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Rental Car Companies Must Take Responsibility
Monday, 30 May 2016, 12:10 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First believes rental car companies should take responsibility to ensure people hiring their vehicles are competent. More >>
Peters: Farmers Must Reject Being National’s Doormat
Friday, 27 May 2016, 5:26 pm | New Zealand First Party
Twenty-eight years ago, the late David Lange said: "Farming is a sunset industry and manufacturing and tourism will take its place." More >>
Fat People Hitting Smokers In The Pocket
Friday, 27 May 2016, 4:18 pm | New Zealand First Party
Hiking tobacco taxes in the 2016 “Get-Stuffed” Budget is just a lot of fat people sitting in their ivory towers telling smokers what to do, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland Member of Parliament Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
State House Sell-Off A Failure
Friday, 27 May 2016, 3:25 pm | New Zealand First Party
The only landlord for a state house should be the government, says New Zealand First. More >>
Govt Outed Allowing Kiwirail to Die a Lingering Death
Friday, 27 May 2016, 2:55 pm | New Zealand First Party
The government’s real intentions for KiwiRail can be seen in the Budget 2016 which dooms much of the national rail network to closure, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
Budget: Cynically Playing Smoke And Mirrors With Education
Friday, 27 May 2016, 1:56 pm | New Zealand First Party
The government is cynically attempting to bamboozle New Zealand educators and parents by moving figures around like a school gala game in its 2016 “Get-Stuffed Budget”, but it won’t work,” says New Zealand First. More >>
Budget 2016: Conservation Not a Priority
Friday, 27 May 2016, 1:43 pm | New Zealand First Party
Staff cuts, shut tracks and derelict DOC huts are the face of our conservation estate under the National government,” says Clayton Mitchell Conservation Spokesperson. More >>
Budget 2016: Only Delivers a Couple of Pills for Health
Friday, 27 May 2016, 1:07 pm | New Zealand First Party
The National government’s ‘Get-Stuffed” Budget has only dished out a couple of pills to New Zealand’s stressed out health system and falls far short of what is urgently needed, New Zealand First says. More >>
Budget 2016: Virtually Another Frozen Police Budget
Friday, 27 May 2016, 1:03 pm | New Zealand First Party
The government has told the police to “Get Stuffed” by freezing the money going into frontline work for the sixth year in a row, says New Zealand First. More >>
Budget 2016: Does Nothing For Housing
Friday, 27 May 2016, 1:02 pm | New Zealand First Party
The housing crisis is our most serious problem, but the government still says there isn’t one, says New Zealand First Housing Spokesperson Denis O’Rourke. More >>
Eric Mcisaac is Another Law & Order Black Mark
Friday, 27 May 2016, 10:24 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is repeating its view that law and order is now dominated by political do-gooders who see that crime is a disease. More >>
Budget 2016: $40 Million for Unproven Whānau Ora
Friday, 27 May 2016, 10:17 am | New Zealand First Party
The Māori Party is once again throwing good taxpayers’ money after bad at the still unproven Whānau Ora programme, says New Zealand First. More >>
Supergold Travel Funding Inadequate, a Smokescreen
Friday, 27 May 2016, 9:00 am | New Zealand First Party
The $40 million in Budget 2016 for the SuperGold Card amounts to only $10 million a year for off-peak travel. More >>
Bowel Screening Programme Far Too Little, Far Too Late
Thursday, 26 May 2016, 4:07 pm | New Zealand First Party
The Health Minister, Jonathan Coleman, has not even taken his national bowel screening programme proposal to cabinet and yet has already underfunded it, leaving the health of New Zealanders still at risk, says New Zealand First. More >>
National Tells Many Kiwis To ‘Get Stuffed’
Thursday, 26 May 2016, 3:57 pm | New Zealand First Party
The National government has told a majority of New Zealanders to “Get Stuffed” in their eighth year in office, New Zealand First leader and MP for Northland Rt Hon Winston Peters said today. More >>
Address in Reply, Budget 2016
Thursday, 26 May 2016, 3:49 pm | New Zealand First Party
• To those wanting law and order in this country and burglars apprehended with the police numbers to catch them More >>
Bennett Resettles Homeless In Jobless Towns
Thursday, 26 May 2016, 10:45 am | New Zealand First Party
The Minister for Social Housing Paula Bennett wants to resettle Auckland’s homeless to jobless towns like Huntly, Ngaruawahia, Lower Hutt and Palmerston North, says New Zealand First. More >>
Seniors Caught In Confusion Over Auckland Travel Card
Wednesday, 25 May 2016, 2:06 pm | New Zealand First Party
Auckland Seniors are facing chaos as Auckland Transport wrestles to regain control of its disastrous plan to switch Seniors to a new travel card. More >>
FMA Placebo Look At Silver Fern Farms Beggars Belief
Wednesday, 25 May 2016, 1:59 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is asking what the point of the Financial MarketsAuthority (FMA) is, with its report on Silver Fern Farms not being worth the paper it is written on. More >>
Urgent Action Needed After 7th Logging Truck Crash
Wednesday, 25 May 2016, 11:25 am | New Zealand First Party
The seventh crash involving a logging truck in Northland in just over seven weeks proves again a balanced road and rail transport plan must be implemented in the region,” says New Zealand First Leader and Northland Member of Parliament Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
