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‘Talent Visa’ An Insult To NZ Workers

Wednesday, 5 December 2001, 11:02 am | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First Leader and Member for Tauranga Rt Hon Winston Peters, said today, “The decision of Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel, to fast track overseas employees wishing to work here through a new system called ‘talent visa’, so long as they were ... More >>

All Pre-Sales Hype, And No After Sales Service

Tuesday, 4 December 2001, 1:34 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters has expressed his disappointment that the Government and the Minister of Health, in particular, are so dismissive of the health needs of ordinary New Zealanders, as demonstrated by their total disinterest ... More >>

Greens Actions Irrational And Irresponsible-Peters

Tuesday, 4 December 2001, 9:28 am | New Zealand First Party

“Unlike the Greens, New Zealand First is going to support the Government and will approve the expenditure necessary to maintain Air New Zealand as our national airline, said New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters today. More >>

Ron Mark MP

Monday, 3 December 2001, 9:31 am | New Zealand First Party

Ron Mark MP has today been admitted to hospital for tests. His wife Gail has asked that we indicate that Ron is comfortable, and that he will undergo further tests during the next few days. More >>

Skyhawks Court Decision Sad Day For NZ Defence

Wednesday, 21 November 2001, 5:16 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First Defence Spokesperson, Ron Mark, is expressing disappointment at the decision of the High Court to dismiss the Save Our Squadrons (SOS) case against Defence Minister Mark Burton. More >>

Intimidation Is Never Acceptable

Monday, 19 November 2001, 4:18 pm | New Zealand First Party

“Intimidation of children, parents and teachers at Insoll Avenue Primary School by protestors has been an unacceptable blight on our fundamental freedoms,” said New Zealand First MP Doug Woolerton today. More >>

Labour Admit They Botched Up Electoral Bill

Friday, 16 November 2001, 4:29 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First Deputy Leader, Peter Brown, is astonished that Labour MP Tim Barnett on the Kim Hill show, has admitted the Government will need to amend an amendment to the Electoral Act—less than a day after passing it. More >>

Crack Anti-Terrorism Squad Working For Free.

Friday, 16 November 2001, 4:27 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters, has learned that Armourguard have been staffing the new anti-terrorist security force in Parliament with students who are working for free and are on work experience. “It seems that since Parliament ... More >>

Govt. Turns Record Keeping Into Profit Taking

Wednesday, 14 November 2001, 3:57 pm | New Zealand First Party

“The recent decision by the Government to substantially increase the charges for accessing information or records held by its department of Births Deaths and Marriages, will come as a most unpleasant surprise when they are required to now pay a grossly ... More >>

Mallard’s Remarks Insulting - says Donnelly

Wednesday, 14 November 2001, 3:55 pm | New Zealand First Party

‘Remarks by the Minister of Education are not only insulting to the MPs who worked on the review of the teaching of reading in NZ, it is also a denunciation of his own Ministry employees’, NZ First education spokesperson Brian Donnelly said today. More >>

Bank's Governor Needs To Provide Leadership

Wednesday, 14 November 2001, 9:11 am | New Zealand First Party

The New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters is looking for a reduction in the OCR (Official Cash Rate) of at least 0.75%. “It is time for the Governor to show some leadership,” Mr. Peters said. More >>

National Sabotaging New Zealand Interests

Wednesday, 14 November 2001, 9:09 am | New Zealand First Party

“National’s wet-behind-the-ears leader Bill English is sabotaging Kiwibank before it starts,” New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said. More >>

National Disgrace

Wednesday, 14 November 2001, 9:08 am | New Zealand First Party

“It is a deplorable decision by National to reconsider its support of the Government’s anti-terrorist position and therefore of our elite soldiers who may at this moment be engaged in this war,” according to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. More >>

Peters Criticizes Minister Of Health's Inaction

Friday, 9 November 2001, 10:43 am | New Zealand First Party

“Health Minister Annette King has been woefully inadequate in implementing key recommendations of the Gisborne cervical cancer inquiry,” alleges New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. More >>

Government's Deeds Fail To Match Its Words

Friday, 9 November 2001, 10:38 am | New Zealand First Party

“Conservation Minister Sandra Lee’s apparent outrage at the departure of a Japanese fleet to seek and slaughter whales in the Southern Ocean sanctuary must have been expressed with forked tongue,” New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has said. More >>

Top Civil Servants Salaries Obscene - Donnelly

Friday, 9 November 2001, 10:24 am | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First MP, Hon Brian Donnelly, labeled the recent Annual Report of the State Services Commission, “an insult to taxpayers and irrefutable evidence that the Labour/Alliance government has no greater interest in reining in ‘those up to ... More >>

It’s Democracy Jim, But Not As We Know It

Friday, 9 November 2001, 12:15 am | New Zealand First Party

“The unhappy people at this weekend’s Alliance Party conference will be even unhappier when they realise that their strategists have assigned one of their major debates to the five o’clock shift, ” New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said today. More >>