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Peters Speech: Foreshore and Seabed Case

Sunday, 10 August 2003, 8:55 pm | New Zealand First Party

An address by Rt Hon Winston Peters to a public meeting at Forbury Park Racecourse, Victoria Street, St Kilda, Dunedin on Sunday 10 August 2003 at 1.30pm More >>

NZ First MPs - Auckland Regional Cl Rates Meeting

Friday, 8 August 2003, 2:57 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First MP Dail Jones is calling for the meeting to be held by Members of Parliament with the Auckland Regional Council on Friday 8 August, to be open to the media with the view to express that the meeting being noted and publicized. More >>

Where Is Carroll Minister? Asks Mark

Friday, 8 August 2003, 2:55 pm | New Zealand First Party

“Corrections Minister Paul Swain should resign after the police revealed last night that convicted five-time rapist Michael John Carroll was missing from his Christchurch half-way house,” said New Zealand First law and order spokesperson Ron Mark. More >>

Bill To Reduce Violence Towards Children

Thursday, 7 August 2003, 5:15 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First MP, Brian Donnelly, has worked with a GP from his local area of Whangarei to redraft a Bill aimed at reducing violence towards children. More >>

Call For Central Funding Of Emergency Services

Thursday, 7 August 2003, 10:51 am | New Zealand First Party

Emergency services, including the likes of Childflight, should be centrally funded and not have to rely on money from gambling to survive, said New Zealand First family affairs spokesperson Barbara Stewart. More >>

Embarrassed Lianne Loses Files!

Tuesday, 5 August 2003, 4:28 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First has caused further embarrassment to the embattled Immigration Minister by pointing out that her officials lost two pallets of highly confidential files relating to residency applications. More >>

Breast Cancer Petition Presentation

Tuesday, 5 August 2003, 2:47 pm | New Zealand First Party

Rt Hon Winston Peters will be presenting a petition on behalf of Kathryn McIlraith for improved breast cancer follow-up treatment at 4.30pm today. More >>

Rogernomics Style Government Back

Tuesday, 5 August 2003, 2:46 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First family affairs spokesperson Barbara Stewart said Labour seems to be suffering from a lack of identity after it announced the new ‘Job Jolt’ policy. More >>

Suicide Handbook: No! No! No!

Monday, 4 August 2003, 3:19 pm | New Zealand First Party

“Exit New Zealand have distributed a suicide handbook which offers readers explicit instructions on how to kill themselves, along with strategies to avoid the death being detected as suicide. I find this very disturbing and appalling” said New Zealand ... More >>

Zaoui Must Go

Friday, 1 August 2003, 4:41 pm | New Zealand First Party

“Here we go again,” said New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters after Ahmed Zaoui was granted refugee status today. More >>

Peters Taxi Chit Inquiry More Toe Rag Journalism

Friday, 1 August 2003, 4:29 pm | New Zealand First Party

The Rt Hon Winston Peters, Leader of New Zealand First, today said The Dominion Post’s story inferring an irregularity in the use of his taxi chit on the 24 July 2003 was just another example of toe rag journalism. More >>

Minister Must Honour Her Pledge To Resign

Wednesday, 30 July 2003, 2:47 pm | New Zealand First Party

The latest round of denials from Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel is rapidly turning into a case of “what she didn’t know and when she didn’t know it” said New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>

Wasting Taxpayers' Money On Suspected Terrorist

Wednesday, 30 July 2003, 10:44 am | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First has accused the Government of wasting well in excess of $60,000 of taxpayers’ money already on a suspected terrorist while New Zealand families struggle to make ends meet. More >>

Minister Must Explain "Lie In Unison" Memo

Tuesday, 29 July 2003, 2:11 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First has called on the Immigration Minister to explain the existence of an Immigration Service memo in which one of her officials revealed there was an agreement to “lie in unison” over the detention of a suspected Algerian terrorist ... More >>

Death with Dignity Consistent with Bill of Rights

Monday, 28 July 2003, 4:34 pm | New Zealand First Party

Allowing people who are terminally or incurably ill to choose the time of their death is entirely consistent with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, the sponsor of the Death with Dignity Bill, New Zealand First Deputy Leader Peter Brown said ... More >>

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