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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 >>
DOC’s Priorities Need Scrutinising
Monday, 8 December 2003, 4:36 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First conservation spokesperson, Edwin Perry, is calling on the Department of Conservation to re-examine its priorities following publication of the third annual report on progress on New Zealand’s Biodiversity. More >>
Operations For All
Friday, 5 December 2003, 12:08 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is urging the Labour government to drop its bizarre scheme that would see beneficiaries receive state funded private hospital treatment whilst the rest of the country queue up at under resourced public hospitals. More >>
Stat Dispensing Encourages Pill-Popping
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 6:21 pm | New Zealand First Party
Figures released by Pharmac showing that New Zealanders are taking more medicine than ever before are a cause for concern, says New Zealand First’s spokesperson on health, Pita Paraone. More >>
New Zealand First: Yes To Holidays Bill
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 6:20 pm | New Zealand First Party
“We had extensive discussion in caucus and decided that New Zealanders are entitled to fair and reasonable holiday entitlements, said Deputy Leader, Peter Brown. More >>
Minister Mocks Democratic Process
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 6:17 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is calling on Health Minister Annette King to deny that the formation of a joint agency with Australia to regulate therapeutic medicines, before the completion of the select committee inquiry, is undemocratic. More >>
Education Minister Fails Needs Of The Northshore
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 6:17 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The minority Labour Government is being totally irresponsible by not making immediate provision for a Senior High School in Albany to cater for year 10 to year 13 students,” said Dail Jones. More >>
Labour’s Immigration Talkback Campaign
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 4:31 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has released details of a radio talkback and letter writing propaganda campaign about immigration launched by the Labour Party today. More >>
