Displaying items by tag: NZ FIRST

OPINION: NZ First knows its market and feeds it a constant diet of how ‘good’ the good old days were, promising to resurrect policies and icons of a bygone era.

The battle for the rural vote is on and parties are securing high profile names to try and bolster their chances at the general election.

OPINION: Every time politicians come up with an investment scheme where they're going to have a crack at 'picking winners' with our money, the Hound cringes.

OPINION: The latest travel receipts for MPs are in (April – June 2024).

OPINION: Your canine crusader was truly impressed by the almost unanimous support given by politicians of all stripes in Parliament to the recent passing of legislation for the NZ/EU free trade deal.

OPINION: The election run-up is on and things are getting nasty.

OPINION: A mate of this old mutt's almost choked on his dog tucker when he came across the musings of former NZ First MP and newly elected Otago Feds chair Mark Patterson.

Your old mate reckons plenty of the current crop of MPs in Parliament would struggle to read, let alone make laws for this country.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters got more than he bargained for at a recent Waikato Federated Farmers annual meeting.

Silver Fern Farm's 6000 farmer shareholders could be in the gun for millions of dollars in penalty payments and costs if the company's proposed merger is not settled by June 30.