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The Winebox - Who's Responsible? - Peters
Friday, 20 August 1999, 2:46 pm | New Zealand First Party
But – as we now know – key elements of the two old parties in Parliament didn’t want an inquiry and had everything at their disposal to stop it, including the support of some elitist members of the business world and significant elements of the media, ... More >>
Winebox Speech From Ron Mark MP
Friday, 20 August 1999, 2:01 pm | New Zealand First Party
It is a very significant day, not only because we have among us the Leader of New Zealand First, the Right Honourable Winston Peters, but also because the High court in Auckland will soon release its findings into what is commonly referred to as the ... More >>
Woolerton Accuses Young Of Dirty Politics
Wednesday, 18 August 1999, 5:31 pm | New Zealand First Party
Mr Doug Woolerton MP, New Zealand First Agricultural Spokesperson, today said that the National Party were playing dirty politics by trying to capitalise on Mr Woolerton being unable to attend part of a Special Committee Meeting on the Kiwifruit Restructuring ... More >>
Banking is too important to be left to Bankers
Wednesday, 18 August 1999, 2:32 pm | New Zealand First Party
There are important financial sector issues being debated at a national political level that will affect your ability to meet your client’s best interests. More >>
Tauranga Sends a Message to Wellington
Monday, 16 August 1999, 3:30 pm | New Zealand First Party
More than 600 people attended a public rally in Tauranga this afternoon to support their local MP, Winston Peters, and his re-election campaign. More >>
Peters Speech To Public Meeting - Taupo
Monday, 16 August 1999, 9:41 am | New Zealand First Party
A year can be an eternity. Exactly one year ago today the first MMP coalition government split up. Many in the Beehive were in a state of shock and, on the surface, New Zealand appeared to be in political turmoil. More >>
"Laserforce" Army Training Ludicrous
Thursday, 12 August 1999, 5:52 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Defence Spokesperson, Major (rtd) Ron Mark, has condemned the banning of live-fire training exercises as a "gigantic leap backwards" for our Army. More >>
“Treasury Does Not Rule NZ” – NZ First
Thursday, 12 August 1999, 5:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
The New Zealand First Leader, Winston Peters, said today that Members of Parliament are elected to govern New Zealand – not Treasury bureaucrats. More >>
Nuclear Hypocrisy
Thursday, 12 August 1999, 11:06 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters MP, today contrasted the National Government’s willingness to assist North Korea’s nuclear industry with it’s refusal to assist New Zealand veterans of British nuclear tests. More >>
Viagra Pathetic Token Hand-Out
Thursday, 12 August 1999, 10:47 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Defence Spokesperson for Veterans Affairs, Ron Mark, says the government’s talk of giving New Zealand war veterans discounted Viagra is demeaning and does nothing to address their major concerns. More >>
Dock Officers Pay - NZ First
Thursday, 12 August 1999, 9:51 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Defence Spokesperson, Ron Mark, has called for the Minister of Defence to dock the pay of all those officers who authorised and attended the glitzy Masters of Business Seminar in Auckland and not take money from the Defence training ... More >>
Sir Douglas Myers’ Anti MMP Remarks Predictable
Wednesday, 11 August 1999, 4:28 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today said that Business Roundtable Chairman, Sir Douglas Myers’ anti MMP comments at a Tauranga Chamber of Commerce luncheon are highly predictable. More >>
Hold The Hauraki Marine Park Bill
Tuesday, 10 August 1999, 5:22 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called for the Hauraki Marine Park Bill to be delayed until the Waitangi Tribunal has resolved the ownership and property rights to the foreshore and seabed for Hauraki Maori. More >>
INCIS: Once Again The Consultants Are Smiling
Tuesday, 10 August 1999, 3:02 pm | New Zealand First Party
While Finance Minister Sir William Birch is trying to lay the blame for the INCIS debacle at the feet of IBM and Labour try to lay it on the government, there's one group who's smiling all the way to the bank, says MP Gilbert Myles. More >>
NZ First MPs “Shocked” At Teen Drinking
Monday, 9 August 1999, 12:30 am | New Zealand First Party
Two New Zealand First MPs were shocked and horrified at the amount of teenage drunkenness they saw when they patrolled with police in Christchurch and Auckland last night and early this morning. More >>
A Nightmare Masquerading As Vision
Monday, 9 August 1999, 12:27 am | New Zealand First Party
Today in New Zealand Politics everyone is talking about vision. No one seems to know what that is but apparently it is an attachment that every politician should have but does not More >>
Theme: "The women leaders have lost their way."
Friday, 6 August 1999, 12:51 am | New Zealand First Party
We were the first to give women the vote, to pay substantial old age pensions, and to adopt enlightened industrial laws. More >>
Theme: "MMP - cleaning up Government"
Friday, 6 August 1999, 12:48 am | New Zealand First Party
Over the past fifteen years New Zealand has been through one of the biggest social and economic upheavals experienced by any Western democracy outside war. More >>
Action Required Over RBA – Not Navel Gazing
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 11:47 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has welcomed Helen Clark’s announcement that Labour will amend the Reserve Bank Act’s Policy Target Agreement to keep the exchange rate competitive but says it is only “tinkering” with the problem. More >>
Creech – “Chamberlain Of The Food Chains”
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 11:45 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has called on the Health Minister to explain why he has sold out to food chains over GMF and irradiated food. More >>
