1 day ago · New Zealand First Ministers are refusing to back down from comments they made towards immigrant MPs in the House this week. MPs were debating the Prime Minister's statement on Tuesday when Shane Jones yelled "send the Mexicans home" across the floor.. Winston Peters then told Green MPs Lawrence Xu-Nan and Francisco Hernandez to "show some gratitude" for being in New Zealand.

16 hours ago · Ahead of Question Time Peters was also unrepentant, saying Parliament was the sort of place where a lot of things were said, and were often "absolutely overreacted to". He said Mexican Ambassador Alfredo Pérez Bravo had thanked him within the past 48 hours for having visited the country last year, "then I hear this humbug from you guys in the ...

20 hours ago · Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is this afternoon expected to face questions about the conduct of his senior ministers Winston Peters and Shane Jones after they were accused of making ...

2 days ago · Foreign Minister Winston Peters intended to travel to the capital, Tarawa but was advised about a week before his arrival that the President and foreign minister were no longer available to meet ...

Winston Raymond Peters PC ... In February 2022, Peters expressed support for the Convoy 2022 New Zealand protest outside Parliament, which called for an end to vaccine mandates. [154] On 22 February, Peters visited the Parliament protest camp with former New Zealand First Member of Parliament Darroch Ball. He claimed that the mainstream media ...

Peters made the comments to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade select committee as Parliament’s inaugural scrutiny week reached its end, with ministers and officials having endured hours of ...

Dec 6, 2023 · Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Deputy Prime Minister): Mr Speaker, right here, right now, something that the political experts said could never happen is happening. So congratulations to you— SPEAKER: Yeah, what do they know!

Feb 22, 2022 · His visit comes after three police were admitted to hospital after a substance was thrown at them by protesters outside Parliament. The patches are used by menopausal people as a hormone replacement therapy, and some trans women and non-binary people as a gender-affirming hormone therapy.

Dec 18, 2024 · Or worse still, that you're in Parliament, and all of a sudden in December they discover there's a party called his New Zealand First and a leader called Winston Peters. I've been on Morning Report more times in this last two weeks than in the whole year, and as for Checkpoint—never been asked once. I don't think I've been on for four years.

Aug 31, 2023 · The leaders of Labour and Act don’t want to work with him, but his voter support looks to be growing. Mark Jennings sits down with NZ First leader Winston Peters to discuss the polls, social media, and wayward candidates.