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Does Government Want Gang-Run Ghettos?
Monday, 18 February 2002, 1:03 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Government’s policy of appeasement to violent gangs is a choice of winning gang votes in the short term over preventing American style gang-run ghettos, according to New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
Time For 'Concern' Is Over. Time To Sever Ties
Friday, 15 February 2002, 6:17 pm | New Zealand First Party
If the Commonwealth is too lily-livered to take action against Zimbabwe then New Zealand should take unilateral action and encourage other Commonwealth nations to do the same, according to New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
Speech text of Speech by Rt Hon Winston Peters
Thursday, 14 February 2002, 11:29 am | New Zealand First Party
Speech text of Speech by Rt Hon Winston Peters, Reply to Prime Minister’s Statement, 13 February 2002, Parliament. More >>
$271 A Word. Did Tuku Write The PM's Speech?
Tuesday, 12 February 2002, 4:33 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has employed an army of clerks to work out the statistics of the Prime Minister’s speech. More >>
Your Place, Our Place, Whose Place Is It?
Monday, 11 February 2002, 9:30 am | New Zealand First Party
It is easy to become bogged down in the minutiae in politics. With the election coming up it is important to look at where this country is heading. More >>
Tranzrail Rip-Off Almost Complete
Friday, 8 February 2002, 4:19 pm | New Zealand First Party
One of the biggest rip-offs in New Zealand corporate history is almost complete with Fay-Richwhite selling shares they bought for 16c each in a deal with government assistance and selling them for $3.60 today, according to New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston ... More >>
Court Closure Puts Cosgrove On Trial
Friday, 8 February 2002, 12:39 am | New Zealand First Party
“The closing of the Rangiora Court by the Labour Alliance Coalition Government raises a question that we in the Waimakariri cannot ignore. Is this the best representation in Parliament Waimak can expect or is there someone else who is more up to the job?” ... More >>
National Brought Back School Zoning, Not Labour
Thursday, 7 February 2002, 10:11 am | New Zealand First Party
“National’s education spokesperson, Nick Smith, should check the legislative history before he mouths off about school zoning,” said New Zealand First’s education spokesperson Hon Brian Donnelly. More >>
Dont Dabble With The Cause Of Youngsters Drinking
Thursday, 31 January 2002, 3:42 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First MP and law and order spokesman Ron Mark, today urged the Minister of Justice, Phil Goff, to cease cogitating over the causes of liquor related offending by young people, to accept that the decision of many of his Labour Party colleagues ... More >>
Don’t Throw Out School-Funding Baby With Bathwater
Wednesday, 30 January 2002, 3:37 pm | New Zealand First Party
NZ First’s Education spokesperson, Brian Donnelly, is urging Bill English to get some decent advice before throwing out the decile funding system for schools. More >>
Auckland Advocate Will Be Sorely Missed: Peters
Thursday, 24 January 2002, 1:23 pm | New Zealand First Party
“Auckland has lost one of its more effective advocates, and New Zealand has lost a wonderful character,” said New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters. More >>
$1 Million For Six Bendy Lines. Is That It?
Thursday, 24 January 2002, 1:20 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters, is wonder exactly where $1million went to in the design of the Maori-made logo, and what right Creative New Zealand think they have to attempt to register living organisms and an entire culture. More >>
New Zealand First Mourns Death Of Soldier
Wednesday, 23 January 2002, 9:26 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First expresses regret over the passing of Lieutenant-General Tony Birks, who was a distinguished soldier, and Chief of Defence Force while New Zealand First was a coalition partner in Government. More >>
Call For Burton To Come Clean On Manning’s Death
Tuesday, 15 January 2002, 9:17 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Defence Spokesman, Ron Mark MP, is calling for the complete public disclosure of the Court of Inquiry conducted into the Death of Private Leonard Manning. More >>
Senior Army Officers Must Be Suspended
Saturday, 29 December 2001, 10:37 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The government must now suspend all Army Officers who were involved in the systematic and deliberate destruction of boxes of important Defence documents”, said New Zealand First’s spokesman for Defence, Mr Ron Mark MP when speaking on today’s release, of ... More >>
NZ First Re: Liquor Bill
Friday, 21 December 2001, 9:45 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader and MP for Tauranga, Rt Hon Winston Peters, has today issued the following statement- More >>
New Zealand First Statement On SSC Release
Thursday, 20 December 2001, 10:20 am | New Zealand First Party
“We have received a copy of a letter from the Sate Services Commissioner to the Minister of Defence, Mark Burton. We appreciate that further investigation is warranted, as the letter suggests, and at this time we appreciate the level of seriousness of these ... More >>
No Budget Blow-Out, Despite Superannuation
Tuesday, 18 December 2001, 3:48 pm | New Zealand First Party
“Today’s Budget Policy Statement is a very conservative statement,” according to New Zealand First Leader and Finance Spokesperson, Rt Hon Winston Peters. “We are glad to see that the Government has chosen to not go into deficit, and has still ... More >>
NZ First Position On Afghanistan And Govt Support
Tuesday, 18 December 2001, 2:10 pm | New Zealand First Party
Due to a number of media inquiries this morning following the apparent weakening in support for the Government from the Greens, The Alliance, the National Party and the United party over the deployment of New Zealand troops in Afghanistan, New Zealand ... More >>
Good Policies Eventually Win Through
Tuesday, 18 December 2001, 12:01 am | New Zealand First Party
The New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, has welcomed the belated passing, by Order in Council, of restrictions on foreign ownership of New Zealand’s farmlands. More >>
