Rt Hon Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First 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
Helen Houghton, (Christchurch) Co-Leader New Conservative Ted Johnston, BSc BA LLB (Auckland) Co-Leader New Conservative New Conservative is very concerned that the Beehive’s elected representatives arrogantly turned their backs on ‘citizen’s rights’ protesters. Thousands of protestors, opposing government mandates for vaccination, converged on parliament yesterday. They came to
The Government’s state house developer Kainga Ora has removed more homes from its stock in the past six months than it built, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. According to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development’s Government Housing Dashboard, between July and December last year, Kainga
Dr Christine Clark Kalandra Bob McCoskrie Family First The petition “Don’t Divide Us.nz” which has 87,269 signatures will be tabled in Parliament tomorrow. The petition which was launched at the beginning of November last year says: “We oppose the ‘no jab no job’ policy, which will create
New Conservative Where was the Mainstream Media yesterday? My wife and I took our caravan to Gulf Harbour for a night on Saturday night. After walking some trails in Shakespear Regional Park we headed home at around 4 pm Sunday. We reached State Highway 1 and discovered traffic was thick
Given the Government has listened to National’s policy to end MIQ for vaccinated travellers and recognised the importance of rapid tests, National is proposing more ideas to improve the response to Omicron, says National’s COVID-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop. “Today, National is releasing our 10-point plan for the
Labour’s housing policies have failed and Kiwis are paying the price with soaring housing costs and a new threat of retrograde price controls, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. In an increasingly desperate game of policy whack-a-mole, Associate Housing Minister Poto Williams yesterday said rent controls are under
The reopening of our border is welcome news for millions of New Zealanders offshore and at home, Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon says. “National has been calling for the Government to end the lottery of human misery that is MIQ and we are pleased that New Zealanders offshore now have some
New Zealanders are getting poorer under the Labour Government with wage growth figures of 2.6 per cent trailing well behind inflation of 5.9 per cent, National’s Finance spokesperson Simon Bridges says. “The figures released today show that real incomes are going backwards. More and more people simply
The Government’s plan to impose a new tax on every worker and business in the country could not come at a worse time, Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon says. “With prices growing twice as fast as wages, Kiwi families are worse off than they were 12 months ago under Labour.
We need a new strategy to safely steer New Zealand through the Omicron wave and out of endless restrictions, Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon says. “The Omicron variant has arrived and case numbers are set to increase rapidly in the coming weeks and months. The situation has changed so it is
Yet another immigration train-wreck is seeing nurses forced to leave the country for lengthy periods of time to attempt to secure a visa for their loved ones, at a time when Omicron cases are growing, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “After pressure from National, in early 2021 the
At a time when supply chains are already frayed, the Government’s inaction on border class exceptions for time-critical workers could have an impact on food production and distribution in New Zealand, National Leader Christopher Luxon says. “Workers for the grain harvest are needed here in February, but because of
The Government’s confiscation of rapid antigen tests ordered by the private sector has gone from bad to worse, National’s COVID-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Businesses who have had rapid tests seized by the Government have been told that they will not be able to get access to their
New Zealand First Media “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 Zealand First. “It will only add
The Government’s lack of preparation for Omicron has unnecessarily put New Zealand in a worse position than we needed to be, National Leader Christopher Luxon says. “Rather than spending the last month urgently boosting as many people as possible, rolling out vaccinations for 5–11-year-olds and buying stocks of
