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Documentary makes valid point on evidence flaws
Friday, 13 February 2004, 9:44 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future justice spokesman Murray Smith today agreed with the makers of the documentary on convicted double murderer John Barlow that there are inadequacies in the evidence given in criminal trials and wants greater disclosure on the part ... More >>
Turner: CYFS - is there anything left to save?
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 5:49 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future family affairs spokeswoman Judy Turner today asked the Government how the public could possibly have confidence in CYFS when it totally failed to implement September 2002 call centre recommendations that could have saved the life of murdered ... More >>
Alexander: Listen to hard-working cops
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 5:46 pm | United Future NZ Party
When the very people who have to enforce the law on young offenders say it isn't working, it's time for the Government to wake up and smell the coffee, United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander said today. More >>
UF will keep fighting for more for roading
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 4:25 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future transport spokesman Larry Baldock has pledged that the party will continue to press the Government to divert even more of the fuel excise tax to roading than the three cents a litre it won for motorists last year. More >>
Dunne seeks bi-partisan foreshore talks
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 10:29 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today called for top-level talks between the Prime Minister and National’s Dr Don Brash over the foreshore and seabed issue so that progress can be made involving the greatest possible number of New Zealanders. More >>
Alexander: 'Pink Think' Behind Jail Blind Spot
Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 3:57 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Marc Alexander today congratulated Corrections Minister Paul Swain for benchmarking New Zealand's prisons against those of other countries, and promptly invited him to extend that comparison to the performance of the private Auckland ... More >>
United delighted by family assistance package
Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 2:06 pm | United Future NZ Party
Under questioning from United Future’s revenue spokesperson Gordon Copeland, Finance Minister Michael Cullen today revealed that the family assistance package, which will be a centrepiece of this year’s Budget, will total around $1 billion per annum ... More >>
Copeland – Things The PM Did Not Say!
Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 2:03 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future finance and revenue spokesperson Gordon Copeland has pointed out the things the Prime Minister did not say in her Statement to the House on the resumption of Parliament. More >>
Baldock: Putting a cap on environmental overkill
Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 11:37 am | United Future NZ Party
Conservation Minister Chris Carter's immediate 'lock up the hinterlands' reaction to the near-disastrous Milford Sounds diesel spill gave a worrying insight into the Government's "fear-based" approach to conservation issues, United Future's ... More >>
GST off rates - a tax cut that makes senses
Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 8:37 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future local government spokesman Larry Baldock echoed party leader Peter Dunne's call for the removal of GST on rates today. More >>
Dunne calls for national identity
Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 4:31 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today called for a much greater effort to be put into establishing a true sense of New Zealand nationhood. More >>
Copeland: Tax reward for volunteers
Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 2:25 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future spokesperson on the charitable and voluntary sector Gordon Copeland today urged the Government to give a tax rebate to volunteers. More >>
Adams: Bogus solution when Govt is the problem
Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 10:30 am | United Future NZ Party
The Government's new book and website telling small business how to cut through red tape is a classic case of creating the problem and selling the solution, United Future's commerce spokesman Paul Adams said today. More >>
Smith: Brash's colonialism betrays his ignorance
Monday, 9 February 2004, 2:03 pm | United Future NZ Party
Don Brash's comments on the Treaty of Waitangi and on Maori portray the blindness of a colonialist mentality and simply demonstrate his ignorance of the fundamentals of the Treaty of Waitangi, United Future's Maori issues spokesman, Murray Smith, ... More >>
Dunne on Oz-US FTA
Monday, 9 February 2004, 1:59 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne commented today "If the detail of the FTA between Canberra and Washington is as reported, then it demonstrates that the USA is still unwilling to make an honest commitment to the principles of free trade. More >>
Turner: Team effort on domestic violence
Monday, 9 February 2004, 11:24 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Judy Turner today supported a police call for domestic violence to be tackled at all levels. More >>
Dunne resubmits New Zealand Day Bill
Thursday, 5 February 2004, 1:41 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne will shortly re-submit his New Zealand Day Bill to Parliament as a Member’s Bill “because events of last week and today show there’s a crying need for a national day that will unite and not divide New Zealanders”. More >>
Marc My Words: Welfare 'Aint Always Fair'!
Wednesday, 4 February 2004, 4:12 pm | United Future NZ Party
Welcome to the first 'Marc my Words' for 2004. As with all issues, feedback is important and I look forward to your comments and suggestions. If there are topical issues you would like to raise, I will be pleased to hear from you. Although the year is ... More >>
Alexander: 'If in doubt, let them out' fails again
Wednesday, 4 February 2004, 10:48 am | United Future NZ Party
The case of a paroled child killer facing sex charges six months after his release is just the latest indictment of the Parole Board's 'if in doubt, let them out' philosophy, United Future's Marc Alexander said today. More >>
TVNZ 'bullying' a threat to right to complain
Wednesday, 4 February 2004, 9:24 am | United Future NZ Party
TVNZ's High Court action to overturn a Broadcasting Standards Association ruling comes "dangerously close to outright corporate bullying and is a real threat to the right of citizens and small interest groups to make legitimate complaints", ... More >>
