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Winston Speech: “All For One - One For All”
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 2:30 pm | New Zealand First Party
An address by Rt Hon Winston Peters to a public meeting at the Regent Theatre, Greymouth at 12.30pm Thursday 7th October, 1999 Theme: “ALL FOR ONE - ONE FOR ALL” More >>
ACT’s Tertiary Policy Puts Money Before Merit
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 1:39 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First claims ACT’s tertiary policy will turn back the clock 100 years and recreate the elitist system of Dickensian England with large numbers of New Zealanders being excluded from higher education, said Education spokesperson and former Associate ... More >>
Once more, In English this time, Mr Cullen
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 12:20 am | New Zealand First Party
Once more, In English this time, Mr Cullen The New Zealand First Leader, Winston Peters, is asking Labour’s Public Sector Spokesperson, Michael Cullen, to explain Labour’s public sector reform programme, in English, instead of bureaucratic double-speak. More >>
Talk About it Next Monday? Not Good Enough Max!
Wednesday, 6 October 1999, 3:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Defence Spokesperson, and former soldier, Ron Mark, wants the Defence Minister Max Bradford to give more urgency to deciding the new pay allowances for New Zealand’s troops in East Timor. More >>
“Come Clean Labour And Alliance”
Wednesday, 6 October 1999, 12:19 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on Labour and the Alliance to release their coalition agreement before the election, so voters can see their joint policies. More >>
Students Paying For Others Bad Debt
Tuesday, 5 October 1999, 5:42 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Education Spokesperson Brian Donnelly says students paying for their defaulting fellows debt is just another example of the flawed present student loan policy. More >>
Labour Mental Health Denial Refuted By NZ First
Tuesday, 5 October 1999, 4:58 pm | New Zealand First Party
Mental Health past policies introduced by Labour leader Rt Hon Helen Clark are coming back to haunt her. More >>
NZ First Supports Fishing Industry
Tuesday, 5 October 1999, 2:35 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has questioned the reasons behind the Green Party policy of locking up 20% of New Zealand’s fisheries. More >>
Superannuation contest shows lack of policy
Monday, 4 October 1999, 7:05 pm | New Zealand First Party
The New Zealand First Leader, Winston Peters, wants to know why the Superannuation Taskforce is spending $42,000 on a competition for secondary school students to give their ideas on retirement incomes. More >>
NZ First Names Ian Walker as rural spokeperson
Monday, 4 October 1999, 6:28 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters announced Northland candidate Ian Walker as rural spokesperson at a rally held on Sunday to launch New Zealand First’s rural policy. More >>
NZ First Plans To Boost Provincial New Zealand
Sunday, 3 October 1999, 7:42 pm | New Zealand First Party
These were announced by the New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters, at a rally in Dargaville this afternoon. More >>
NZ First Promises Tough Coalition Bargaining
Thursday, 30 September 1999, 4:29 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First will be driving a hard bargain on behalf of thousands of New Zealanders on the 28th November – the day after the General Election. More >>
New Zealand First Tertiary Education Policy
Thursday, 30 September 1999, 2:09 pm | New Zealand First Party
Overall participation in tertiary education and training has increased but the average funding per student has decreased. This means that tertiary institutions are under pressure to achieve efficiencies or to increase revenue. More >>
Labour Adopts NZ First Tertiary Education Ideas
Wednesday, 29 September 1999, 1:02 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Education spokesperson and former Associate Minister of Education, Brian Donnelly, today said that Labour had followed New Zealand First’s policy of focusing on student loans and the essential reduction of interest rates. More >>
NZ First Maori Candidate For Te Tai Hauauru Seat
Wednesday, 29 September 1999, 9:15 am | New Zealand First Party
An outstanding Maori woman was chosen as the New Zealand First candidate for the Te Tai Hauauru electorate at a hui held at Te Tokanganui-a-noho Marae, Te Kuiti. More >>
Labour – Will You Accept The Alliance Tax Policies
Tuesday, 28 September 1999, 3:57 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on Labour to explain how many of the Alliance’s tax increases it is prepared to accept. More >>
Farcical Non Hostility Agreement Highlighted
Tuesday, 28 September 1999, 1:47 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today said that the release of the Alliance’s tax policy was significant only for the way in which it highlighted the farcical Alliance/Labour non hostility agreement in action. More >>
Peters Urges TVNZ To Take Election Seriously
Tuesday, 28 September 1999, 10:08 am | New Zealand First Party
The New Zealand First Leader, Winston Peters, will tell TVNZ that he will not take part in bizarre TV shows featuring “worms” because the issues facing New Zealanders are too important to be treated as cheap entertainment. More >>
NZ First Calls For Coalition Policy Statements
Sunday, 26 September 1999, 6:07 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on National and ACT, and Labour and the Alliance to release their coalition policies so the voters have plenty of time to study them before the General Election on 27th November. More >>
Government Inaction A Public Shame
Friday, 24 September 1999, 4:22 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader, Winston Peters, today expressed bitter disappointment at the Prime Minister’s decision to refuse to have the Victoria Cross posthumously awarded to World War II hero, Sergeant Haane Manahi. More >>
