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It’s Not Jim’s Fault! It’s…It’s.. His Secretary's
Tuesday, 30 April 2002, 4:44 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is appalled that Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton is attempting to avoid responsibility for passing off a piece of art as his own because his secretary drew it. More >>
Government Sells Out To Loony Green Fringe
Tuesday, 30 April 2002, 1:29 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is appalled that the Government has decided to appease loony fringe environmentalists in the Green Party ahead of the social and economic development of New Zealanders by being the first country in the world to impose a carbon tax. More >>
Maori TV-- How Come Labour Is Not Copping The Flak
Monday, 29 April 2002, 6:09 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters, is asking how, once again, the media is handling the current Prime Minister with the very softest of kid gloves, but was quite prepared to crucify a previous government on a similar issue. More >>
Rip Van English Re-Announces Failed Old Policy
Monday, 29 April 2002, 2:16 pm | New Zealand First Party
“National Party Leader Bill English has thrown one more desperate dice in announcing his party’s election year policy on Treaty of Waitangi grievances,” New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said today. More >>
National MPs Politicise ANZAC Day
Friday, 26 April 2002, 2:41 pm | New Zealand First Party
“On Anzac Day in Tauranga the National Party caravan was parked outside the Anzac Day Commemorations at Queen Elizabeth II Park. In short it was a blatant attempt to politicise an event of great importance to New Zealanders,” New Zealand First ... More >>
Brash Back Out Of The Closet
Friday, 26 April 2002, 11:36 am | New Zealand First Party
“Twenty-two years after he last stood for the National Party the Reserve Bank Governor has reminded us of his politics,” New Zealand First Leader, Winston Peters said. More >>
Fourth Estate or Unregistered Party?
Friday, 19 April 2002, 1:33 pm | New Zealand First Party
Macauley stood in the British Houses of Parliament and observed: “The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm” More >>
Peters Speech: Race Relations -- What Has Changed?
Friday, 19 April 2002, 12:15 pm | New Zealand First Party
14 years ago I spoke to you on the subject: “Race Relations—the Last Chance for Change”. Reviewing that speech over the last few days has been an alarming experience. How true some of the predictions made back then have become. More >>
NZ First Will Repeal Reserve Bank Act
Wednesday, 17 April 2002, 10:55 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First will amend the Reserve Bank Act and make export, growth, and employment objectives part of the policy targets agreement between the new government and the Governor of the Reserve Bank after the next election. More >>
Labour Has No Mandate For 'Supreme' Court: Peters
Monday, 15 April 2002, 4:31 pm | New Zealand First Party
“Replacement of the London-based Privy Council with a New Zealand ‘supreme’ court is a very significant constitutional matter that should not be decided by a minority government, but by the people of New Zealand, after a full and well informed debate ... More >>
Labour/Alliance Roading Plan A Fraud On Road Users
Thursday, 11 April 2002, 10:58 am | New Zealand First Party
“The New Right is alive and well in Auckland with support of the Labour Party. Following the recent hikes in petrol tax and road user charges misrepresented by the Government as providing for roading development in Auckland the motorist is now confronted with ... More >>
Commentors Talking Through A Hole In Their Heads
Monday, 8 April 2002, 9:33 am | New Zealand First Party
Recent commentary on the comparisons between the Alliance debacle and New Zealand First are in the main cases of commentators talking through a hole in their heads – the wrong one. More >>
Censor Has Lost The Plot
Monday, 8 April 2002, 9:32 am | New Zealand First Party
- How does the Chief Film Censor describe film which depicts paedophilia; rape; sexual violence; explicit necrophilia; drug taking; intercourse involving human excrement; and all manner of obscene material, according to the censor’s own report, as: “accomplished ... More >>
Anderton’s Believe-It-Or-Not
Friday, 5 April 2002, 4:10 pm | New Zealand First Party
The discovery of a two-headed snake in Spain, as reported by the BOP Times on Thursday comes as no surprise for Winston Peters, because New Zealand has its own version right in Wigram. More >>
Max Has Been Boaged!
Thursday, 4 April 2002, 9:32 pm | New Zealand First Party
Max Bradford has not ‘retired from politics’ as is being claimed by the National Party, he has been Boaged. More >>
Tauranga Wins Tauranga Beats Out Sydney, Melbourne
Thursday, 4 April 2002, 4:22 pm | New Zealand First Party
MP for Tauranga, Winston Peters is overjoyed that Tauranga will be the New Zealand host for the solo round the world yacht race later this year. More >>
Failure To Understand Coalition Politics: Peters
Wednesday, 3 April 2002, 8:40 pm | New Zealand First Party
Alliance Leader Jim Anderton is in effect asking New Zealanders to believe that while he is in Parliament he will be the leader of one political party, and will pretend that the other party, of which he is also leader, does not exist. More >>
Talk To Us About Confidence And Supply: Peters
Wednesday, 3 April 2002, 1:48 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The bloody-minded pursuit of power that today will see the demise of the Alliance Party undermines MMP but need not alienate the will of the people,” New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters said today. More >>
Peters Speech: The Real Gaps Are In Understanding
Thursday, 28 March 2002, 2:55 pm | New Zealand First Party
According to a much publicised recent essay on "Psycho-Babble", anyone who is Maori, is seriously traumatised and stressed by the transgenerational effects of colonisation. More >>
Health Minister Ad In Breach Of Cabinet Manual
Wednesday, 27 March 2002, 4:12 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is asking how Health Minister Annette King can justify appearing in four full page advertisements for a private health clinic in two Wellington newspapers, when the Cabinet Manual prohibits such activities, and Labour policy is against private ... More >>
