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Domestic Violence Investigation Scheme Applauded
Wednesday, 11 August 2004, 2:03 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First social services spokesperson Bill Gudgeon has praised the new domestic violence investigation system initiated by the Wairarapa police. More >>
Action On Housing Urgent Says NZ First
Tuesday, 10 August 2004, 5:28 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is strongly supporting the Public Health Association’s calls today for an urgent and immediate need for action on housing because many people are living in crowded and substandard conditions. More >>
Spare A Thought For The Ratepayers
Tuesday, 10 August 2004, 2:15 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is urging local councils to take ratepayers’ views into account when making decisions on the projects they will fund. Ratepayers need to be fully informed of councils’ cost-benefit analysis for each project. More >>
Govt. Must Come To Party With Primary Teachers
Monday, 9 August 2004, 5:19 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Government is playing a perilous game with the education of our young people in its current negotiations with primary teachers, claims New Zealand First education spokesperson Brian Donnelly. More >>
Peters Gives Foreshore Assurance
Monday, 9 August 2004, 1:26 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has given an assurance that the interests of Auckland City Council, America's Cup Village, Ports of Auckland and other groups with similar concerns will be protected by the final foreshore and seabed legislation. More >>
Shonky Property Developers Targeted
Monday, 9 August 2004, 9:56 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has signaled its intention to put the heat on shonky property developers. More >>
Building Industry Needs Skilled Workers
Friday, 6 August 2004, 3:12 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First housing spokesperson Brent Catchpole says it’s time to ensure the survival of the building industry by training New Zealanders to work in it. More >>
Nursing Situation Critical
Friday, 6 August 2004, 2:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
An international study showing that 23 per cent of New Zealand nurses are trained elsewhere should be of grave concern to the Minister of Health, said New Zealand First’s health spokesperson Barbara Stewart. More >>
Greens Prevent Debate On GM
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 2:04 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First junior whip Dail Jones has accused the Greens of playing politics over genetic modification by stalling their own Private Members Bill relating to the Moratorium on Genetically Modified Organisms. More >>
Easter Trading Revived With NZ First Bill
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 1:17 pm | New Zealand First Party
The issue of Easter Sunday trading has been revived with New Zealand First MP Doug Woolerton’s private members bill drawn from the ballot today. More >>
Fishing Jobs Poached From Kiwis
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 10:54 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has criticised the Nelson-based Sealord Fishing Company for electing to hire 20 Filipino workers to work on its trawlers. More >>
Cancer Patients Facing Treatment Crisis
Wednesday, 4 August 2004, 3:59 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand is facing a cancer treatment crisis and thousands of patients will die needlessly over the next few years because early detection and treatment cannot be guaranteed, according to Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
Lift Drinking Age Now Says NZ First
Wednesday, 4 August 2004, 11:59 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First youth affairs spokesperson Craig McNair says the Government can no longer ignore the effects the lowered drinking age is having on teen drinking and it should raise it urgently. More >>
Winston Peters:The Sounds Of Silence in Parliament
Monday, 2 August 2004, 1:39 pm | New Zealand First Party
1.30pm on Monday, 2 August 2004 Public Address by the Rt Hon Winston Peters Milford Baptist Church, 1 Dodson Ave, Milford, Northshore More >>
Congratulations Auckland University
Friday, 30 July 2004, 2:28 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says that amalgamation of the Auckland College of Education with Auckland University can only further enhance the reputation of the university as an international teaching and research institution. More >>
Want Attention? Light Fires
Friday, 30 July 2004, 11:46 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Education spokesperson Brian Donnelly has today described flag burner Paul Hopkinson as an attention-seeking idiot who should not appear in front of a classroom again. More >>
Food Poisoning: A Case For New Zealand Shipping
Friday, 30 July 2004, 11:01 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First transport spokesperson Peter Brown has called for the expansion of our merchant fleet now is has been determined that the likely source of the cornflour contamination has come from the hold of the foreign ship which brought the commodity ... More >>
Put Them In The Army
Friday, 30 July 2004, 12:12 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First spokesperson for law & order Ron Mark is pleased that the Government is inviting solutions designed to prevent young men entering into a life of crime. More >>
What Is Causing The Depression?
Thursday, 29 July 2004, 4:04 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First social services spokesperson Bill Gudgeon is urging the Government to find out why the country is full of stressed out and depressed people. More >>
Interest Rates Too High Says Peters
Thursday, 29 July 2004, 2:07 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters says the Reserve Bank is going to strangle the economy by continually raising interest rates. More >>
