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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 >>
Immigration Policy Sparks Terrorism Fears
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 11:03 am | New Zealand First Party
Security fears about suspected terrorists in New Zealand have been caused by Labour’s stupid immigration policies and lack of border security, said New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
Open Justice Is Fair Says NZ First
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 10:24 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First supports the recommendation of the Law Commission that accredited news media representatives should be permitted to attend Family Court proceedings. More >>
Proposed Court System Wrong Says Jones
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 10:22 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First believes that taking away an individual’s right to have a trial by jury is unjust and goes against people’s fundamental right to a fair trial. More >>
Proposed Court System Wrong Says Jones
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 5:39 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First believes that taking away an individual’s right to have a trial by jury is unjust and goes against people’s fundamental right to a fair trial. More >>
Behaviour In The House Of Representatives
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 3:34 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First MP Dail Jones has called on Helen Clark and Don Brash to refrain from slanging matches and concentrate on the problems facing the country. More >>
Invest In Youth - Budget 2004
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 10:59 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First youth affairs spokesperson Craig McNair has called on the Government to increase the youth affairs funding in the upcoming budget. More >>
Smoke Alarms
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 8:34 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First spokesperson for internal affairs Brent Catchpole MP said today “It is difficult to express the real sorrow we all feel for the families who suffer the loss of a child in a fire. I am very concerned about the number of tragic deaths ... More >>
One Law For All Says Mark
Monday, 15 March 2004, 2:50 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First law and order spokesperson Ron Mark is outraged at the Government for even considering a system where affluent people pay more for traffic offences than poor people. More >>
NZ First Calls For Action Over Child Abuse
Thursday, 11 March 2004, 4:42 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The dangerously high levels of reported and undiagnosed child abuse and neglect is an outrageous and shameful state of affairs,” said Bill Gudgeon, New Zealand First social services spokesperson. More >>
NZ First Supports Overdue Currency Move
Thursday, 11 March 2004, 11:37 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters has welcomed the Government’s positive response to the Reserve Bank’s request for more power to intervene to influence the value of the New Zealand dollar. More >>
Interest Rates Still Too High - Peters
Thursday, 11 March 2004, 11:35 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says interest rates are still too high and should be brought down to reduce the value of the dollar and increase returns to exporters. More >>
Struggling Maori Need Opportunities - Not Slogans
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 2:55 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says that despite policies designed to close the gaps and reduce inequalities, Maori are still languishing at the bottom of the heap. More >>
Action, Not Talk To Drop Dollar - Peters
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 11:01 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on Finance Minister Michael Cullen to stop talking and take action to drop the value of the high Kiwi dollar because it is strangling the economy. More >>
