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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 >>
Health Queue Jumping Unacceptable
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 10:33 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is urging the Government to rethink its new Sickness and Invalids Benefit Strategy which would see beneficiaries get priority health treatment in order to get back to work. More >>
Interest Rate Move Unwelcome - Peters
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 10:32 am | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has described the Reserve Bank’s move to lift interest rates today as unnecessary and unwelcome. More >>
Passport Terror Link - We Warned You Says NZ First
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 12:09 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on the Government to review the immigration staffing situation at New Zealand embassies and start checking local citizenship applications over the past few years. More >>
Paltry Sentence For Pervert Says Mark
Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 3:34 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First law and order spokesperson Ron Mark has slammed the sentence given to a man who dealt in child pornography and offered a 7-year-old boy up for sex on the internet. More >>
Taxpayers To Finance Act Primaries
Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 3:33 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has asked the ACT party to explain how much taxpayers will fork out for ACT’s absurd primary election system to select a new leader. More >>
Immigrant Criminals Welcomed By Tribunal
Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 1:39 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called for an urgent review into the Deportations Review Tribunal after discovering that every one of the deportation orders overturned since 2000 involved individuals convicted of serious crimes. More >>
Hikoi Urged To Bus Over Seabed
Monday, 26 April 2004, 5:14 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on the Government to tell Police, Auckland and North Shore authorities to stop the foreshore and seabed hïkoi causing traffic chaos on the Auckland Harbour Bridge. More >>
Hikoi Urged To Bus Over Seabed
Monday, 26 April 2004, 4:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on the Government to tell Police, Auckland and North Shore authorities to stop the foreshore and seabed hïkoi causing traffic chaos on the Auckland Harbour Bridge. More >>
Councils Must Say No To Double Dip Parking Meters
Monday, 26 April 2004, 8:45 am | New Zealand First Party
“Before local bodies introduce parking meters which cancel outstanding time when a motorist leaves the car park, they should examine their ethics,” said New Zealand First transport spokesperson, Peter Brown. More >>
Lest We Forget
Monday, 26 April 2004, 8:41 am | New Zealand First Party
The battlefields of all the World’s wars are being remembered again as New Zealand prepares for Anzac Day this Sunday. More >>
Peter Dunne: The Lapdog's Lament
Monday, 26 April 2004, 8:40 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters has asked United Future leader Peter Dunne “just what price he is willing to pay for his support agreement with Labour after years of being a lapdog”. More >>
Anzac Day, A Time To Honour The Brave
Monday, 26 April 2004, 8:39 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First defence spokesperson and former soldier Ron Mark stressed the importance today of honouring those who have served and continue to serve in the New Zealand Defence Force. More >>
Sydney Express/Maria Luisa Investigation
Friday, 23 April 2004, 4:56 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First deputy leader Peter Brown says he’s extremely disappointed at the outcome of the review of a report into the fatal collision between the Sydney Express and the fishing boat Maria Luisa in Wellington Harbour in December 1996. More >>
