Winston Peters: "We need kiwi values"

New Zealand First's annual conference has just drawn to a close, and leader Winston Peters made a speech to his audience of near 1000. 

He announced New Zealand First will campaign on making KiwiSaver compulsory, and introduced 10% contributions, which would be compensated by tax cuts. 

All this on top of a potentila new candidate for next year's election - Stuart Nash. 

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'd be now New Zealand's firsts and your conference has
just drawn to a close, and Leader Winston Peters made
a speech to his audience of around one thousand people.
He announced New Zealand First will campaign on making key
We Saber compulsory and introducing ten percent contributions total which
will be compensated for with tax cuts, and all of
this on top of a well a potential new candidate

(00:31):
for next year's election, Stuart Nash. New Zealand First Leader
Winston Peters joins me. Now, good afternoon, Good afternoon. The
Key We Saber announcement is that going to be quite
a quite a chunk for employers and employees to bite
off a total of ten percent contributions.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
It might be because they're going to be compensated with
taste cuds to enable them to do it, seemsly and famously.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Do you know how much that's going to cost?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
You can't kind of find at the moment, because you've
got to work out which ones are on the average
pay in and which ones are paying more, and you've
got to find out who's not involved at all. So
it's difficult to do the analysis. But what you'd be
doing is putting into a fund, which is an asset
management asset purchase fund for the country's interests. You're not

(01:22):
spending it therefore on consumption. You're setting it spending on
production and added value and wealth creation. So to be
sped up an economy.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Do you have a range of costs? How many billion?
Do you think any any rough idea?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Well, look, it's colossal that already in terms of out
kind of the type of thing, not if you compare
for Singapore or DASA, Norway or Denmark. But our fund
is quite big now, and outdoor is to take it
to two or three billion, to two or three one
hundred billion, make it of real size and ensure that
the assets being sold off sure are purchased by ourselves

(01:58):
and kept to you.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
What about this thing about Kiwi values. Look, we're still
digesting the contents of your speech, but there's a think
you mentioned something about getting new immigrants to sign a
document sort of signing up to kei we values. What
would that look like? I mean, how do we explain
what key we values are?

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, we set it out when the previous member of
father Yden Mitchell was in Parliament for New Zealanders. We
set it out that there are certain dudies, it bele
signs should be asked to sign up to. First of all,
I belief in democracy one vote per person, each vote
being equal, the right for freedom of religion, the right

(02:37):
and freedom of worship. These all fundamental things which are
exceptional in our society, not even available in other societies
at all. There's an exception worldwide. So we're saying, set
those vatters out discussing with these zylinders, and ensure those
are coming here actually salute them.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
You mentioned I think that something like thirty percent of
New Zealand residents are actually immigrants. I mean, in terms
of what proportion of those do you think not really
aligned with what we might think of New Zealand values.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
It's proven by the fact that of those who went
overseas recently in them for them we're not even long
term as they were not born in New Zealand, got
residency in the Zealand in Australia. There's your answer.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
There are a few comments about labor during the course
of your speech. Where are you at with ruling in
or at any coalition possibilities with them.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, I don't know why if you asked that question. Well,
because they carry out their campaign. I'm at their campaigning
for a party called the Zeland First and I'm going
to answer the questions about going with Labor. I mean,
the Labor Party proved last time with them that they
dramatically could not be trusted. Hat all evidence for that,
and Hepkins knows it.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
You talked about the politics of race a little bit
and where the Mari Party sits in with the scheme
of things. Do you how are we going to get
over this racial divide that seems to be getting more
entrenched in New Zealand politics.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
We're going to make sure that the racists don't win
and make sure they're not going to be in control.
We don't going to let them have the decision making
in this country unmandated and without the people's authority. That
the one way to stop people like that, But they
don't believe in democracy, we do.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
What what what would key thing would you expect listeners
to take out of your address today? What is there
any overarching sort of theme that you'd like people to
be able to reflect on.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well, it's in their heading and declaring full to fight
for freedom, fight for our values, to fight for a
recovery of a once great democracy and a once great economy,
and to ensure that when we go go forward, the
things that like the flag, that our forebears fought and
died for, are respected and not us. These are the
fundamental things that he's on this value. They never thought

(04:54):
that there would be challenges, and they find that they're
challenge being challenged now at the highest level. They want
changes to that.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
And look, I know that the decision around who your
candidates that the election are will is up the members.
But would you like Stuart Nash to be a candidate
at the next election for New Zealand?

Speaker 3 (05:10):
First look, I think I said publically that it's over
to the organization and to Stuarts that long term anster.
But if he should be a candidate, he would be
It would be a seamless transition to New Zealm.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
First, I'm guessing that I mean your opinion personally, as
Winston Peters and you are you know you are an
influence within the party. Where would you, in your enthusiasm
lies would you would you be encouraging him to declare
his hand on that well.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's up to him and it's up to the party members.
But here's the point. He is a person of considerable intelligence. Yes,
seriously educated, very practical, got a very good, very sound
business background and some serious experience in protests. Now that's
that fits the bill for us. It says over to
the process as to whether he becomes a candid. But

(06:02):
he's somebody who I've been to that I defended in
the past because I thought he was being properly, totally inappropriately.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Trigger Yeah, okay, hey, Winston, I really appreciate your time. Sorry,
we have to cut it short there because we're up
against the news. I really appreciate your time. That is
a New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
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