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New Zealanders The Victims Of PM's "Success"
Friday, 19 September 2003, 3:09 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on the Prime Minister to re-prioritise the work of her Government by attending to the real problems confronting real New Zealanders. More >>
Child Abuse Rates Outrageous
Friday, 19 September 2003, 2:25 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is shocked, but not surprised, that New Zealand has one of the highest rates of child abuse in the OECD countries. More >>
Immigrant Holidays At Taxpayers’ Expense
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 4:01 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has asked the Government to explain why a Thai couple are getting a holiday to Thailand and free adult education as beneficiaries of New Zealand taxpayers. More >>
Greens Reject Maori Policy On Supreme Court Bill
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 2:06 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Greens have turned their back on their own Maori policy in supporting Labour over the abolition of appeals to the Privy Council, said Dail Jones, justice spokesperson for New Zealand First. More >>
Taxpayers Fund Foreign Children's Early Child Ed
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 9:43 am | New Zealand First Party
“Revelations that it is government policy to fully fund foreign children for early childhood education are flabbergasting,” says New Zealand First education spokesperson, Brian Donnelly. More >>
Police File Pulled - Please Explain
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 8:13 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters is seeking an assurance that a police file taken from Lower Hutt to Wellington last night was not used for political purposes. More >>
Home Detention A Joke
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 8:12 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has accused the Government of creating a Corrections system that appears to allow any offender, regardless of their crime, to get home detention. More >>
Tighter Restrictions On Young Foreign Children
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 3:31 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First MP Dail Jones is putting a Private Members Bill forward for the next ballot calling for tighter restrictions on foreign children paying for primary level education. More >>
Maori Won’t Be Privy To Anything
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 3:29 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Maori Affairs spokesperson Bill Gudgeon says it is not in the interest of Maori to axe links with the Privy Council and set up a local Supreme Court. More >>
Supreme Court Still Flawed Says Peters
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 8:17 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First will continue opposing flawed legislation for the proposed Supreme Court and has appealed to the Greens and United Future to withhold support until there has been a public referendum on the issue. More >>
GE Moratorium - Winston Peters Speech Notes
Tuesday, 16 September 2003, 2:17 pm | New Zealand First Party
- New Zealand First votes helped establish the blanket moratorium to allow work suggested by the Royal Commission to be advanced. More >>
Doc Killing More Weka
Tuesday, 16 September 2003, 12:40 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is appalled that the Department of Conservation can ruthlessly kill off hundreds of eastern buff weka without any public consultation. More >>
Urgent Action Needed On Housing
Monday, 15 September 2003, 3:52 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Child Poverty Action Group report on the state of housing in New Zealand is a sad indictment on the Government’s lack of concern for a distressing problem, said New Zealand First family affairs spokesperson Barbara Stewart. More >>
Aggressive Action Needed To Curb Teen Crime
Monday, 15 September 2003, 3:48 pm | New Zealand First Party
“It is time for the Government to start aggressively targeting entry level crime if young people are to be stopped entering into a life of crime,” said youth affairs spokesperson Craig McNair. More >>
NZ First Amendment Retains Moratorium On GE Food
Friday, 12 September 2003, 4:28 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has today submitted an amendment to the New Organisms and Other Matters Bill which, if passed, will effectively retain the moratorium on release of GE food until 2005. More >>
Winston Said That
Friday, 12 September 2003, 4:10 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is concerned but not surprised that a prominent trustee has resigned from the Crown Forestry Rental Trust. More >>
United Future Heading For A Bleak Past
Friday, 12 September 2003, 3:17 pm | New Zealand First Party
“United Future has sold out its dwindling supporters as a result of placing its parliamentary position ahead of its principles,” said New Zealand First MP Peter Brown. More >>
Customary Title Or Customary Rights
Friday, 12 September 2003, 11:50 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First said the Government must stop changing its position on the foreshore and seabed depending on who it is talking to on the day. More >>
Signs Of Apartheid Appear In Gisborne
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 10:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
“New Zealand is a nation of many cultures and could well do without the evils of racism,” said New Zealand First Maori Affairs spokesperson Bill Gudgeon. More >>
What Are The Real Tb Figures? Asks Peters
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 5:56 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has asked the Government to explain the discrepancy of 170 cases of tuberculosis in notifiable health statistics provided by the Minister of Health. More >>
