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Labour's Tangled Web Of Its Own Making

Wednesday, 21 May 2003, 1:42 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First says the tangled legal mess of oil and gas ownership and Maori rights is a classic case of a Government reaping what it sowed when last in office. More >>

Lack Of Funds Jeopardises Community Groups

Wednesday, 21 May 2003, 11:05 am | New Zealand First Party

“While the Government sits on a $4m surplus we have community trusts and other groups working with our youth on suicide and drug addiction threatened with closure due to lack of funding,” said New Zealand First youth affairs spokesperson Craig McNair. More >>

Honesty No Longer The Policy Of The Police?

Wednesday, 21 May 2003, 9:35 am | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First has accused the Government of trying to cover up the level of Asian student crime in Auckland and silencing a police officer who went public with the problem. More >>

CYF's Must Remove Girls From Homes

Monday, 19 May 2003, 1:58 pm | New Zealand First Party

“CYF’s must remove the young girls at the centre of an investigation into prostitution from their placements,” said New Zealand First family affairs spokesperson Barbara Stewart. More >>

Unlicenced Immigrants Should Be Taken Off Roads

Friday, 16 May 2003, 5:06 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First law and order spokesperson Ron Mark today urged the Government to act now to keep foreign students and new immigrants off the roads until they meet New Zealand’s driving licence standards. More >>

More Trotters In The Crowded Trough

Friday, 16 May 2003, 5:04 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First says Helen Clark is rapidly running out of MPs to promote to ministerial rank as a result of the latest reshuffle - except for Mark Peck who has been thrown on the political scrapheap. More >>

Thin Blue Line Getting Thinner

Friday, 16 May 2003, 3:06 pm | New Zealand First Party

Law and order spokesperson Ron Mark said today that in the face of rising serious crime the Government had ignored the call for more officers nationwide and had done little to help ease frontline officers workload. More >>

Stop The Rail Offer: We Have Been Fooled Enough

Friday, 16 May 2003, 3:05 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First transport spokesperson Peter Brown said New Zealanders shouldn’t be fooled by the new offer from American company, Rail America to buy Tranz Rail. More >>

Budget Speech Rt Hon Winston Peters

Thursday, 15 May 2003, 4:33 pm | New Zealand First Party

I would like to amend the amendment moved by the Leader of the National Party by adding the words that….. “That this House also records that it has no confidence in this Government’s ability to govern as it only ACTS the part, and even then only ... More >>

Immigration Econ Bubble Will Burst Warns Peters

Thursday, 15 May 2003, 3:46 pm | New Zealand First Party

The Budget marked the official slide of New Zealand into Third World status as an Asian colony, Rt Hon Winston Peters said today. More >>

NZ First Takes Credit For Ncea Budget Funding

Thursday, 15 May 2003, 2:08 pm | New Zealand First Party

“A concerted and vigorous attack on the level set for NCEA fees has pushed the government into adding remedial money into the Budget,” claims New Zealand First education spokesperson, Brian Donnelly. More >>

Foreigners Come First With This Government

Thursday, 15 May 2003, 10:48 am | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First has called on the Government to stop foreign students skipping the country without paying for their health treatment. More >>

Government Not Consulting On Supreme Court Bill

Wednesday, 14 May 2003, 5:42 pm | New Zealand First Party

The lack of consultation shown by the Government in introducing the Supreme Court Bill is mirrored in its overwhelming desire to rush through the submissions which are being heard by the Justice and Electoral Select Committee , “said Dail Jones ... More >>

Goff Needs To Unscramble His Sentencing Mess

Tuesday, 13 May 2003, 4:45 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First law and order spokesperson Ron Mark says the Government’s so-called ‘get-tough’ Sentencing and Parole Act needs more than a ‘quick-fix’, as called for by the Justice Minister to tackle New Zealand’s sentencing mess. More >>

Killers Roam While Police Focus On Traffic Tickets

Monday, 12 May 2003, 12:37 am | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First law and order spokesperson Ron Mark has accused the Minister of Police of being obsessed with traffic tickets instead of crime fighting. More >>

What’s The Education Minister Hiding?

Thursday, 8 May 2003, 5:45 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First’s education spokesperson Brian Donnelly claims that the Minister of Education is deliberately breaking the law by not meeting the provisions of the Official Information Act. More >>

Cancer Compensation Should Be Fair

Thursday, 8 May 2003, 4:57 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First women’s affairs spokesperson Barbara Stewart has called on the Government to ensure that there is adequate compensation for the women affected by the misreading of cervical smears by pathologist Michael Bottrill in the 1990’s. More >>

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