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So Where's The Integrity? Asks Peters
Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 5:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is calling on all councils to reappraise their voting systems to help restore voters’ faith in the democratic process at local level. More >>
Health Minister Failing BOP Patients
Friday, 8 October 2004, 1:47 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters says the Health Minister has failed to ensure that the Bay of Plenty region is receiving adequate health care funding to cater for its ageing population. More >>
Split Voting Needs More Transparency
Friday, 8 October 2004, 11:56 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First deputy leader Peter Brown is calling for more transparency with regard to split voting on bills introduced to Parliament. More >>
Health Minister Needs To Get Real
Thursday, 7 October 2004, 4:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters is urging the Health Minister to address the ever-growing hospital waiting times in the Bay of Plenty region by concentrating on patients and not bureaucrats. More >>
Not Even An Apology?
Thursday, 7 October 2004, 8:31 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Veterans’ Affairs spokesperson Bill Gudgeon says he’s bitterly disappointed that the Government is refusing to acknowledge the extent of harm caused to Vietnam Veterans by exposure to Agent Orange. More >>
Inadequate Inquiry Into Piper Chieftain Crash
Thursday, 7 October 2004, 8:30 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First civil defence spokesperson Ron Mark is concerned that fire crash crews involved in the search for the downed Air Adventures plane last year are being used as scapegoats for inadequate air traffic control systems. More >>
Government Yellow On Agent Orange
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 9:40 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is calling on the Government to compensate Vietnam War veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange, and their families, as has been done by other nations whose servicemen were similarly affected. More >>
Agent Orange - New Zealand First Minority Report
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 9:37 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First recommends that an apology be issued to all Vietnam war veterans for the failure of successive governments to acknowledge sooner that they were indeed subjected to Agent Orange and other defoliant aerial spraying. The fact that there ... More >>
Stop Powerco Sale Minister – Says NZ First
Tuesday, 5 October 2004, 8:44 am | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters says the Minister of Finance has no choice but to block the sale of a majority shareholding in New Plymouth based Powerco to Prime Infrastructure Australia. More >>
Peters Issues Brash A Challenge
Friday, 1 October 2004, 2:05 pm | New Zealand First Party
Peters Issues Brash A Challenge To Debate Him On His Treaty Policy More >>
Giving Up Already?
Friday, 1 October 2004, 2:04 pm | New Zealand First Party
“Don Brash has effectively conceded the 2005 election if he seriously thinks this government cannot be challenged on its economic management, said the Rt Hon Winston Peters More >>
Look After Those Who Look After Our Soldiers
Thursday, 30 September 2004, 3:52 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First spokesperson on defence Ron Mark today slammed the 2.5% pay offer to Army civilian support staff as derisory and totally inadequate. His comments come as NUPE staff at the Burnham Military Camp, Christchurch, are staging a stoppage ... More >>
Discrepancy Between ERO Report And Registrations
Thursday, 30 September 2004, 11:48 am | New Zealand First Party
ERO’s report on the quality of year two beginning teachers raises serious questions about the teacher registration process, according to New Zealand First education spokesperson Brian Donnelly. More >>
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 >>
