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October Highlights from New Zealand
First
October marked two years since the 2023 general election, where you
returned us back to parliament. And the month certainly wasn’t lacking
in more updates on New Zealand First achievements.
The
woke ‘Relationship and Sexuality Guidelines’ have been removed
from the school curriculum and have been replaced with a curriculum
that actually educates, not indoctrinates.
We campaigned on it.
We scrapped the old guidelines.
We replaced them. Promise kept.
We passed our amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area
Act.
This has been highly anticipated – make sure you read Casey’s
update HERE,
or watch her full speech in the house HERE.
We
promised to amend the Building Act and the Resource Consent system
to make it easier to build granny flats or other small structures up
to 60m2, requiring only an engineer’s report.
In fact, we over delivered. Our original commitment stated 60m2 but
we decided that didn’t go far enough. The dwellings can be up to
70m2.
We
took a stand on behalf of New Zealand against Fonterra’s move to
sell iconic dairy brands Mainland, Anchor, Kapiti and others to the
French firm Lactalis.
“Do not sling mud at our democracy and our legacy, and do not
for one minute suggest that only cis white men can succeed. Neither
our race or our sexual identity is relevant. We succeed because of the
content of our character. We succeed because we stand up, because we
show up, and we do the hard work that needs to be done every single
day.”
We called out the absurdity of a departing Green MP, in a spectacular
speech by Hon Casey Costello. This is one to watch!
We called out the flip
flopping of Labour’s Capital Gains Tax policy announcement, right
after they announced their
rip-off of New Zealand First’s Future Fund policy.
Winston often says that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
but it might be time for Labour to come up with something original –
or at least understand
how their own policy ideas work!
And finally, the
Labour leader worked out what a woman is…..
Party Leader Winston Peters hit the headlines when his home was
attacked by protestors who decided to distribute his address on a live
social media video. The
hypocrisy of the Green party’s links with these protestors was not
missed.
Hear from Winston in some of his recent interviews:
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