. More >>
NZ First Calls For Release Of Chemical Documents
Monday, 10 January 2005, 3:11 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on the Government to release all official documents relating to the export of Ivor Watkins Dow chemicals that could have been used to manufacture the defoliant agent orange. More >>
New Minister Needs To Probe Probe
Monday, 10 January 2005, 1:44 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is calling for an urgent review of the status and objectives of the much-vaunted schools broadband Probe project. More >>
Agent Orange Denials Exposed By MP – NZ First
Monday, 10 January 2005, 12:14 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says the latest revelations in the agent orange saga show that successive National and Labour governments have kept passing the buck over the shabby treatment of Vietnam veterans. More >>
Ruapehu Lake Intervention Needed More Than Ever
Wednesday, 5 January 2005, 11:04 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has asked the Ministers of Internal Affairs and Conservation to urgently consider adopting interventionist strategies on the Ruapehu crater lake to minimise the risk to surrounding areas. More >>
New Zealand Becoming A Toothless Nation
Thursday, 23 December 2004, 11:11 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First spokesperson for health Barbara Stewart is criticising the Government for not acting sooner to rescue our failing school dental service. More >>
New Zealand Becoming A Toothless Society
Thursday, 23 December 2004, 9:30 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First spokesperson for health Barbara Stewart is criticising the Government for not acting sooner to rescue the appalling state of our school dental service. More >>
Intervene Over Ruapehu Lake - NZ First
Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 4:39 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has asked the Ministers of Internal Affairs and Conservation to urgently consider adopting interventionist strategies on the Ruapehu crater lake to minimise the risk to surrounding areas. More >>
Auckland Regional Transport A Priority
Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 4:11 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First supports the call by Manukau City Mayor Sir Barry Curtis for an urgent meeting of Auckland councils concerning regional transport. More >>
Government Bullied Into Selling Powerco Shares
Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 4:45 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has accused the Government of being bullied into approving the sale of a majority stake in New Plymouth based Powerco to Australian Prime Infrastructure. More >>
NZ No Place For Australian Rejects
Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 4:36 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First associate immigration spokesperson Dail Jones is urging the Government to end the practice of accepting refugees and asylum seekers who are turned away by Australia. More >>
STV Is Not The Problem
Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 4:33 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says that the STV voting system was not the cause of the problems that plagued the local body elections in October. More >>
Funding Increase Small Step In Right Direction
Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 1:57 pm | New Zealand First Party
The granting of $18 million extra to district health boards to help ease immediate funding pressures is a small step in the right direction says New Zealand First health spokesperson for the elderly Barbara Stewart. More >>
A Black Mark On Treaty Negotiations
Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 10:40 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says that the Cabinet reshuffle which has seen Mark Burton take over Treaty negotiations from Margaret Wilson doesn’t bode well for the settlement process. More >>
Same Old Faces, Faded Labels - Peters
Monday, 20 December 2004, 4:44 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters says Helen Clark’s “new” cabinet has a tired and familiar look that reveals the serious talent deficit in Labour’s pre-election cabinet. More >>
