{"id":117135,"date":"2025-11-04T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117135\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:58:09","slug":"enough-is-enough-new-zealand-first-wants-to-ban-private-fireworks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117135\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Enough is enough\u2019 \u2013 New Zealand First wants to ban private fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Peters said his party\u2019s Fireworks Prohibition Legislation Bill would stop the retail sale, manufacture and importation of fireworks for private use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Approved public displays would continue, he said.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Winston Peters said the bill aims to prevent fires and protect pets and emergency services. Photo \/ Getty Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Winston Peters said the bill aims to prevent fires and protect pets and emergency services. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is not about being \u2018nanny state\u2019, this is about bringing some common sense into what is a desperately needed conversation about the future of fireworks in our community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMany major retailers have already stopped selling fireworks long ago and there have been calls from across the country to put a stop to the sale of fireworks completely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Peters said the bill was a response to what were hugely predictable and preventable costs for ACC, the huge costs of emergency service call-outs and, most importantly, stopping the effects reckless use of fireworks had on farm animals and family pets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNew Zealand has come to a point where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/letters-how-many-years-have-we-been-debating-a-fireworks-ban\/QILLHOEHYRCUBNG3JQMNKI2PLY\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/letters-how-many-years-have-we-been-debating-a-fireworks-ban\/QILLHOEHYRCUBNG3JQMNKI2PLY\/\">we seriously need to have this conversation and debate.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peters said his party\u2019s Fireworks Prohibition Legislation Bill would stop the retail sale, manufacture and importation of fireworks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16188,1060,23966,33841,1888,42,185,117,43,1136,16189,61,40,38,41,39,14638,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-117135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-anneke","9":"tag-ban","10":"tag-enough","11":"tag-fireworks","12":"tag-first","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-is","15":"tag-new","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-private","18":"tag-smith","19":"tag-to","20":"tag-top-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topnews","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-wants","25":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}