"We preside over a solutions-focused, future-orientated Government rooted in tangible facts and not spurious economic theory."
He then took aim at the unions, asking what they were doing in the nine years National was in power.
"While conditions of much of the workforce deteriorated under the previous Government for nine-long years with stagnated wages and a rising cost of living getting out of control, we didn't see enough action from you," he said to unionists.
"Now … we are being attacked by the union movement in this country? You can have your views but I'm here to say standing in the middle of the [political] spectrum, that it won't work.
"And I say that as someone who was a union delegate."
Peters also took credit for the minimum wage increases so far delivered and promised by the Government.
"It is not our coalition partner' policy, it's ours – unlike Shane Jones, I won't ask you to start cheering now."
The Government increased the minimum wage to $17.70 this year and it will rise to $18.90 next year, before hitting $20 an hour in 2021.
Speaking to media after his speech, he said New Zealanders had his party to thank for that increase.
In fact, he revealed that New Zealand First had gone to a much higher figure than Labour campaigned on.
"You will not find anyone arguing that it wasn't us that set the higher figure."
He would not, however, reveal what the figure NZ First was lobbying for during the 2017 coalition negotiations.
"But where it was set in the end was a NZ First requirement."
The Fair Pay Agreement legislation is still being hammered out in Parliament.
Asked if the Fair Pay legislation would be in place before the 2020 election, Peters said: "We will have an answer for you in a matter of months".
