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New Zealand First Sharpens Attack
Tuesday, 30 December 2003, 10:53 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First will begin the New Year with a sharpened focus following a reshuffle of caucus responsibilities. More >>
Self Righteous, Self Serving, Peter Who?
Tuesday, 23 December 2003, 12:13 am | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has laughed off Peter Dunne’s worst–behaved MPs list, describing it as an attention seeking device from the most ineffective and boring politician in Parliament. More >>
DoC Acquires More Land
Friday, 19 December 2003, 2:49 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The announcement that DoC is taking over management of Molesworth Station in Marlborough cannot be greeted with enthusiasm by the taxpayer, said New Zealand First’s conservation spokesman, Edwin Perry. More >>
Ratepayers Will Pay For Foreshore & Seabed Policy
Thursday, 18 December 2003, 2:41 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says ratepayers will be alarmed at the government passing its seabed and foreshore proposals on to local government to administer without compensation. More >>
Foreshore And Seabed Policy – Mindless Mess
Wednesday, 17 December 2003, 12:07 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters described the foreshore and seabed policy announced today as “a mindless bureaucratic mess that appears to have learnt nothing from recent history”. More >>
Pest Control Savings Irresponsible
Tuesday, 16 December 2003, 1:58 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First conservation spokesperson Edwin Perry has called on the Department of Conservation to urgently review its priorities. More >>
One Good Thing About Transport Package
Friday, 12 December 2003, 1:22 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has welcomed the belated awakening by the Government to the fact that New Zealand has a major transport infrastructure problem but slates the solution and the delay. More >>
Peters Calls For 'No Toll' Bridge Solution
Friday, 12 December 2003, 9:40 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First leader and Tauranga M.P Winston Peters is urging Transit to come up with a ‘no toll’ solution for Tauranga’s duplicate harbour bridge proposal. More >>
Sex Education A Matter Of Urgency
Thursday, 11 December 2003, 2:23 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is repeating its call for immediate Government action following predictions from New Zealand and British specialists that today’s Western teenagers could become the fattest, sickest and least fertile in history. More >>
King Puts Australia First
Thursday, 11 December 2003, 1:38 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is saddened but not surprised that the Minister of Health is more concerned about cosying up to the Australians than paying heed to democratic processes at home. More >>
P Is Not The Only Thing To Blame
Thursday, 11 December 2003, 1:36 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First law and order spokesperson Ron Mark is calling on the Government to step up the fight against ‘P’ and toughen sentences for convicted drug dealers. More >>
Fast Tracking The Fast Track Bill
Thursday, 11 December 2003, 1:20 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is appalled at the minority Labour Government’s obvious intention to fast track the select committee hearings on Project Aqua. More >>
Teen Health Needs Urgent Attention
Wednesday, 10 December 2003, 5:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First youth affairs spokesperson Craig McNair is calling on the Government to immediately implement a comprehensive health plan aimed at teenagers. More >>
Bonuses For Numbers Of Foreign Fee-Paying Students
Wednesday, 10 December 2003, 5:23 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has questioned the ethics of secondary principals being paid ‘bonuses’ based on the number of foreign fee-paying students attending their schools More >>
Taxpayers Funding Foreigners’ Children
Wednesday, 10 December 2003, 5:21 pm | New Zealand First Party
“It is the policy of this government to fully fund the early childhood education of children of non-resident, foreign parents,’ claims New Zealand First education spokesperson, Brian Donnelly. More >>
Police/Traffic Merger To Be Reviewed
Wednesday, 10 December 2003, 12:37 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has set up a special caucus committee to review the Police/Traffic merger implemented by the National Government in 1992. More >>
An unhealthy disrespect for democracy
Tuesday, 9 December 2003, 5:43 pm | New Zealand First Party
Green MP Sue Kedgley is appalled that the Health Minister has refused to listen to the unanimous verdict of the health select committee and keep control of New Zealand's dietary supplement industry on this side of the Tasman. More >>
NZ Healthcare Handed To Aussies
Tuesday, 9 December 2003, 5:39 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has warned the Health Minister Annette King not to hand the healthcare of New Zealanders over to Australia by signing a treaty to set up a joint drugs regulation agency tomorrow. More >>
Cervical Screening - Still More Work To Be Done
Tuesday, 9 December 2003, 5:38 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First women’s affairs spokesperson Barbara Stewart says there is still a lot of work to be done in the National Cervical Screening Programme to meet the requirements of the Auditor General’s report. More >>
Deceit And Hypocrisy Over Marine Issues
Tuesday, 9 December 2003, 5:37 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has accused the Government of embarking on a programme of deception over crucial issues involving Maori such as ownership of the foreshore and seabed, allocation of fisheries resources and marine farming. More >>
