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Friend,
On 18 July 1993, a political movement was born, not out of
political fashion or elite favour, but from the fire of conviction. A
movement that has never bent the knee. A party forged in the belief
that the people of
this country, not the bureaucrats, not the globalist
grifters, and not the Beltway peacocks, should determine our
future.
New Zealand First turned 32 this week. And as we
mark this milestone, we’re not looking backwards with nostalgia, we’re
looking forward with determination.
Because the truth is this: New Zealand is at a fork in the
road.
Do we continue down the path of division, dependency, and luxury
beliefs pushed by Te Pāti Māori, Labour and the Greens? Or do we give
the change New Zealand First has instigated the opportunity to gain
momentum?
Do we stand tall, dig in, and restore security (economic security,
energy security, and social security) for every New Zealander?
A Second Term is not a luxury. It’s a
necessity
When voters sent us back to Parliament in 2023, it wasn’t for show.
It was because they were tired of being dictated to. Tired of being
smeared for believing in common sense. Tired of watching their towns
hollowed out while politicians in Wellington played ideological
dress-up.
We promised to be the circuit breaker. And we’re delivering:
✅ A Member’s Bill to restore the primacy of the New Zealand
flag
✅ Standing up for parents’ rights in our schools
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Defending resource industries against green hysteria
✅ Protecting
the use of cash
✅ Putting the brakes on wasteful spending
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Championing law and order
✅ And we’re restoring respect for hard
work, sovereignty, and economic sanity
But one term is not enough to reverse the damage
wrought by Labour and their eco-zealot friends. And the forces we’re
fighting - cancel culture, regulatory overreach, foreign dependencies,
and smug, Wellington-centric complacency - aren’t going quietly.
This is a battle for our future
Every week I travel our great country and hear the same things in
the halls of our marae, the tables of our pubs, the break rooms of our
factories, and the boardrooms of our regional businesses...
Kiwis are sick of the spin. They’re tired of their values and needs
being ignored. And they’re turning to us because we’re the
only ones telling the truth with a belly of conviction, never
kowtowing, and refusing to bow to the elite agenda.
We’ve stood in the storm. I’ve stood (literally) next to Jacinda
Ardern despairing as she gutted the oil and gas sector in Taranaki,
knowing it would hammer regional prosperity. I didn’t agree then, and
I don’t now. That was economic vandalism disguised as virtue.
We’ve been mocked for it - more focus on my puku than my politics,
as my wife says - but we’ve stayed the course.
And now we must take action to reverse the course Labour put us
on:
❌ Diminished export revenue
❌ Fragile energy resilience
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Fed up local ratepayers
❌ Capital flight - investment fled and
regional New Zealand is paying the price
This wasn’t just policy failure, it’s cultural decay. And we are
fighting it.
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