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Winston Raymond Peters PC (born 11 April 1945) is a New Zealand politician who has been the leader of New Zealand First since it was founded in 1993. He was re-elected for a fifteenth time at the 2023 general election, having previously been a member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 1981, 1984 to 2008 and 2011 to 2020.
4 days ago · The official website of the New Zealand Government, featuring the latest news and updates on Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters. Find out about his recent trips, speeches, statements, and initiatives in the Pacific and beyond.
Oct 16, 2023 · Oct 16, 2023 – 2.56pm. Auckland | One thing’s certain in New Zealand politics – you can never discount Winston Peters. The 78-year-old populist has done it again, leading his New Zealand First...
NZ First leader Winston Peters joins Q+A with Jack Tame for an interview on a range of subjects, including the proposal to build a gang-only prison, co-governance, and donations made to the party.
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In the decades when our country went from the first three, to inside the first 33 in the world, how many times have you heard politicians flimflamming you on how well the country is doing? Instead of marketing wool, they've been pulling it over our eyes. How many times have you heard politicians saying 'we're doing ok'? Or, 'we're not bad for a sma...
New Zealand does not have a good economy anymore. Our economy is about $250 billion. It could be $500 billion on the exponential curve, which established by our forebear's success, we should be. And that $250 billion annual national income is plagued by a serious gap between the rich and the poor. We spend most of our time arguing about how to divi...
A founding principle of New Zealand First is that sound environmentalism is sound economics. Sound environmental policy is everyone's responsibility. Yet this week New Zealanders witnessed ingratitude on a grand scale. This followed hard on our COVID experience when our farming community, and hundreds of thousands that service it, kept our exports ...
From the late 1990's through to 2017 our country pursued an unfocussed, unplanned, incoherent immigration policy with little structure to deal with it. We failed to focus on high living standards to keep our people here, or bring them home from an OE. Anyone who questioned these thoughtless policies was immediately cast as 'racist, xenophobic, or a...
You saw it in export education policy. When we failed to adequately compete with the export education product other nations were delivering, we, to disguise that failure, resorted to permanent residency inducements to bring students here. As someone who negotiated, in Beijing, our export education to the Chinese, the Chinese leadership asked for on...
There was an election in 2020 but repeatedly some party activists keep saying, ad nauseum, that New Zealand First is responsible for the 2020 election of Labour. In 2017 the National Party's attitude was, despite their numerous failures, 'we know how it works, don't you worry your pretty little head about it'. It was not about who the New Zealand F...
Ladies and Gentlemen, New Zealand must go back to mining - mining of our most important asset, our human capital. There are schools in New Zealand that have an attendance level of 35 percent. School attendance is compulsory in our law. The level of truancy in some of our schools today is an utter waste of our young and of our money. Again, in this ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, how many times were you told before 2017 that crime was falling? How many times have you been told that lately? If you apply to crime 'a fish preservation policy' - 'catch and release' - then you will grow the fish stock, and the number of criminals. That's exactly what's been happening. Every day we have shootings in our stre...
New Zealand First is going to ban the wearing of gang patches in public places. Their intimidation and terrorisation of everyday law-abiding New Zealanders must stop and New Zealand First will see to that. We are not going on in this country with unlawful, private armies.
There was once a social contract between government and the people. Began by politicians who understood the importance of parents and caregivers. Today that social contract is in shreds. New Zealand First plans to rebuild it. We know of solo parents, mothers in the main, who have been deserted and facing the scrap heap, but for social welfare. Ther...
The leader of New Zealand First, Winston Peters, criticizes the government's policies on economy, social issues, and environmentalism in his speech to supporters in Christchurch. He argues for a first-in-the-world approach and defends democracy and equality.
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Mar 17, 2024 · Deputy Prime Minister and NZ First leader Winston Peters has delivered his State of the Nation speech on Sunday afternoon.
