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Damning Internal Report on Rural Mental Health
Tuesday, 17 May 2016, 4:15 pm | New Zealand First Party
Information released to New Zealand First paints a damning picture of mental health and addiction services in rural New Zealand, says New Zealand First. More >>
Bleak Day for Many in Regions as Power Prices Look To Rise
Tuesday, 17 May 2016, 1:20 pm | New Zealand First Party
As predicted, many in regional NZ are likely to be slammed with higher power charges to guarantee profits and fat salaries of big energy companies and the Electricity Authority, says New Zealand First. More >>
Tougher Sentencing of Foreign Drivers Overdue
Tuesday, 17 May 2016, 11:37 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is calling for tougher sentencing of foreign drivers causing fatal accidents. More >>
4000 Child Sex Abuse Convictions in Last 10 Years
Tuesday, 17 May 2016, 11:35 am | New Zealand First Party
There has been a staggering 4,000 child sex abuse convictions in New Zealand over the last decade with no signs of it slowing down, says New Zealand First. More >>
Fears Oil Spill Lessons Won’t Be Passed to Other Ports
Monday, 16 May 2016, 5:04 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is worried valuable lessons from the Mobil oil spill in Tauranga will not lead to improvements around the country. More >>
NZ Youth Justice System An Abject Failure
Monday, 16 May 2016, 2:03 pm | New Zealand First Party
Figures obtained by New Zealand First show the abject failure of our youth justice system and the reason why our adult prisons are full to capacity, says New Zealand First. More >>
Unfair Regions Bear Burden Of Power Price Changes
Monday, 16 May 2016, 12:56 pm | New Zealand First Party
It’s unacceptable Regional New Zealand is likely to be on the sharp end of the Electricity Authority’s proposed price changes for getting electricity from the national grid, says New Zealand First. More >>
Minister Has Immediate Opportunity to Back up Her Words
Monday, 16 May 2016, 9:00 am | New Zealand First Party
When Parliament sits again on May 24 the government will be able to use a New Zealand First bill to show their commitment to combatting corruption, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland Member of Parliament, Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
Government’s Funding to Tourist Towns Drop in Bucket
Friday, 13 May 2016, 4:10 pm | New Zealand First Party
Ron Mark MP New Zealand First Spokesperson for Local Government 13 MAY 2016 Government’s Funding to Tourist Towns Drop in Bucket More >>
National Government Takes A Deep Swipe At Southerners
Friday, 13 May 2016, 4:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
The passing of The New Zealand Public Health and Disability (Southern DHB) Elections Act in Parliament this week shows an utter disregard toward southerners’ democratic rights, says New Zealand First. More >>
Speech by Winston Peters at the House of Lords
Friday, 13 May 2016, 11:33 am | New Zealand First Party
Brexit To leave or to stay in the EU is for the British people to decide. In what appears as a raging internal debate, there nevertheless is a vast audience of outsiders who are carefully watching, assessing the arguments for and against and contemplating ... More >>
Great Opportunity For Brits If Leave EU
Friday, 13 May 2016, 11:31 am | New Zealand First Party
To leave or stay in the EU is for the British people to decide, but they also have a chance to link up with the dynamic economic powerhouse of the Commonwealth, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland Member of Parliament, Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
Wimpy Response by Minister Over Velvetleaf
Thursday, 12 May 2016, 5:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
The government is waving a white flag over the serious incursion of the invasive weed velvetleaf which has spread from four sites last year to over 219 today, says New Zealand First. More >>
Release Highlights Need for Open Public Register
Thursday, 12 May 2016, 1:44 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is calling on the government to make its proposed child sex offenders register open to the public as residents of West Auckland fear for their children’s safety over the release of Ronald Van der Plaat back into their community . More >>
Key Runs From Questions on ‘Dodgy’ Companies
Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 5:25 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand’s name is being dragged through the mud by dodgy bottom-feeding firms that are sheltering indicted criminals, money launderers and even gun runners, says New Zealand First. More >>
National Denies Solution for Southland DHB
Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 2:47 pm | New Zealand First Party
Democracy in New Zealand took another hit from the government in Parliament on Tuesday night, says New Zealand First. More >>
Data on Foreign Buying of Houses a Work of Fiction
Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 12:41 pm | New Zealand First Party
John Key’s government must think New Zealanders are complete idiots on foreign buying of NZ houses, says New Zealand First Housing Spokesperson Denis O’Rourke. More >>
Meat Trade Deal Hands Prime Serving of Profits to Chinese
Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 12:39 pm | New Zealand First Party
Kiwi farmers and meat companies have been misled over the government’s much touted meat trade deal with China which will hand profits over to the Chinese, says New Zealand First. More >>
Out of Touch on Drop in Prison Staffing
Tuesday, 10 May 2016, 4:41 pm | New Zealand First Party
The government is out of touch with the fact prison staffing is at unworkable levels for safety, says New Zealand First. More >>
Speech to House of Lords
Tuesday, 10 May 2016, 2:55 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader and Member of Parliament for Northland Rt Hon Winston Peters will give an address at a venue in the House of Lords at 10am, May 12 (UK time). More >>
