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Paying the Price for “Johnny-Come-Lately” Attitude

Monday, 2 May 2016, 1:50 pm | New Zealand First Party

Provincial New Zealanders are paying the price for Fonterra’s “Johnny-come-lately” attitude to value-added products, says New Zealand First. More >>

Silver Fern Farms U-Turn Must Halt OIO Decision

Monday, 2 May 2016, 1:42 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand’s largest meat exporter, Silver Fern Farms, has spectacularly backed down after a shareholder revolt and will now seek a special shareholder meeting to approve its sale to Chinese SOE, Shanghai Maling. More >>

Silver Fern Farms Must Come Clean on Its Real Finances

Monday, 2 May 2016, 1:40 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First is again asking serious questions over why the new special resolution on the proposed sale of our largest meat exporter to Chinese SOE, Shanghai Maling, is based upon a document that has been seriously challenged. More >>

Record Immigration is Fuelling Housing Market

Monday, 2 May 2016, 9:32 am | New Zealand First Party

Commentators are tripping over themselves to explain the causes of the Auckland housing crisis – but they are avoiding the patently obvious, says New Zealand First. More >>

Kiwis Lose Out as More Land Goes to Foreigners

Friday, 29 April 2016, 3:51 pm | New Zealand First Party

It’s not just Auckland houses being snapped up by foreign money - sales of large tracts of New Zealand land to foreigners continue unabated, says New Zealand First. More >>

Govt’s Rumoured Cuts to Insulation Bitter Blow for Northland

Friday, 29 April 2016, 3:48 pm | New Zealand First Party

The health of Northland’s most vulnerable citizens will suffer if the government cuts the home insulation scheme, Homes Te Tai Tokerau, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland Member of Parliament, Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>

Govt Happy to Watch Exodus From Provincial NZ

Friday, 29 April 2016, 3:33 pm | New Zealand First Party

A rise in unemployment numbers in Greymouth typifies what is happening in the regions under this government, says New Zealand First today. More >>

Fire Service Needs Far More Govt Support

Friday, 29 April 2016, 3:31 pm | New Zealand First Party

The Fire Service will remain underfunded regardless of announcements made by the government today, says New Zealand First. More >>

Key’s Hands All Over Murky Foreign Trusts

Friday, 29 April 2016, 12:56 pm | New Zealand First Party

New Zealanders will be bitterly disappointed that their Prime Minister has been condoning foreigners’ use of NZ as a place to hide away their wealth, says New Zealand First. More >>

Private Insurance Needed to Ease Public Health Burden

Thursday, 28 April 2016, 11:35 am | New Zealand First Party

New Zealanders need a fairer go to get private health treatment, says New Zealand First. More >>

Time for Straight Talk

Thursday, 28 April 2016, 11:32 am | New Zealand First Party

In its typical bland and hedged way today’s Reserve Bank announcement points to the proliferating risks facing the New Zealand economy from both international and domestic conditions, says New Zealand First Leader and MP for Northland Rt Hon Winston ... More >>

Call for Taskforce Green Workers to Continue Search for Pest

Wednesday, 27 April 2016, 2:27 pm | New Zealand First Party

In light of reports that the Ministry for Primary Industries has pulled support for the search for velvet leaf, New Zealand First is calling on Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy to use Enhanced Taskforce Green (ETFG) workers to continue ... More >>

Shareholder Revolt Over Silver Fern Farms China Sale

Wednesday, 27 April 2016, 12:51 pm | New Zealand First Party

Silver Fern Farms Board has been caught misleading the media by claiming that shareholders had no concerns while it was being petitioned for a Special Annual General Meeting regarding its proposed sale to Shanghai Maling. More >>

Common Tourist Visas with Australia Unlikely

Wednesday, 27 April 2016, 10:34 am | New Zealand First Party

Rt Hon Winston Peters New Zealand First Leader Member of Parliament for Northland 27 APRIL 2016 Common Tourist Visas with Australia Unlikely A common tourist visa with Australia is almost as likely as Australia ignoring our weak record on migration ... More >>

Kiwirail Review Waste of Time And Money

Wednesday, 27 April 2016, 9:43 am | New Zealand First Party

Predictably the 2014 KiwiRail review released today is a total waste of time and money, says New Zealand First Leader and MP for Northland Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>

PM No.1 in Selling Off Our Houses And Land

Monday, 25 April 2016, 8:01 pm | New Zealand First Party

Prime Minister John Key is the country’s number one salesman, not of exports, but of our land and property, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>

Speech: Peters - Anzac Day

Monday, 25 April 2016, 2:17 pm | New Zealand First Party

ANZAC Day Service Kerikeri RSA 10 am, 25 April 2016 “How We Should Remember Them” Wars and the effects of wars live with us. New Zealand like many other nations is remembering the so called war to end all wars –World War One. In August 2014 we ... More >>