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Turner: CYFS can't close eyes to child prostitutes
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 9:43 am | United Future NZ Party
Most child prostitutes would be known to CYFS - and if they're not, they should be, United Future welfare spokeswoman Judy Turner says. More >>
UF calls on Govt to match flood relief donations
Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 11:30 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future has put a proposal to the Government that it match public donations for the victims of last week's flooding dollar for dollar, on top of any other proposed flood relief programme. More >>
Psychologists, not GPs, for benefit testing
Monday, 23 February 2004, 2:37 pm | United Future NZ Party
Specialist psychologists rather than general practitioners need to be making the diagnoses of psychological problems as sickness and invalid benefits spiral in those categories, United Future's social welfare spokeswoman, Judy Turner, said today. More >>
Dunne: No new entitlements for Maori
Monday, 23 February 2004, 11:40 am | United Future NZ Party
The Government's package to resolve the foreshore and seabed issue will have to make it clear that no new rights or entitlements are being established for Maori, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today. More >>
Marc My Words
Friday, 20 February 2004, 2:40 pm | United Future NZ Party
The sense of safety and security that New Zealanders have come to expect has come under much pressure of late. While the country has been battered and bruised with wind and rain, so too has confidence in the police. Allegations of pack rape, corruption ... More >>
Why are we waiting - still??????
Friday, 20 February 2004, 11:38 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader and Ohariu-Belmont MP Peter Dunne today reiterated his call for urgent action on opening an alternative land route in and out of Wellington. More >>
To 'P' or not to 'P'... that is not the question
Thursday, 19 February 2004, 1:29 pm | United Future NZ Party
"When will this Government start putting its teeth into our ballooning methamphetamine problem instead of throwing its dentures at it," United Future's Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Seek 'good faith' fishing talks with Maori
Thursday, 19 February 2004, 8:45 am | United Future NZ Party
The Government should seek "good faith talks" with Maori on the catching of undersized fish under customary rights sanctioned in fisheries settlements, United Future's Larry Baldock said today. More >>
Greater encouragement for workplace savings
Wednesday, 18 February 2004, 4:18 pm | United Future NZ Party
Although welcoming the Government’s new state sector savings scheme and the appointment of AMP as one of the providers, Gordon Copeland, United Future’s finance spokesperson said today that Government is continuing to neglect a “level playing field” tax regime ... More >>
Low income families in line for $2000 per child
Wednesday, 18 February 2004, 2:31 pm | United Future NZ Party
Low income families may benefit by $2000 a year per child in the next Budget, according to United Future’s finance and revenue spokesman, Gordon Copeland. More >>
Alexander: A padded cell for Nandor, please!
Wednesday, 18 February 2004, 1:21 pm | United Future NZ Party
The fact that Green MP Nandor Tanczos appears to see a 'golden vulture' looming large over New Zealand's correction systems is the point at which the ideological meets the delusional, United Future's Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Dunne points Brash to the future, not the past
Wednesday, 18 February 2004, 11:06 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today cautioned National leader, Don Brash, that the New Zealand voter is looking for policies to guide the country in the future, not hankering for the past. More >>
Turner: Who can back CYFS?
Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 5:31 pm | United Future NZ Party
Government minister Steve Maharey was asked in Parliament today how he could possibly have confidence in CYFS' ability to look after the 4700 children in its care when its charges now regularly die because of procedural breaches and ignored reports ... More >>
Alexander: Drugs programmes great if backed up
Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 3:51 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Government's 15 new Community Action on Youth and Drugs (CAYAD) programmes are an important step forward, but rhetoric on getting tough on suppliers must be matched by action, United Future's Marc Alexander said today. More >>
United Future elects new party President
Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 1:17 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future New Zealand has elected former Wellington Mayor, Mark Blumsky, as party President, after the founding President, Ian ‘Inky’ Tulloch, stood down at the office bearer elections of the United Future Board of Management meeting held ... More >>
Greens replace commonsense with nonsense again!
Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 11:55 am | United Future NZ Party
Nandor Tanczos has replaced common sense with ideology over the private management of prisons, United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Greens Replacing Commonsense With Nonsense Again!
Monday, 16 February 2004, 2:41 pm | United Future NZ Party
Media Statement Sunday 16 February 2004 Greens replacing commonsense with nonsense again! "Nandor Tanczos has replaced commonsense with ideology with regard to private management of prisons", says United Future Law and Order Spokesman Marc ... More >>
Marc My Words - Maori Rights and Wrongs
Friday, 13 February 2004, 11:51 am | United Future NZ Party
This year's Waitangi Day did not celebrate our nation's unity but our dis-unity. The fractured relationship between Maori and non-Maori has plumbed new depths spurred on by both the seabed and foreshore issue and the line in the sand posed by National's ... More >>
UN: Tougher Non-Proliferation Regime Called For
Friday, 13 February 2004, 10:56 am | United Future NZ Party
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency today called for the urgent strengthening of the world's non-proliferation regime to ensure that nuclear materials and even weapons are not acquired by terrorists. More >>
Smith again rejects WOFs for houses
Friday, 13 February 2004, 10:54 am | United Future NZ Party
A Building Industry Federation call for compulsory warrants of fitness for houses needs to be slapped down, United Future's Murray Smith said today. More >>
