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Three Waters Announcement The Sow’s Ear Of A Separatist Agenda
Friday, 29 April 2022, 11:11 am | New Zealand First Party
“Labour’s Three Waters announcement today is nothing but a ‘faux backdown’ which has only occurred due to massive public backlash and the calculated loss of political capital they would endure,” says Rt Hon Winston Peters Leader of New ... More >>
Co-governance Must Be Stopped Now – Not 2026
Friday, 25 March 2022, 11:31 am | New Zealand First Party
“The insidious creep of the racist, separatist, secretive co-governance agenda must be stopped now – we simply cannot wait for a referendum in four years’ time,” says Rt Hon Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “The only future ... More >>
Marsden Point Pipes Being Filled With Concrete - Blatant Economic Treason
Tuesday, 22 March 2022, 10:34 am | New Zealand First Party
“The revelation that the government is allowing the Marsden Point Oil Refinery pipes to be filled with concrete shows an astonishing level of economic ignorance,” says Rt Hon Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “At a time when we have ... More >>
Sadness At The Passing Of A Great New Zealander - Sir Wira Gardiner
Friday, 18 March 2022, 11:19 am | New Zealand First Party
“Sir Wira Gardiner was a great New Zealander with a very distinguished record in military, public, and business life.” says the Rt. Hon Winston Peters. "Coming from a very large family and economic hardship he nevertheless distinguished himself ... More >>
Prime Minister In On The Three Waters He Puapua Deception
Wednesday, 9 March 2022, 2:42 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Multi-Party Working Group has not come up with a compromise on the Government’s “Three Waters” reforms. Allowing Councils shares in what they already own is not a concession but a con because share ownership with out control is meaningless ... More >>
This Protest Could Have Ended Weeks Ago
Wednesday, 23 February 2022, 3:12 pm | New Zealand First Party
If the government had opened dialogue on day one – as governments have done with every other protest on the grounds of parliament, we wouldn’t be in this position to begin with. The reason they didn’t is because, for the first time in living ... More >>
Covid Modelling Data Must Be Released For Public Scrutiny
Thursday, 17 February 2022, 11:47 am | New Zealand First Party
“The government’s Covid modelling being used to enforce restrictions on kiwis must be released in its entirety for public scrutiny,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “How can the government ask us to ‘trust the science’ ... More >>
Remove Damaging Mandates, Reinstate All Jobs, Let All Kiwis Work
Monday, 14 February 2022, 11:20 am | New Zealand First Party
“It’s long since time to remove these unnecessarily damaging mandates and give kiwis back their right to work,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “There needs to be an end to scaremongering and despotic enforcement, and a return ... More >>
These Protests Were Avoidable
Thursday, 10 February 2022, 4:21 pm | New Zealand First Party
When COVID first arrived in New Zealand we were experiencing the spread of an unknown virus that threatened health systems around the world. The fact is the world had not seen a virus like this for more than a hundred years and we were not prepared ... More >>
Fast Tracking Residency For 170000 Migrants – Return Of Failed Policies Of The Nineties
Thursday, 27 January 2022, 12:03 pm | New Zealand First Party
“Instead of wise, focused, and essential immigration, the fast tracking of residency for 170,000 immigrants on working visas is a blatant return to the dangerous unfettered immigration policies of the past thirty years,” says Winston Peters Leader of New ... More >>
Iwi Roadblocks Are What's Racist, Not The Criticism Directed At Them
Tuesday, 7 December 2021, 2:14 pm | New Zealand First Party
“Kelvin Davis’ comment that any challenging of the Northland iwi roadblocks is just ‘racist’ is as shallow as it is wrong,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “When you set up something that is racist, criticism against ... More >>
WDC Conference Centre Decision Scandal
Friday, 26 November 2021, 2:22 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The Whangarei District Council decision today to reject a $60million offer from Central Government organised last year, through the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF), is nothing short of a scandal,” says Rt Hon Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand ... More >>
Kainga Ora Gang Members: Boot Them Out
Wednesday, 24 November 2021, 1:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The case of an elderly couple being abused, threatened, and intimidated by feral gang members at a next-door state house this week unfortunately is not an uncommon event,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “The frequency of these ... More >>
New Iwi Roadblock Law: Deliberate Legislative Separatism
Monday, 22 November 2021, 11:08 am | New Zealand First Party
“Legislation passed that allows illegal iwi roadblocks to now become legal is pure legislative separatism,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “Not only does it allow the government to continue their dangerous separatist agenda, ... More >>
Grave Disquiet Over Pike River Development
Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 3:01 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The news today that two bodies have been found and photographed at Pike River is a development that raises more questions than answers,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “Until the Pike River disaster, over centuries of ... More >>
Ministerial Covid Statement Must Be Challenged
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 12:58 pm | New Zealand First Party
“Covid Response Minister Chris Hipkins has said today that vaccination “efforts to reach Māori early were undermined” – he is right, but he didn’t admit by who,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “The facts are very clear. ... More >>
Focus On Covid Hospitalisation Rate – Not Community Cases
Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 3:40 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The government needs to start using the covid hospitalisation rate and ICU numbers to make decisions and shift from using the increasingly irrelevant ‘community case numbers’,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “It is important ... More >>
Light Rail: Another Massive Cost Blowout Blunder
Friday, 29 October 2021, 10:39 am | New Zealand First Party
“The government’s latest announcement about its plans for light rail in Auckland is, as New Zealand First said a year ago, a massive cost blowout and ten years of chaos for Auckland,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “Back then ... More >>
Winston Peters Statement
Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 4:53 pm | New Zealand First Party
On 9 October 2021 I gave an interview to Newshub on the issue of people who had crossed the Auckland Alert Level 3 border improperly using essential worker credentials. These people were understood to be associated with a member of an organised criminal ... More >>
Pfizer Vaccination Letter Never Brought To Cabinet
Wednesday, 6 October 2021, 3:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
“The communication from Pfizer on 30 June 2020 wanting to negotiate early vaccine delivery was never brought to cabinet in time,” says Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
