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Government’s Breach Of International Law - Kyoto
Friday, 20 June 2003, 2:21 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First spokesperson for trade, Dail Jones said today, that the continuing obsession of the Government with the Kyoto Protocol flies in the face of New Zealand interests and is likely to be in breach of international law. More >>
Public Meetings Should Be Held On Local Marae
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 3:10 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Justice Spokesman Dail Jones has called for a series of Marae meetings to be set up to discuss Government moves to abolish the right of appeal to the Privy Council. More >>
Tamihere Outburst: The Raving Of A Bum Lawyer
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 8:13 am | New Zealand First Party
The Rt Hon Winston Peters, leader of New Zealand First said this evening that Mr Tamihere’s allegation of electoral fraud against New Zealand First was the raving of a bum lawyer without a practising certificate. More >>
Milk For Schools Should Continue
Wednesday, 18 June 2003, 1:47 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First’s family affairs spokesperson Barbara Stewart says she fully supports the Hawkes Bay District Health Boards milk-in-schools programme and hopes that other District Health Boards will follow suit. More >>
ACT Guilty As Charged Says Peters
Wednesday, 18 June 2003, 1:11 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says ACT is as guilty as sin over the way it used taxpayers’ money to fund an electorate office and staff but the Auditor General’s hands were tied because of loose parliamentary rules about the use of resources. More >>
NZ First Urges Urgent Investment In Infrastructure
Tuesday, 17 June 2003, 9:55 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called for the Government to quit its ad hoc approach to transport policy-making and immediately implement New Zealand First’s infrastructural plan. More >>
Policy Sunk By Poor Resourcing And Buck-Passing
Monday, 16 June 2003, 12:58 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called for the Government to increase funding so that its promise of free annual checks for diabetes can be honoured. More >>
Don't Stop There Urges Peters: Minister Must Go
Monday, 16 June 2003, 12:57 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has urged the Government to not stop with the suspension of Te Mangai Paho CEO Trevor Moeke but to deal with its own separatist agenda and the gravy train that accompanies it. More >>
Tranz Rail Deal Threatens Coastal Shipping
Thursday, 12 June 2003, 3:30 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says the Government’s bail out of Tranz Rail is threatening the future of the coastal shipping industry because of Tranz Rail’s predatory pricing policies. More >>
Government Abuses Constitutional Process
Thursday, 12 June 2003, 2:25 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First justice spokesperson Dail Jones says the Government’s intention to suspend Standing Orders to introduce minor legislation such as an Amendment of the Distress and Replevin Act 1908 is a gross abuse of the constitutional process. More >>
More Police Needed Urgently
Wednesday, 11 June 2003, 3:37 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First says the problem with police resources in Auckland supports the party’s campaign to double police numbers. More >>
New Zealand - The Last Asian Colony
Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 3:39 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has accused the Government of turning New Zealand into the last Asian colony and says the latest Statistics Department population projections prove this. More >>
New Zealand - The Last Asian Colony
Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 12:08 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has accused the Government of turning New Zealand into the last Asian colony and says the latest Statistics Department population projections prove this. More >>
Clark Not Above Suspicion
Monday, 9 June 2003, 11:54 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First finds it extraordinary that Helen Clark today has the temerity to be surprised and disappointed by the latest challenge to the Maori fisheries allocation issue. More >>
Criminals Buy Time And Freedom
Monday, 9 June 2003, 11:31 am | New Zealand First Party
''If you have money then you don’t have to do the time,'' said New Zealand First law and order spokesperson Ron Mark after a convicted killer-driver’s sentence was halved for paying $40,000 in reparations. More >>
Peters Speech Extracts NZ First Taupo Electorate
Monday, 9 June 2003, 8:54 am | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters - Extracts from a speech to the New Zealand First Taupo Electorate AGM, St Andrews Anglican Church Hall 2pm Sunday 8 June 2003 More >>
Save Rail Again Says NZ First
Friday, 6 June 2003, 4:52 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has criticised the Government’s agreement with Tranz Rail describing it as a “bitsy” arrangement that props the company up at a cost to the taxpayer far in excess of what it might have been. More >>
Reserve Bank Should Continue Downward Trend
Thursday, 5 June 2003, 10:02 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has welcomed the reduction in the Official Cash Rate to 5.25 percent but has urged the Reserve Bank to continue the downwards trend in interest rates. More >>
Liquor Ban Difficulties Temporary - Peters
Wednesday, 4 June 2003, 1:09 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader and MP for Tauranga, Rt Hon Winston Peters has urged the people of Tauranga not to be overly concerned by the recent developments which has seen the Police decide to not enforce the Tauranga Council’s liquor bans, imposed ... More >>
NZ First Pledges To Double Police Numbers
Friday, 30 May 2003, 12:13 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has announced a policy of doubling the number of police officers and a system of monitoring police performance by local communities. More >>
