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National Believes It Can Ignore Flag Change Opposition
Friday, 20 November 2015, 8:35 am | New Zealand First Party
The government plans to ride roughshod over opposition to the flag referendum process, the Finance Minister Bill English confirmed in Parliament today. More >>
Peters: opening the Mattamore Building, Meadow Mushrooms
Thursday, 19 November 2015, 5:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
It is a genuine pleasure to be at a 100 per cent New Zealand-owned success story, which Meadow Mushrooms is. We need many more companies like this if we are to have that brighter future we all hope for. More >>
Health Minister Denies Northland DHB Budget Blowout
Thursday, 19 November 2015, 11:03 am | New Zealand First Party
19 NOVEMBER 2015 HEALTH MINISTER DENIES NORTHLAND DHB BUDGET BLOWOUT New Zealand First is calling on the government to come clean on the state of Northland District Health Board. In Parliament, Minister of Health Jonathan Coleman denied there had ... More >>
PM Uses Absurd Excuse
Thursday, 19 November 2015, 10:19 am | New Zealand First Party
Prime Minister John Key has absurdly blamed other political parties for his failure to tighten rules around foreigners buying land and businesses, says New Zealand First. More >>
NZ First Tribute To Jonah Lomu
Wednesday, 18 November 2015, 1:31 pm | New Zealand First Party
As Muhammad Ali was to boxing, Jonah was to rugby, says New Zealand First Leader and Member of Parliament for Northland Rt Hon Winston Peters. More >>
English Persists with Dodgy Youth Unemployment Stats
Tuesday, 17 November 2015, 4:38 pm | New Zealand First Party
Finance Minister Bill English should stop misleading the public with bogus youth unemployment numbers, says New Zealand First. More >>
Jobs for the Boys And Girls – When is It Going to End?
Tuesday, 17 November 2015, 8:36 am | New Zealand First Party
The after-Parliament gravy train continues to steam ahead for former National MPs and Cabinet ministers, says New Zealand First. More >>
Fonterra Millionnaires Club Needs a Rocket
Monday, 16 November 2015, 5:14 pm | New Zealand First Party
Fonterra’s 22-strong “millionaires club” of managers needs a big serve from its board after belatedly realising branded products and food service is the way to go, says New Zealand First Leader and Member of Parliament for Northland Rt Hon ... More >>
Next Global Dairy Trade Likely to Be a Big Fall – Peters
Monday, 16 November 2015, 1:21 pm | New Zealand First Party
A third consecutive fall in GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) is likely early Wednesday morning, raising fears that this season is taking a bad turn for the worse. More >>
Events in Paris, a Serious Matter for New Zealand
Sunday, 15 November 2015, 6:38 pm | New Zealand First Party
It is a pleasure to address this public meeting here at Point Chevalier. At the outset, let’s thank the organisers of this meeting for their hard work and also our many New Zealand First supporters in Auckland. More >>
No Christmas Cheer as Hospital Parking Revenue Soars
Friday, 13 November 2015, 10:20 am | New Zealand First Party
Hard-pressed hospitals are so financially stressed that parking revenue is needed to plug National’s funding shortfall, says New Zealand First. “Last financial year, the seven District Health Boards that charge for parking, raked in $15.1 million. ... More >>
Too Much Ideology in National’s Energy Policy
Friday, 13 November 2015, 8:54 am | New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters Member of Parliament for Northland New Zealand First Leader 12 NOVEMER 2015 Speech to Energy Trusts of NZ Spring Conference Copthorne Hotel, Waitangi, Bay of Islands 7pm, 12th November, 2015 Too Much Ideology in National’s ... More >>
Debate Needed on Aussie Deportation Law
Thursday, 12 November 2015, 5:30 pm | New Zealand First Party
Australia is getting away with blue murder with its Draconian deportation laws in which visa holders have been convicted of a crime punishable by a year or more in prison, says New Zealand First Spokesperson on Justice Denis O’Rourke. More >>
Government’s Youth Unemployment Numbers Dodgy
Thursday, 12 November 2015, 4:56 pm | New Zealand First Party
Facts and statistics are being twisted by the government to convince the public that youth unemployment is dropping, says New Zealand First. More >>
Top up Rescue Helicopter Funding Shortfall
Thursday, 12 November 2015, 3:23 pm | New Zealand First Party
Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters is calling on the government to pick up the tab for the huge shortfall in funding for the region’s rescue helicopter. More >>
Māori TV in Breach of Treaty Over Firing Receptionists
Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 5:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
Pita Paraone MP Spokesperson for Maori Affairs Spokesperson for Treaty of Waitangi Issues 11 NOVEMBER 2015 Māori TV in Breach of Treaty Over Firing Receptionists More >>
Bill Requires Parent Migrants to Hold Health Insurance
Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 3:40 pm | New Zealand First Party
Eighty thousand migrants over 50 years of age have settled in New Zealand in the past 15 years, with full rights to use the public health system. More >>
Armistice Day Motion Blocked By National’s Simon Bridges
Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 2:51 pm | New Zealand First Party
The National Party has blocked a non-debatable motion marking Armistice Day, on the last parliamentary sitting day that it falls upon during WW1’s centennial. More >>
Polytechs Merger Shortchanges Regional Students
Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 2:35 pm | New Zealand First Party
Regional New Zealand is taking another hit from the government with the merger of Aoraki Polytechnic in Timaru and Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, says New Zealand First. More >>
Putting Wood First Creates Work And Jobs
Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 11:50 am | New Zealand First Party
The innovative wood design of the new ACC building in Rotorua is a great example to New Zealand’s commercial construction industry of what can be achieved under Rotorua Lake Council’s Wood First policy, says New Zealand First More >>
