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Meeting With Maori Members On Maori Seats
Monday, 21 May 2001, 9:50 am | New Zealand First Party
The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today said that he met with Maori Members of the Party last weekend in Rotorua to discuss New Zealand First’s position on the Maori Seats in the leadup to the next election. More >>
Reserve Bank Makes Right Decision – Peters
Wednesday, 16 May 2001, 10:45 am | New Zealand First Party
The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today said that the Reserve Bank decision to cut the official cash rate to 5.75% is the right decision albeit a conservative one. More >>
Put Airforce Redundancies On Hold
Wednesday, 16 May 2001, 12:27 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First spokesman for Defence, Ron Mark MP, is calling on the Labour Alliance government to put its plan to make Airforce personnel redundant, on hold by posting them as loan service personnel to the Australian, British, or US Airforces. More >>
Labour Refused Recognition Of Ngai Tahu Award
Friday, 11 May 2001, 9:21 am | New Zealand First Party
Ron Mark, New Zealand First MP from Rangiora said today he was saddened and perplexed as to why Labour’s Michael Cullen and Rick Barker refused his efforts to move a members Notice of Motion which sought to congratulate Doctor Terry Ryan for having been awarded ... More >>
Towing Companies To Become A Target For Attention
Thursday, 10 May 2001, 2:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters, today applauded the efforts of entertainer Gary McCormick for standing up to the Wellington Towing Company which removed and impounded his car recently, following an unfortunate mechanical breakdown on a busy ... More >>
Way To Go Ross
Thursday, 10 May 2001, 1:38 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader and Member for Tauranga, Rt Hon Winston Peters today gave his full support to the Chairman of Television New Zealand Dr Ross Armstrong, for his comments regarding the opportunity to improve the content and quality of news ... More >>
Electoral Apartheid Disastrous Step Backwards
Thursday, 10 May 2001, 10:02 am | New Zealand First Party
The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First and MP for Tauranga, today said that the Report of the Justice and Electoral Law Select Committee yesterday recommending proceeding to separate Maori constituencies for Environment Bay of Plenty ... More >>
Defence Force Sell Off - A Sell Out
Tuesday, 8 May 2001, 3:56 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is appalled at the level of naivety displayed by the Government as evidenced by its Defence Report released today, said Ron Mark MP, Defence Spokesman. More >>
Come Clean Clayton Cosgrove
Thursday, 3 May 2001, 10:39 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First MP Ron Mark has asked the MP for Waimakariri, Clayton Cosgrove, to come clean, and the Minister of Social Services, Hon Steve Maharey, to reveal the facts about the Government’s proposal to build a youth detention centre at Mandeville. More >>
Suspended Sentences Being Misused
Tuesday, 1 May 2001, 6:31 pm | New Zealand First Party
“Recent reports by the Minister of Justice, Hon Phil Goff, that government is at last moving to toughen up the sentencing rules for Judges by way of a new bill to be introduced into Parliament are to be applauded,” said Ron Mark MP, New Zealand ... More >>
Reward At Last For Some, Devastation For Others
Tuesday, 24 April 2001, 3:26 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Defence Spokesperson Ron Mark has expressed his pleasure at the Prime Minister’s late decision to compensate ex Japanese Prisoners of War, along with the Vietnam veterans whom with their families have suffered the consequences ... More >>
Government Removes The Incentive To Work – Peters
Tuesday, 24 April 2001, 2:57 pm | New Zealand First Party
“Up to 48,000 low income workers have been consigned to the health scrap heap through the mean spirited removal of their right to a Community Services Card, which provides a subsidised public health service,” said Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
No Fears About Safety! What Are They - Nuts?
Thursday, 19 April 2001, 10:36 am | New Zealand First Party
“The revelation that Auckland Airport air traffic control tower was unmanned for a period of time yesterday comes as no surprise, said New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters today. More >>
Mark On Pay Rise: But Why Did It Take So Long
Wednesday, 18 April 2001, 5:23 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has welcomed the announcement of a pay rise for Defence Force personnel but doubts that it will significantly deal with recruitment and retention problems. More >>
Labour Dragging Their Heels Over Party Hopping
Thursday, 12 April 2001, 3:54 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today said that Labour’s 1999 Campaign promise that anti party hopping legislation would be treated as a top governmental priority is belied by the fact that, after weeks of pressure from New ... More >>
Increased Independence Of Police Necessary Step
Thursday, 12 April 2001, 10:06 am | New Zealand First Party
The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today welcomed government decisions designed to enhance the independence of the Police Complaints Authority. More >>
Cave Creek Or Cervical Screening
Thursday, 12 April 2001, 12:30 am | New Zealand First Party
Whangarei based New Zealand First MP, Hon Brian Donnelly, today suggested that “those responsible for having failed to adequately monitor the cervical screening programme, leading to the debacle in Gisborne and placing the lives of many New Zealand women ... More >>
Gisborne Cervical Debacle
Tuesday, 10 April 2001, 5:57 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The enormity of the tragedy faced by so many women over the Gisborne cervical screening debacle must never be forgotten and such incompetence in an essential public health service must never be permitted to be repeated again, said Hon Brian Donnelly, New ... More >>
Action Of Nick Smith Immature And Illegal
Tuesday, 10 April 2001, 1:46 pm | New Zealand First Party
"The actions of one of the parties to the dispute currently surrounding the waterfront industries in various south island ports, in leaking a copy of the mediators draft report to Nick Smith can be only be interpreted as an act of bad faith on their ... More >>
Parliament Disregards Democracy - Peters
Friday, 6 April 2001, 5:23 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The manner in which my two Supplementary Order Papers tabled to amend the Shop Trading Hours Repeal Amendment Bill last night were treated by the Government and their appointed Chairperson of the Committee of the House, was nothing less than shameful party politics”, ... More >>
