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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 >>

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 >>