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Migrant Medical Screening Still Not Tough Enough
Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 2:17 pm | New Zealand First Party
The announcement of tougher medical screening in January this year was welcome but the new programme has not gone far enough, fast enough, said New Zealand First’s health spokesperson Barbara Stewart. More >>
Police Cell No Place For Teen
Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 2:15 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is calling on the Government to explain why a teenage boy has been left in a police cell for nine days while waiting for a bed with Child, Youth and Family. More >>
Papakura Speech By Rt Hon Winston Peters
Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 12:44 am | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters will be speaking at a public meeting on Friday 14 May 2004 at the Senior Citizen’s Hall, 7 East St, Papakura at 12.30pm. More >>
Our Elderly: How Do We Treat Them?
Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 12:43 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Deputy Leader, Peter Brown says he is concerned to learn how badly some elderly people are being treated in rest homes and also while receiving home care. He said that a number of “quite distressing” cases in the Waikato region had ... More >>
Nuclear Deception And Learning On The Job
Tuesday, 11 May 2004, 3:26 pm | New Zealand First Party
President Bush and his embattled Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have enough problems right now without having Don Brash in Washington without the guiding hand of a responsible adult, says New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. More >>
National's Unusual Defence And Foreign Policies
Monday, 10 May 2004, 1:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has urged Don Brash and Simon Power to stop thinking out loud about defence and foreign policies. More >>
National Naive Over Nukes
Friday, 7 May 2004, 4:14 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters is calling on Don Brash to rethink his naïve nuclear policy and to do his homework before advocating a radical stance on this very serious issue. More >>
Toothless Generation
Friday, 7 May 2004, 3:14 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First health spokesperson Barbara Stewart is calling for an urgent national strategy to be put in place to address New Zealand’s appalling dental health statistics before we raise a generation of toothless children. More >>
Anti Smacking Campaign Cop Out
Friday, 7 May 2004, 2:34 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Government’s anti-smacking education campaign has been described as a cop out by New Zealand First’s education spokesman Hon Brian Donnelly. More >>
Canterbury DHB Puts Dollars Before Sense
Thursday, 6 May 2004, 2:54 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The Canterbury District Health Board must have a strange set of priorities if cutting psychiatric registrars’ pay is considered to be a good way to save money,” said New Zealand First health spokesperson Barbara Stewart. More >>
Home Detention For Child Pornster?
Thursday, 6 May 2004, 2:10 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First law and order spokesperson Ron Mark says he is outraged that home detention has been granted to a man convicted of trading in child pornography. More >>
Search And Rescue Decisions Needed
Tuesday, 4 May 2004, 4:42 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Ministers of Police and Conservation need to act to reduce the number of search and rescue call outs, said New Zealand First conservation spokesperson, Edwin Perry. More >>
A Lion's Den For Female Prison Officers
Tuesday, 4 May 2004, 4:19 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First corrections spokesperson Ron Mark has called for a review of the Government policy of employing female prison officers in male prisons. More >>
Jones Explains No-Confidence Motions To Brash
Tuesday, 4 May 2004, 2:17 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The Government has no need to question its support during the Budget process given that National voted twice with Labour during the last confidence vote on 17 February this year,” said New Zealand First Junior Whip MP Dail Jones. More >>
Deportation Tribunal’s Days Numbered Says Jones
Monday, 3 May 2004, 2:14 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says the days of the Deportation Review Tribunal are numbered as a result of the absurd decisions it consistently makes in favour of migrant offenders. More >>
Maria Luisa: Justice Denied – Family Despondent
Monday, 3 May 2004, 10:03 am | New Zealand First Party
“Justice for the family of the five men who died on the Maria Luisa when the Sydney Express collided into her seems to be non-existent,” said New Zealand First deputy leader, Peter Brown. More >>
Students Caught In Debt Trap
Monday, 3 May 2004, 10:03 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First education spokesperson Brian Donnelly is calling for the Government to urgently change the student loan scheme because it is sentencing young people to a lifetime of debt. More >>
Maori Treaty Rights Spread Across The Seas
Friday, 30 April 2004, 10:13 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has accused the Government of spreading Maori Treaty settlement rights to fish caught by New Zealand companies outside this country’s exclusive economic zone as a result of new fisheries legislation (Fisheries Amendment Bill No 3). More >>
Substance Abuse Treatment Services Inadequate
Friday, 30 April 2004, 9:35 am | New Zealand First Party
“The national shortage of treatment services for those with drug and alcohol problems appears to be reaching crisis level,” said New Zealand First health spokesperson, Barbara Stewart. More >>
Maori Treaty Rights Spread Across The Seas
Friday, 30 April 2004, 9:33 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has accused the Government of spreading Maori Treaty settlement rights to fish caught by New Zealand companies outside this country’s exclusive economic zone as a result of new fisheries legislation (Fisheries Amendment Bill No 3). More >>
