Chris Lynch: Peters vows to ‘break up power companies’ and blasts ‘woke agenda’

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has used his State of the Nation address in Tauranga to lay out a hard edged election pitch, promising to restructure the electricity market, reject global influence, and take direct aim at Labour, the Greens, unions and what he called a growing “woke agenda”.

Speaking at the Atrium Conference Centre on Sunday afternoon, Peters said New Zealand was facing a period of global instability not seen in generations.