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News Flash on Immigration

Friday, 8 July 2016, 10:30 am | New Zealand First Party

Rt Hon Winston Peters New Zealand First Leader Member of Parliament for Northland 8 JULY 2016 News Flash on Immigration So it is official. “Mass immigration is the cause of the housing crisis.” Now watch the Reserve Bank being accused of being ... More >>

What’s Going on at Silver Fern Farms?

Friday, 8 July 2016, 9:27 am | New Zealand First Party

The cracks are showing in Silver Fern Farms, with its Chief Financial Officer Rob Woodgate, resigning less than a week after the co-op’s three-month sale extension to China’s Shanghai Maling. More >>

Reserve Bank pleas for action from Government

Friday, 8 July 2016, 9:21 am | New Zealand First Party

The Reserve Bank has stopped asking and is now pleading with the Government to take urgent action on the housing crisis, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson Grant Robertson. More >>

Salisbury Roll Decline A Consequence Of Policy

Thursday, 7 July 2016, 5:23 pm | New Zealand First Party

Minister of Education Hekia Parata continues to claim Salisbury boarding school for girls, in Nelson, is not value for money, says New Zealand First. More >>

Housing Plan Missing Vital Element – Immigration Restraint

Thursday, 7 July 2016, 5:03 pm | New Zealand First Party

The government cannot claim to have a comprehensive housing plan if it does not include massively curbing immigration demand for housing in Auckland, and elsewhere, says New Zealand First. More >>

Congratulations To Redcliffs School

Thursday, 7 July 2016, 12:56 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First congratulates supporters of Redcliffs School for their tenacity in the fight to prove that bureaucrats don’t always know best,” says New Zealand First Education Spokesperson Tracey Martin. More >>

National Needs To Learn Lesson From Iraq

Thursday, 7 July 2016, 12:51 pm | New Zealand First Party

To be frank and honest with the public is the lesson New Zealand must learn from British PM Tony Blair’s decision to go with the United States and invade Iraq in 2003, says New Zealand First. More >>

Kaipara Farce Continues as Govt ‘Mate’ Appointed

Thursday, 7 July 2016, 11:16 am | New Zealand First Party

The appointment of a government “mate” and former commissioner as Crown Manager of the Kaipara District Council is unbelievable, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>

1200 Agents Operating in India in Joyce’s Unregulated Circus

Thursday, 7 July 2016, 10:14 am | New Zealand First Party

The government has to sort out the crooked education agent crisis in India, the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Steven Joyce admitted in Parliament. More >>

National Creating Skilled Worker Debacle in Auckland

Thursday, 7 July 2016, 8:57 am | New Zealand First Party

Auckland is facing a major problem of skilled workers not wanting to go and live in the city or leaving because it is too expensive, says New Zealand First. More >>

Cheating on Taxes No Obstacle to Securing Visas

Tuesday, 5 July 2016, 4:43 pm | New Zealand First Party

A bewildering disconnect between Immigration NZ, Internal Affairs and IRD could lead to New Zealand citizenship and residency granted to tax cheats, says New Zealand First. More >>

More Dodgy PR From No Bridges Minister

Tuesday, 5 July 2016, 1:13 pm | New Zealand First Party

In a blaze of publicity the government announced it would fix more than 90 road blackspots and save 900 lives – but it picked the number 90 out of the air, says New Zealand First. More >>

Supergold Card under Attack From National

Tuesday, 5 July 2016, 1:07 pm | New Zealand First Party

The government insisting SuperGold Cardholders have to buy smartcards to travel free on public transport at off-peak times is a move towards undermining the value of the card, New Zealand First Leader and Northland Member of Parliament Rt Hon Winston ... More >>

Party a Bit Rich for under-Performer

Monday, 4 July 2016, 8:51 am | New Zealand First Party

There’s nothing wrong with a bit of an annual party – but nearly $100,000 is a bit rich for any government agency, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>

Key tries to baffle on continued mass immigration

Sunday, 3 July 2016, 8:28 pm | New Zealand First Party

John Key is deliberately flogging the excuse that record immigration of over 124,000 people a year is mostly planeloads of Kiwis returning from Australia. More >>

Prime Minister’s housing announcement positive and negative

Sunday, 3 July 2016, 8:26 pm | New Zealand First Party

The positive from the Prime Minister’s housing statement today is that at last it’s an admission by the government that housing is in crisis in New Zealand, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>

Worker abuses mainstream in NZ

Sunday, 3 July 2016, 8:08 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand has just got another lousy mark from the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report 2016. More >>

Rail And Northport For The Price Of A New Auckland Port

Friday, 1 July 2016, 4:41 pm | New Zealand First Party

Aucklanders and taxpayers will end up paying a huge financial price if the main Port of Auckland is not moved to Northport, says New Zealand First. More >>

Silver Fern Farms Big Wigs Caught Out Over ‘Deadline'

Friday, 1 July 2016, 1:05 pm | New Zealand First Party

The rural and business media should not trust a word that comes from the big wigs at Silver Fern Farms, says New Zealand First, after its sell-out to a Chinese SOE has been pushed back three months to 30 September. More >>

NZ Faces Thousands Of Indian Students Overstaying Visas

Friday, 1 July 2016, 12:37 pm | New Zealand First Party

Member of Parliament for Northland 1 JULY 2016 NZ Faces Thousands Of Indian Students Overstaying Visas More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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