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Police Not Racist, Nandor
Tuesday, 21 May 2002, 4:08 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters, is questioning the claims of Nandor Tanczos and his assertions in Parliament today that drug enforcement officers are racist, and that drug laws are racist. More >>
MP To Examine ‘Boy-Racer’ Legislation In NSW
Tuesday, 21 May 2002, 9:32 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Law and Order Spokesman Ron Mark left today on a fact finding mission to investigate ‘boy-racer’ legislation in New South Wales, Australia. More >>
Now That’s Dopey!
Friday, 17 May 2002, 3:32 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has harsh criticism of Alliance Leader and Youth Affairs Minister Laila Harré’s drug education initiative, most notably the decision to have pro-cannabis activist Nandor Tanczos front the programme. More >>
Sexual Violence Not Needed In Our Society
Friday, 17 May 2002, 11:09 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First MP and campaigner for improved censorship standards Peter Brown has secured a meeting with the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon George Hawkins next week to seek the removal of the present censor, on the grounds that he has failed ... More >>
Shock And Dismay At Fisheries Commission Payments
Friday, 17 May 2002, 11:09 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has expressed shock and dismay at the extent to which commissioners have dipped into Waitangi fisheries assets. Commenting on revelations that $11 million in fees has been paid to Waitangi Treaty Fisheries commissioners ... More >>
Cabinet Should Make Special Appropriation
Thursday, 16 May 2002, 9:51 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Law and Order and Police Spokesperson Ron Mark believes that the case of the serial shop killer in Auckland requires an immediate appropriation from the Government’s contingency fund to Auckland Police in order to mount a dragnet ... More >>
Me Thinks They Doth Protest Too Much
Thursday, 16 May 2002, 12:56 am | New Zealand First Party
“Something obviously is rotten in the state of party funding when National protests so much about an inquiry into anonymous donations and, at the same time, Labour protests too little,” New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said today. More >>
Immigration In Perspective
Wednesday, 15 May 2002, 2:06 pm | New Zealand First Party
In these times the issue of immigration is no longer simply an issue of economics, although it has deep economic consequences. It is no longer simply an issue of social cohesion, although there are also very grave problems with immigration on that count. More >>
Accessing Of Papers Relating To Ron Mark MP
Tuesday, 14 May 2002, 7:36 pm | New Zealand First Party
“I have seen the communication between the Chief of the Defence Force, Air Marshal Ferguson to Ron Mark MP, of today’s date. In it Air Marshal Ferguson states that he is: More >>
Nutty Green Fisheries ‘Policy’
Tuesday, 14 May 2002, 1:49 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First wants to know what planet the Green Party is on when all their fisheries policy, announced by Jeanette Fitzsimmons at the annual seafood industry conference, seems to do is call for a 200-fold increase in areas that would face ... More >>
Ryall’s Statement On Teen Drinking - Double Talk
Tuesday, 14 May 2002, 9:55 am | New Zealand First Party
Bay of Plenty MP Tony Ryall is engaging in appalling hypocrisy when he claims in Saturday’s Bay of Plenty Times that the lowering of the drinking age is a “disaster for policing,” and further: “My personal view is that we should raise the drinking ... More >>
Dirty Tricks Brigade Reappears - Peters
Tuesday, 14 May 2002, 9:54 am | New Zealand First Party
“The Serious Fraud Office’s Bradshaw is once again playing politics” New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said. More >>
Now Warren’s Been Boaged!!
Monday, 13 May 2002, 3:56 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters is asking who will be next to be boaged after 15 year veteran Warren Kyd was boaged last night. More >>
“We Don’t Need No State Control” - Huh?
Monday, 13 May 2002, 3:55 pm | New Zealand First Party
So much for the National Party wanting to listen. They can’t even hear lyrics on albums right. More >>
Maori TV Or Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Tuesday, 7 May 2002, 3:47 pm | New Zealand First Party
“In the total debacle that has descended on Maori Television one fundamental question is being overlooked. It is not a question of what happened but rather, how could it possibly have happened?”, said New Zealand First Leader, Winston Peters. More >>
New Liquor Laws Are Effective - Peters
Monday, 6 May 2002, 10:24 am | New Zealand First Party
MP for Tauranga and Leader of New Zealand First Rt Hon Winston Peters has labelled as plain wrong, suggestions that the Local Government (Prohibition of Liquor in Public Places) Amendment Act 2001, is unworkable or is in some way flawed. More >>
Call To Clog Courts Stupid And Irresponsible
Friday, 3 May 2002, 1:50 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The call by the Green Party pro-cannabis member Nandor Tanzcos this week to ‘constipate the courts’ is unbelievably stupid and irresponsible,” according to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. More >>
Where Was This Promised In The Election Campaign?
Thursday, 2 May 2002, 4:48 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is urging Aucklanders to have their say on the selling of a number of strategic and other assets, including the Airport, pensioners’ flats and residential houses scheduled for a special Auckland City Council meeting on Friday afternoon. More >>
Mentally Ill Need Help Not Jail - Mark
Thursday, 2 May 2002, 2:05 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First MP Ron Mark today called for a winding back of de-institutionalisation and the provision of more secure care facilities for people who suffer from mental illness. More >>
Mark Congratulates Telecom For Helping Soldiers
Wednesday, 1 May 2002, 10:00 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Defence Spokesperson Ron Mark extends his congratulations and thanks to Telecom New Zealand for bringing an end to costly phone calls between East Timor soldiers and their families in New Zealand. More >>
