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Powerco Deal Stinks Says Peters
Thursday, 30 September 2004, 10:30 am | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has renewed his attack on Prime Infrastructure’s deal with the New Plymouth District Council and Taranaki Electricity Trust to buy their majority shareholding in the energy company Powerco. More >>
Waitaki Board Way To Go
Thursday, 30 September 2004, 10:29 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says that it is pleasing that members of the Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Board were named today. More >>
New Zealand First Announces New Treaty Policy
Wednesday, 29 September 2004, 4:45 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First today announced a new Treaty of Waitangi policy aimed at ending the grievance industry but safeguarding genuine claims. More >>
Ordinary Kiwis Not Benefitting From Bogus Boom
Friday, 24 September 2004, 11:48 am | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters says New Zealand’s balance of payments is plunging deeply in deficit and that the hollowing out of the economic base has proceeded unchecked as productive assets have continued to pass into foreign hands. More >>
Get On Board Waitaki
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 2:13 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says that it is pleasing that water allocation for the Waitaki River catchment will finally be advanced. More >>
Overseas Banks Need Stricter Controls
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 1:19 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters is questioning why it took the Minister of Finance, Treasury and the Inland Revenue Department so long to address a loophole that has allowed banks to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of tax. More >>
Peters: "Treaty casts gloom over New Zealand”
Tuesday, 21 September 2004, 2:19 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters Address to Napier GreyPower & Districts Heavey Hall, 92 Wycliff Street, Onekawa at 1.45pm, 21 September 2004 More >>
Chaotic Taxi Industry Needs More Regulation
Monday, 20 September 2004, 4:41 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters is supporting calls from the New Zealand Taxi Federation for more controls on the taxi industry. More >>
Chaotic Taxi Industry Needs More Regulation
Monday, 20 September 2004, 4:39 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters is supporting calls from the New Zealand Taxi Federation for more controls on the taxi industry. More >>
Peters Responds To Police File Contents
Friday, 17 September 2004, 5:08 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters says the police file on the Edwards incident in Morningside in September 2002 raises serious questions about the way the case was handled. More >>
United Future Backflips On Seabed Bill
Friday, 17 September 2004, 11:54 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First MP Dail Jones says ports companies and recreational users of the foreshore and seabed will be bitterly disappointed by the actions of the United Future Party in failing to make a contribution to the select committee process on the Foreshore ... More >>
Police Explanation Unsatisfactory Says Peters
Thursday, 16 September 2004, 5:08 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters says the Police statement about the incident involving Phillip Layton Edwards in Morningside in September 2002 simply raises more questions about the case. More >>
Fix Flakey Firearms Laws
Thursday, 16 September 2004, 5:05 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First law and order spokesman Ron Mark has expressed his outrage at the decision of a judge to impose a sentence of 350 hours community work on an offender who was found to be carrying a stolen semi automatic military-style firearm. More >>
Kiwi Troops Redundant In Iraq
Thursday, 16 September 2004, 11:29 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First defence spokesperson Ron Mark says he understands the Government’s decision to bring New Zealand troops home from Iraq. More >>
Super Savings Essential Says Peters
Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 5:06 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Winston Peters says the latest proposal from the Government to set up a limited central superannuation savings scheme is a small step in the right direction but it does not go nearly far enough. More >>
Maori Must Move On Meningitis Vaccinations
Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 2:18 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is calling on Maori health providers to spread the word about the Meningococcal B immunisation programme. More >>
RMA - Balancing Progress With Protection
Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 10:10 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has released a new policy “clarifying and streamlining” the Resource Management Act and deleting a clause relating to the “principles” of the Treaty of Waitangi. More >>
Peters Speech: Building A Road To Somewhere
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 10:57 am | New Zealand First Party
As each wave of migration – be they the earliest Polynesian navigators or more recent voyagers from Europe and elsewhere – came to New Zealand, they saw a land of opportunity and potential. More >>
Media Advisory: Greypower Meeting In Napier
Monday, 13 September 2004, 5:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters will be addressing a GreyPower meeting in Napier on Tuesday 21 September 2004 at 1:45pm. More >>
Mad Management Will Wreck Fisheries
Monday, 13 September 2004, 2:31 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says the Mininstry of Fisheries decision to reduce front line fisheries staff is a classic case of managers being totally out of touch with the reality of enforcement and sends a message to poachers that the coast is clear. More >>