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PHOS Top Heavy
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 4:58 pm | New Zealand First Party
The PHO management fee funding increase announced by the Ministry of Health this week is yet another example of money going to pay the fat-cat bureaucrats rather than provide health care for patients, says New Zealand First health spokesperson ... More >>
Families Commission Neutered By Government
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 1:54 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has repeated its opposition to the politically correct Families Commission as proposed by the Government. More >>
Labour Fears Direct Democracy
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 11:49 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says Helen Clark has insulted the intelligence of New Zealanders by suggesting that they cannot be trusted with binding Citizens Initiated Referenda. More >>
Another Immigration Scam In Paradise
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 4:49 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has accused the Immigration Minister of allowing a jobs for residency scam to operate under her nose at the Immigration Service in New Zealand. More >>
How Many More Young Lives Must Be Lost?
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 4:37 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The headline is hard to miss ‘15-year-old killed running a drug house’ yet it seems that this Government is continually missing the point when it comes to New Zealand’s horrendous youth drug and crime statistics,” said youth affairs Spokesperson Craig ... More >>
NZ First Questions Value Of TPK
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 4:35 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has questioned the value of the work carried out by Te Puni Kokiri and the quality of advice it gives the Minister of Maori Affairs. More >>
Peters Pledges Coalition With The People
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 1:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has pledged to “enter a coalition with the people” by introducing binding Citizens Initiated Referenda and reducing the number of MPs to 99. More >>
Replacing Political Tyranny With Direct Democracy
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 1:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
We are here today to debunk an old political myth in New Zealand and to explain how we are going to replace this myth with a new reality. The myth we refer to is that we live in a true democracy. More >>
Government Must Fix CYFS
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 1:23 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The review of the deaths of Saliel Aplin and Olympia Jetson is yet another devastating commentary on the ineptitude of CYFS,” said New Zealand First family affairs spokesperson Barbara Stewart. More >>
Government Hushes Up Algerian Case
Tuesday, 11 November 2003, 4:25 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has accused the Government of hushing up a suspected terrorist case involving the arrival of an individual from Algeria in September this year. More >>
Media Reminder - NZ First Policy Announcement
Tuesday, 11 November 2003, 3:39 pm | New Zealand First Party
A reminder that Rt Hon Winston Peters will be making a major policy announcement tomorrow (Wednesday) 12 November at noon at Loaves and Fishes, Molesworth Street, Wellington. More >>
Pay Attention Health Minister
Tuesday, 11 November 2003, 2:43 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First health spokesperson Pita Paraone is calling on the Minister of Health to take off her urban blinkers and take heed of the dire health and safety crisis that Dunstan Hospital is facing. More >>
A Fair Go For Workers And Business
Tuesday, 11 November 2003, 2:38 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First will vote in favour of granting employees four weeks annual leave from 2005 but wants the Government to give businesses a tax break to help pay for it. More >>
OIC Review Meaningless Says Peters
Monday, 10 November 2003, 9:56 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has described the Government’s announcement on reviewing land sales to overseas interests as “superficial and meaningless”. More >>
Anderton Joins The Ruling Classes
Friday, 7 November 2003, 4:11 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The Progressive Party Leader has today confirmed that he has completed his metamorphosis and is now a fully fledged member of the ruling classes,” said New Zealand First Maori Affairs spokesperson Bill Gudgeon. More >>
Transit Plays Confidence Trick On Tauranga
Friday, 7 November 2003, 2:42 pm | New Zealand First Party
Tauranga’s MP and New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters has dismissed Transit’s designation of the arterial roads around the proposed duplicate harbour bridge as ‘state highway’ as meaningless and little more than a confidence trick. More >>
Accessibility Of Cannabis Distressing
Thursday, 6 November 2003, 3:29 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is renewing calls for an apolitical and cooperative approach to dealing with young people and drug abuse in light of the arrest of a 14-year-old Rotorua schoolgirl during a tinny house raid. More >>
Risks For Mothers And Babies Totally Unacceptable
Thursday, 6 November 2003, 2:17 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is deeply concerned at revelations today that there are only 20 GPs left delivering babies in New Zealand and that there has been an increase in the number of pregnant women and new mothers admitted to hospital with both pregnancy ... More >>
Hospice Funding Welcome
Thursday, 6 November 2003, 11:56 am | New Zealand First Party
Tauranga MP and New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters has welcomed the Bay of Plenty District Health Board’s decision to provide ongoing funding so desperately needed for the Waipuna Hospice. More >>
Stop Ridiculous Exporters Tax
Thursday, 6 November 2003, 11:55 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is calling on the Government to drop plans to impose user charges on exporters, importers and transport operators. More >>