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Crown Entities Governance & Accountability Regime

Wednesday, 20 October 1999, 3:34 pm | New Zealand First Party

The State Services Minister, Hon Simon Upton, today announced the Government's intention to introduce a Crown Entities Bill next year. The proposed Legislation is part of the Government's Crown Entities Initiative, announced in July. More >>

Concern Over Failed Mental Health Policies

Tuesday, 19 October 1999, 3:05 pm | New Zealand First Party

“The fact that 400 people met in Auckland last night to discuss the failings of the mental health system, is yet another example of Labour’s policies of the 1990s having gone so terribly wrong,” said New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>

Winston Peters Speech On Military Training

Tuesday, 19 October 1999, 1:22 pm | New Zealand First Party

Extracts from a speech by Rt Hon Winston Peters to South Waikato Greypower Association, Scout Hall Kauri Park, Tokoroa More >>

More Controls Needed On Greedy State Servants

Tuesday, 19 October 1999, 9:17 am | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First will end the culture of greed and lack of accountability in the State Sector. More >>

INCIS—A Serious Blow to Crime Fighting

Monday, 18 October 1999, 2:46 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters, is urging further Government action to sort out the INCIS and CARD debacles after a damning report of the Justice and Law Reform Select Committee’s into the failed computer systems. More >>

Winston Peters - "Bring back National Service"

Monday, 18 October 1999, 1:32 pm | New Zealand First Party

Extracts from an address by Rt Hon Winston Peters to a public meeting at the Methodist Church Hall, Wellington Street, Hamilton. More >>

Labour Endorses Tamihere’s Plans

Monday, 18 October 1999, 9:35 am | New Zealand First Party

“ Labour’s Maori policy is an attempt to appropriate the legally recognised rights of hapu and iwi under Article Two of the Treaty of Waitangi,” Tutekawa Wyllie, the New Zealand First Maori Affairs spokesperson, said today. More >>

Shipley's Regret At Coalition Collapse

Sunday, 17 October 1999, 8:16 pm | New Zealand First Party

The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today said that Jenny Shipley's comments in the Sunday Star Times (17/10/99) that she wished him well in politics and was personally very sorry when the National/New Zealand First Coalition ... More >>

"Better Radio & Television Programmes Are Coming"

Sunday, 17 October 1999, 8:15 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First wants New Zealanders to enjoy a quality publicly owned radio and television system that reflects their culture and national identity. More >>

Labour Has Betrayed The Coast

Friday, 15 October 1999, 11:20 am | New Zealand First Party

“It is a total betrayal of the West Coast for Helen Clark to announce that Labour will introduce retrospective legislation to annul Timberlands beech contracts,” the New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters said today. More >>

IRD Close Twelve More Branches-Peters.

Friday, 15 October 1999, 9:26 am | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First Leader, Rt. Hon Winston Peters, is shocked to learn tonight that the Inland Revenue Department has concealed plans to close 12 of its branches from a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry. More >>

Immigration Minister does not know Immigration Law

Thursday, 14 October 1999, 6:35 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First Leader, Rt. Hon Winston Peters, wants to know why no Government action was taken on illegal immigration scams being perpetrated on Tongan nationals in South Auckland. More >>

Alliance Has Lost Its Credibility With The Elderly

Thursday, 14 October 1999, 5:43 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First Leader, Winston Peters, has told the Alliance to stop being apologists for the lack of action over a sound superannuation plan by its Accord partners, National and Labour. More >>

Crime Move Too Little – Too Late!

Thursday, 14 October 1999, 1:08 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First believes that National should have been tough on gangs and drug dealers for the past nine years instead of leaving it a few weeks before an election campaign. More >>

Excessive Bank Profits At Expense Of Rural NZ

Thursday, 14 October 1999, 1:06 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First Rural Spokesperson, Ian Walker, believes banks have improved their profitability at the expense of many small business clients in rural areas. More >>

Peters Speech On Superannuation

Thursday, 14 October 1999, 11:25 am | New Zealand First Party

Citizens who have made their contribution, and are entitled to live in some degree of financial security, now live in a state of insecurity, because they cannot trust the State to treat them fairly in their declining years. More >>

IRD to close Greymouth Office - Promises, Promises

Thursday, 14 October 1999, 12:20 am | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First Leader, Rt. Hon Winston Peters, is today expressing concern that the Inland Revenue Department has decided to close its sole West-Coast customer service branch in Greymouth, and is advising ‘customers’ to drive to Blenheim instead. More >>