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Media Playing Politics Over Nick Smith Case
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 2:15 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters said today he regretted the way the media choose to handle his comments about the Nick Smith case. More >>
The Treaty &Trickery of Waitangi & Constitution
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 12:33 am | New Zealand First Party
One of the most important electoral and constitutional changes in recent years in New Zealand was the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional representation. More >>
Youth Anti-Depressant Use Avoidable
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 12:10 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is calling on the Government to increase mental health services for children and young persons in the up-coming budget to avoid the over-prescribing of anti-depressant drugs. More >>
Money Down The Gurgler
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 5:12 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is questioning the decision by the Gisborne District Council to allow a further 27 pokie machines into the area. More >>
Peters Questions "Bizarre" Acc Rehab Plan
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 2:50 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has asked the ACC Minister Ruth Dyson to explain why some Waikato accident victims are being forced to go through a bizarre ACC vocational rehabilitation plan or lose their payments. More >>
Minister Lets Health System Lapse Into Chaos
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 2:48 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand first is again calling on the Government to fix the ailing health system following yet another damning report into the state of public hospitals. More >>
EIT Boss Should First Get His Story Sorted Out
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 10:16 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First’s education spokesperson, Brian Donnelly, has suggested that Bruce Martin, CEO of the Eastern Institute of Technology, needs to explain inconsistencies in his own statements before he criticizes MPs. More >>
Catchpole Calls For Healthy Houses
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 12:04 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First MP Brent Catchpole is calling on the Housing Minister to do something about the overcrowding and poor housing contributing to the disturbing explosion of TB outbreaks in the Auckland region. More >>
Brash Running Scared Says Peters
Tuesday, 23 March 2004, 4:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has accused Don Brash of being too scared to face him in a television debate. More >>
Tb Getting Out Of Control
Tuesday, 23 March 2004, 4:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is calling on the Government to implement the immigrant health check policy immediately instead of phasing it in over a year, after the release of the latest TB figures for 2003 from Auckland. More >>
Peters Challenges Brash To Tv Debate
Tuesday, 23 March 2004, 11:05 am | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has offered to appear on TVNZ’s Holmes show with National leader Don Brash tonight to debate the major political issues facing New Zealand. More >>
Sex Education Urgently Needed
Monday, 22 March 2004, 3:17 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is calling on the Government to act immediately and run a public sex education campaign aimed at teenagers to try and stem the alarmingly fast growing rates of sexually transmitted diseases in this age group. More >>
Stop Coastline Plunder Says Nz First
Monday, 22 March 2004, 10:42 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Maori Affairs spokesperson Pita Paraone has called for a complete overhaul of laws relating to customary Maori fishing rights and the monitoring of them. More >>
Save Westhaven Marina Says Jones
Friday, 19 March 2004, 1:41 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The Labour Government has failed Auckland miserably in its refusal to take any action to preserve Westhaven Marina for future generations of Auckland, said Dail Jones New Zealand First List MP. More >>
Peters Tells Nats To Think Of NZ
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 10:55 am | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has urged Don Brash to take a deep breath and start thinking seriously about extricating National from its impossible position over Treaty of Waitangi issues and the foreshore and seabed. More >>
Fingerprints On The Treaty, Footprints In The Sand
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 10:48 am | New Zealand First Party
An address by Rt Hon Winston Peters New Zealand Medical Association Auckland Division Building 43 Marion Davis Library, Auckland Hospital Wednesday, 17 March 2004 at 7.00pm More >>
Is Westhaven Marina Sale Illegal?
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 5:56 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is appalled by the state of affairs, which is developing on the Auckland waterfront with the proposal of Ports of Auckland to seek foreign buyers for Westhaven marina. More >>
Reserve Bank – Same Direction
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 5:55 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First MP Craig McNair today questioned the Governor of the Reserve Bank during a hearing of evidence of his Budget Policy Statement to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee. More >>
Elderly Hit Again In Sick Health System
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 2:42 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is demanding the Government give greater priority to health in the upcoming budget after 300 patients with eye conditions were chopped from waiting lists in the Nelson area and told they no longer qualify for treatment in the public ... More >>
MSD's Computer System "Complex and Fragile"
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 2:07 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First wants the Government to explain why “departmental politics, a dysfunctional management structure and a horrifying potential cost” are behind the Ministry of Social Development’s inability to sort out its computer systems. More >>
