The worst aspect of the Budget is the Government’s plan to keep selling state assets to fund programmes that should be paid from taxation and other government income streams.
Jobs
16
May
16 May 2013
16
May
16 May 2013
New Zealand First says the Budget does little to help struggling New Zealanders off the treadmill of high costs and low wages and uses asset sales to blur the real state of the economy.
16
May
16 May 2013
Mr Speaker –our first reaction to this Budget is to call in the Serious Fraud Office.
Never in the history of this country has a government so blatantly cooked the books.
15
May
15 May 2013
I take a call on behalf of New Zealand First, and I ask the question: what do New Zealanders want from the Budget? That is the big question—what do New Zealanders want from the Budget?
With Andrew Williams
2
May
02 May 2013
The sale of 14,000 hectares of forestry to China shows the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) continues to rubber stamp away the future of thousands of New Zealanders.
19
Apr
19 April 2013
Speech: Horowhenua Grey Power Public Meeting
War Memorial Hall, Chamberlain Street, Levin
Friday 19 April, 2pm
Don’t Take It Any More!
18
Apr
18 April 2013
New Zealand First says the Government needs to explain why it is issuing temporary work visas for supermarket workers at a time of record high unemployment.
With Asenati Lole-Taylor
Tagged: Employment, Jobs
10
Apr
10 April 2013
Government plans to close all hospital kitchens across the country would be a kick in the teeth to provincial New Zealand which is being ignored by the Government.
With Barbara Stewart
8
Apr
08 April 2013
Speech: Christchurch Businessmen’s Club
The Canterbury Club, Cambridge Tce.
Monday 8 April, 1.15pm
Manufacturing Matters
28
Mar
28 March 2013
New Zealand First says the impact of up to 1230 jobs to be cut at Telecom is an economic death rattle for the Government’s failed employment strategy.
With Barbara Stewart