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Dunne: Only UF Gives Single-Income Families Choice
Monday, 3 May 2004, 4:14 pm | United Future NZ Party
The plight of single-income families, such as the Gilbert family featured in yesterday's Sunday Star Times special feature, simply highlights the fact that United Future is the only party prepared to stand up for the New Zealand family, party leader Peter ... More >>
United Future abstains from Te Tai Hauauru
Monday, 3 May 2004, 2:38 pm | United Future NZ Party
The board of the United Future party decided at its meeting in Wellington today not to stand a candidate in the upcoming by-election in Te Tai Hauauru. More >>
Dunne: Why is Labour shafting Wellington?
Monday, 3 May 2004, 12:17 am | United Future NZ Party
Today’s comments on the Wellington region’s inadequate transport infrastructure by two Labour Cabinet Ministers is further evidence that the Labour Party is interested solely in the votes of Aucklanders and couldn’t care less about the people of the ... More >>
Marc My Words - Friday 30 April - Civil Unions
Friday, 30 April 2004, 2:14 pm | United Future NZ Party
This week the column is somewhat lengthy, but given the interest the Civil Union Bill has worked up both on talk-back and in the press, I have taken the liberty of advancing something more than a sound bite's worth of consideration. As always your ... More >>
Turner: New regime would work where CYFS fails
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 1:56 pm | United Future NZ Party
The case of a 14-year-old girl with drug and alcohol problems, whose parents were "quite literally crying out for CYFS help to prevent her becoming just another tragic statistic", More >>
Still no action on sickness and invalid benefits
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 10:22 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Judy Turner today voiced dismay at the lack of Government on the surge in numbers of those on sickness and invalid benefits means they outnumber those on the dole. More >>
Students should not have to borrow to live
Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 2:01 pm | United Future NZ Party
The news that student debt has soared to $7 billion today is a landmark that no government should be proud of, according to United Future leader Peter Dunne More >>
Copeland celebrates new wood product export market
Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 1:29 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future’s forestry spokesman, Gordon Copeland, says months of lobbying and behind-the-scenes hard work has finally paid off, with the removal of the final barriers to a potentially lucrative industry of exporting manuka and kanuka woodchips and ... More >>
Marc My Words
Monday, 26 April 2004, 10:24 am | United Future NZ Party
What the 'State-meant' meant to state The most in-depth research yet done on the opinions of New Zealanders on the economy, which was released on 18 April, reveals a mixed bag of sloppy thinking tempered by a growing but begrudging respect for the ... More >>
Reclaiming outdoors from tree-huggers' embrace
Monday, 26 April 2004, 12:53 am | United Future NZ Party
Green issues belong to all New Zealanders, and not just the tree-huggers who have hijacked them, United Future leader Peter Dunne told a one-day outdoor recreation, conservation and environment symposium in Nelson today. More >>
Dunne: NZ First attack shows Winston’s weakness
Monday, 26 April 2004, 12:05 am | United Future NZ Party
The personal attack on me by New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, merely demonstrates how acutely aware he is of the appalling shambles he made in his only attempt at being part of a stable, responsible Government, United Future leader, Peter Dunne, ... More >>
Pharmac has 40,000 reasons to move carefully
Friday, 23 April 2004, 2:08 pm | United Future NZ Party
Pharmac must put the health of 40,000 New Zealanders ahead of financial concerns, United Future's Judy Turner said today as specialists express their fears about a move to discontinue funding of the cholesterol-lowering drug, Lipitor, in favour ... More >>
United Future leads the way to stable government
Friday, 23 April 2004, 12:10 am | United Future NZ Party
Today, Friday, April 23, 2004, is a hugely significant day in the history of MMP politics and stable government in New Zealand, according to United Future leader, Peter Dunne. More >>
Marc My Words
Friday, 23 April 2004, 12:09 am | United Future NZ Party
What the 'State-meant' meant to state The most in-depth research yet done on the opinions of New Zealanders on the economy, which was released on 18 April, reveals a mixed bag of sloppy thinking tempered by a growing but begrudging respect for the ... More >>
Exporters should not bear the cost of border sec.
Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 4:59 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Gordon Copeland today expressed delight that the Government may be reconsidering its proposed cost recovery levy of $8 million on exporters for the new security measures arising from the Border Security Bill and the war on terrorism. More >>
Dunne: ‘Greater’ Wellington should change its name
Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 9:54 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader and Ohariu-Belmont MP, Peter Dunne, says the Greater Wellington regional council has let itself and the Wellington region down badly by its dithering and wavering over support for the Transmission Gully motorway project. More >>
Coral-Ellen's killer should face burglary charges
Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 12:53 am | United Future NZ Party
There is no reason in the world why Coral-Ellen Burrows' killer, Stephen Williams, should have been let off burglary charges, United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Baldock: Suspend moth-spraying immediately
Monday, 19 April 2004, 2:10 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Larry Baldock, who was a prime mover behind securing the Wellington School of Medicine study into the health impacts of the West Auckland painted apple moth spray campaign, today called for the campaign to be suspended immediately, pending ... More >>
Dunne: Transmission Gully’s time has come!
Monday, 19 April 2004, 1:27 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader and Ohariu-Belmont MP, Peter Dunne, tonight called for the dithering over the proposed Transmission Gully motorway route north of Wellington to come to a screeching halt and for work to begin to make it a reality. More >>
Marc My Words: The Crimson Tide Is Turning Blue
Friday, 16 April 2004, 3:54 pm | United Future NZ Party
Politics, like firearms, can either be used to protect people or to enslave them - particularly when it comes to how we live as opposed to how we should live. After a year and a half, I have come to the conclusion that governments are a necessary ... More >>
