Manufacturers

16
May
16 May 2013

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.

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

New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters’ Reserve Bank bill was again drawn from the Members’ Bill Ballot today.

11
Mar
11 March 2013
10.15am, Otago Museum, 419 Great King st, North Dunedin

Rt Hon Winston Peters and Andrew Williams will be attending the hearings as part of the Manufacturing Inquiry in Dunedin at the Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, North Dunedin

28
Feb
28 February 2013

Sometimes you are stopped in your tracks and left momentarily speechless by things you hear or read.

26
Feb
26 February 2013

New Zealand First says Prime Minister John Key is living in Lala Land if he believes that the popularity of the NZ dollar with currency speculators is proof of our economy doing well.

18
Feb
18 February 2013

Andrew Williams will be attending the Third Manufacturing Inquiry hearing on Monday 18 February 2013 at South Lounge, Mt Smart Stadium, Beasley Ave, Penrose, Auckland, from 10.00 am to 4.30 pm.

31
Jan
31 January 2013

New Zealand First knows it. Manufacturers and exporters know it. And today the Reserve Bank confirmed it – our seriously overvalued dollar is damaging the economy.

28
Jan
28 January 2013
Parliament

New Zealand First MPs will be attending the first hearing of the Parliamentary Inquiry into Manufacturing.

18
Dec
18 December 2012

New Zealand First says today’s Treasury forecast paints a black future of increasing unemployment, a rise in social welfare spending, more public sector cuts, and an economy floundering under a hi