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New Zealand’s New Fire Levy Model Already Out of Date
Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 3:36 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand’s “new” funding model for fire and emergency services is already outdated, says New Zealand First. More >>
Race-Based Prison Goes Against Justification for Ngawha
Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 11:28 am | New Zealand First Party
Labour’s plan to turn Ngawha prison in Northland into an all-Maori jail goes against the justification for the prison being built in the first place and, further, race-based policies don’t work, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland Member of Parliament ... More >>
Guy Has to Lift His Game Over Myrtle Rust
Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 11:25 am | New Zealand First Party
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy was caught flat-footed over the myrtle rust outbreak in Kerikeri last week and the follow-up since then has been lacking, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland Member of Parliament Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
Theft One More Blow to Proper Funding of Ambulance
Monday, 8 May 2017, 4:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
The theft of a medical kit from an ambulance is appalling, putting a further burden on an already stretched service, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
Speech: Peters - Police Presence Not Propaganda
Sunday, 7 May 2017, 8:30 pm | New Zealand First Party
Speech to Indian Association of NZ and Crime Prevention Group 57 Hillside Rd, Papatoetoe, Auckland 4pm, Sunday, 7th May 2017 Police Presence Not Propaganda Let’s not beat around the bush here. We know the facts. Dairies are being robbed, owners and workers ... More >>
Myrtle Rust a Disaster Kiwis Can Help to Defeat
Thursday, 4 May 2017, 5:38 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is amazed that the Minister for Primary Industries, Nathan Guy did not use a Ministerial Statement to ask that 4.7 million New Zealanders join the effort to locate incursions of the plant pest Myrtle Rust. More >>
Photo Proves Safe Re-Entry Possible into Pike River Tunnel
Thursday, 4 May 2017, 5:36 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Minister for the Environment Nick Smith maintains it is not safe for workers to be more than a few metres inside the Pike River mine entry tunnel, but this has already occurred. More >>
Unemployed Youth ‘Just Having Fun’ - Goldsmith
Thursday, 4 May 2017, 5:04 pm | New Zealand First Party
Young New Zealanders who are out of work, and not receiving education or training are just having some fun and just taking some time off, according to the government, says New Zealand First. More >>
National Trying to Fix Their Mistakes in Education
Thursday, 4 May 2017, 3:38 pm | New Zealand First Party
National’s revised Better Public Service target in writing and maths for Year 8 students shows National Standards have completely failed, says New Zealand First Spokesperson for Education Tracey Martin. More >>
Myrtle Rust inaction risks Manuka, Pohutukawa, Rata & more
Thursday, 4 May 2017, 1:50 pm | New Zealand First Party
Five years after Scion warned the government to prepare for Myrtle Rust, a mortal threat to New Zealand natives, apiculture and horticulture, its arrival in Raoul Island means it is a matter of when, not if, it arrives in New Zealand. More >>
Shopkeepers under Siege While Bennett Ignores Them
Thursday, 4 May 2017, 12:37 pm | New Zealand First Party
Police Minister Paula Bennett is slumbering idly by as dairy owners and liquor store owners all over the country are being robbed every day of the week, says New Zealand First Police Spokesperson Ron Mark. More >>
Disappointing Invercargill Not Consulted on Refugees
Thursday, 4 May 2017, 10:11 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is disappointed in the lack of consultation by the National government over the new refugee settlement in Invercargill. More >>
Pike Contractor Gagged. Why?
Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 11:21 pm | New Zealand First Party
Pike Contractor Gagged. Why? A drilling contractor working at the Pike River Mine after the 29 deaths has never been allowed to reveal what he saw. “His contract has an extra confidentiality clause gagging him from ever talking to the news media,” ... More >>
Time to Investigate Reinstating Wellington-Lyttelton Ferry
Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 5:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
A serious investigation by the government into the viability of reinstating a car, freight and passenger ferry between Wellington and Lyttelton has to be undertaken, says New Zealand First Transport Spokesperson Denis O’Rourke. More >>
PM’s Youth Crime Claim Will Infuriate Dairy Owners
Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 3:28 pm | New Zealand First Party
Prime Minister Bill English’s claim in Wellington today that his government has overachieved by bringing youth crime down by a third will infuriate ordinary Kiwis who are suffering under a wave of youth crime around the country, says New Zealand ... More >>
Insurance Bills to Rise From Fire Service Amalgamation
Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 1:12 pm | New Zealand First Party
The cost of the amalgamation of rural and urban fire services will be an extra cost on New Zealanders’ fire insurance bills, says New Zealand First. More >>
Nearly $300,000 Legal Bill, Maori Board v Auckland Council
Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 11:58 am | New Zealand First Party
NZ First is warning rate and taxpayers that huge legal bills will be coming their way given National’s racially based changes to the Resource Management Act. More >>
Dispatch Brownlee to Canberra with an Apology Note
Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 11:50 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First wants Foreign Affairs Minister Gerry Brownlee to take a note signed by all political parties, with the exception of New Zealand First, apologising for the country’s shambolic immigration policy which led to tens of thousands moving ... More >>
The facade of prosperity, living off past capital
Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 8:56 am | New Zealand First Party
After almost 9 years the government’s brag of doing an outstanding job in managing the New Zealand economy has worn wafer thin. More >>
More Northland Police Needed Now; Not Over Four Years
Tuesday, 2 May 2017, 4:12 pm | New Zealand First Party
The epidemic of youth crime hitting Northland was spawned by National failing to put enough police on the ground, says New Zealand First. More >>
