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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 >>
Hymns of Hate in Wokish Moralising
Tuesday, 17 August 2021, 3:57 pm | New Zealand First Party
With so many economic and social concerns facing New Zealand it is truly alarming how disconnected to reality much of our news has become. The tardy COVID vaccine rollout, shootings and violent crime becoming a daily event, our belated response ... More >>
Imminent Delta Variant Disaster
Sunday, 15 August 2021, 4:21 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt. Hon Winston Peters “New Zealand First is concerned at the inexcusably slow COVID vaccine rollout and predicting a chilling result for public health and a lockdown of our economy, says Rt Hon Winston Peters. “New Zealand suffers from the worst ... More >>
The Rt Hon Winston Peters - AGM Address
Sunday, 20 June 2021, 5:59 pm | New Zealand First Party
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s a pleasure to be in Auckland for the 28th New Zealand First Party Conference. It is our intention and mission to remain the most successful political party outside of National and Labour in the last three decades. So many ... More >>
Rt Hon Winston Peters Speech: For The North - Back Your Future
Friday, 16 October 2020, 12:56 pm | New Zealand First Party
Acknowledgements: New Zealand First Party President, Kristin Campbell Smith and husband Stuart Minister for Regional Economic Development, and the Provincial Growth Fund, Hon Shane Jones Candidate for Whangarei, and former head of Northland Inc. ... More >>
New Zealand First Welcomes High Court Decision
Wednesday, 14 October 2020, 1:18 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First today welcomes the decision of the High Court on October 13th that allows media access to the correspondence between New Zealand First and the Serious Fraud Office, between June and September 2020. New Zealand First notes that ... More >>
Rt Hon Winston Peters Speech: Keeping Promises Matters
Wednesday, 14 October 2020, 12:42 pm | New Zealand First Party
In the closing days of this campaign it’s great to see you all here when most campaigns have given up and wanted you to vote from day one, day two, and every day since. That’s because they didn’t want you to find out a whole lot of details ... More >>
Rt Hon Winston Peters Speech: Regions Matter, Experience Matters
Tuesday, 13 October 2020, 12:45 pm | New Zealand First Party
It’s great to be back in Tauranga in the last week of the campaign. As you know, some of us have been here before - and can recall the launch of this establishment. And remember a flying school next door that was struggling to get central government ... More >>
