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Gangs Exploiting Thin Blue Line
Wednesday, 17 February 2016, 10:56 am | New Zealand First Party
Gangs are exploiting the police’s thin blue line by identifying and moving to areas where police are under-resourced, says New Zealand First Spokesperson on Police and Deputy Leader Ron Mark. More >>
Global Dairy Prices Stem From Bad Trade Agreements
Wednesday, 17 February 2016, 10:41 am | New Zealand First Party
Global Dairy Prices Stem From Bad Trade Agreements New Zealand First is blasting the government for poor quality “free trade” agreements and exposing New Zealand farming to questionable Chinese investment. “How can this government puff out its ... More >>
Refusal to Release Report in ‘Drunk Schoolgirls’ Case
Wednesday, 17 February 2016, 9:31 am | New Zealand First Party
Secrecy still surrounds a case involving degrading acts on young women despite an investigation into police conduct, says New Zealand First. More >>
Crafar Farms Ownership Questionable
Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 3:56 pm | New Zealand First Party
Richard Prosser MP Spokesperson for Primary Industries 16 FEBRUARY 2016 Crafar Farms Ownership Questionable as Partnership Falls Through New Zealand First is calling for removal of the ownership of the former 16 Crafar farms from Shanghai Pengxin ... More >>
National Radio Failing to Deliver for Māori
Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 2:28 pm | New Zealand First Party
Pita Paraone MP Spokesperson for Māori Affairs 16 FEBRUARY 2016 National Radio Failing to Deliver for Māori New Zealand First is supporting calls for an inquiry into the level of dedicated Māori content being broadcast on state-funded radio. ... More >>
Safer Rental Vehicles Thwarted by Government – NZ First
Monday, 15 February 2016, 11:18 am | New Zealand First Party
Safer Rental Vehicles Thwarted by Government – NZ First New Zealanders are being denied the chance to have safer rental vehicles on the nation’s roads by the government and associate transport minister, says New Zealand First. Associate Minister Craig ... More >>
Challenge on Fishing Boat Still Stands
Friday, 12 February 2016, 3:27 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters New Zealand First Leader Member of Parliament for Northland 12 FEBRUARY 2016 Challenge on Fishing Boat Still Stands Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters is advising the Prime Minister that his challenge over his claim on spending ... More >>
Northland Bus Ban Just Petty Bullying
Friday, 12 February 2016, 8:42 am | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters New Zealand First Leader Member of Parliament for Northland 11 FEBRUARY 2016 Northland Bus Ban Just Petty Bullying Banning Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters from a bus was an act of petty bullying by the government, the MP ... More >>
Government Passing Buck on Tourist Drivers
Friday, 12 February 2016, 8:38 am | New Zealand First Party
Denis O’Rourke MP Spokesperson for Transport 11 FEBRUARY 2015 Government Passing Buck on Tourist Drivers The government is passing the buck on tourist drivers falsifying documents to drive on the country’s roads, says New Zealand First. “The government’s ... More >>
Minister Throws Peters Off Bus
Thursday, 11 February 2016, 11:28 am | New Zealand First Party
Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters has been barred from travelling on a school bus today in his electorate. “It’s disgraceful interference in an MP’s work for his constituents,” says Mr Peters. “It is glaringly obvious that the National ... More >>
Silver Carp Not Wanted in NZ – Minister Must Say No
Thursday, 11 February 2016, 8:50 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is urging Conservation Minister Maggie Barry not to approve the introduction of silver carp to a fish farm near Taupo. More >>
Challenge to PM – Prove Your Fishing Story Or Pay Up
Wednesday, 10 February 2016, 5:29 pm | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters New Zealand First Leader Member of Parliament for Northland 10 FEBRUARY 2016 Challenge to PM – Prove Your Fishing Story Or Pay up More >>
Immigration Helps Fuel Aucklnd Housing Bubble
Wednesday, 10 February 2016, 4:39 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is sick and tired of being labelled racist and xenophobic over the Auckland housing crisis, says New Zealand First. More >>
Action Needed Over Woeful Tourist Driving
Wednesday, 10 February 2016, 9:57 am | New Zealand First Party
Alarming reports of tourists driving on the wrong side of the road and overtaking on the yellow lines over the summer show the urgent need for New Zealand First’s bill targeting tourist drivers, says the party. More >>
Super Bowl Screens Live on Free-to-Air TV But Not Kiwi Sport
Tuesday, 9 February 2016, 9:11 am | New Zealand First Party
While the American Super Bowl screens live on TVNZ it’s disappointing there are no signs the state broadcaster will be showing our national sports live anytime soon, says New Zealand First. More >>
PM And Minister Allowed to Duck for Cover
Saturday, 6 February 2016, 2:31 pm | New Zealand First Party
The public can rightly label the Whitehead report a cover-up given it ignored the involvement of the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Malaysian diplomat case, says New Zealand First Leader and Member of Parliament for Northland ... More >>
West Coast Hospital Not a Government Priority
Friday, 5 February 2016, 5:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
West Coasters’ lives are at risk in Grey Base Hospital, which is unsafe, yet the government continues to drag the chain on its redevelopment, says New Zealand First. More >>
Southern’s Appalling Meals a Warning for All DHBS
Friday, 5 February 2016, 10:35 am | New Zealand First Party
Southern District Health Board’s failed outsourcing of kitchen services should be a warning for other DHBs around the country not to follow suit, says New Zealand First. More >>
Top Up White Ribbon Funding Now
Friday, 5 February 2016, 8:43 am | New Zealand First Party
The government should never have allowed the White Ribbon campaign to end up cash-strapped – it needs to front up with money immediately, says New Zealand First. More >>
West Coast Towns Paying Price for Police Underfunding
Thursday, 4 February 2016, 12:50 pm | New Zealand First Party
Pulling police from West Coast towns is a direct result of the government’s frozen police budget, says New Zealand First Police Spokesperson Ron Mark. “Sole-charge police are being lost from Ross and Karamea in a move the police are selling as centralisation ... More >>
