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Dunne on Waitangi Day
Wednesday, 4 February 2004, 12:56 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today re-issued his consistent call for New Zealand to celebrate its nationhood in an inclusive, rather than divisive, way. More >>
United Future sets policy goals for 2004
Tuesday, 3 February 2004, 2:20 pm | United Future NZ Party
Getting rid of GST on rates emerged as one of the significant policy goals set by the United Future caucus at its first retreat for 2004, which ended at Wallaceville in Upper Hutt today. More >>
UF: Give students a fair go
Tuesday, 3 February 2004, 10:36 am | United Future NZ Party
The Government has to give students and their parents a financial break and stop treating people in their mid-twenties as children for student allowance purposes, United Future leader Peter Dunne and education spokesman Bernie Ogilvy said today. More >>
Where is National on property rights?
Friday, 30 January 2004, 3:57 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Gordon Copeland today expressed surprise that National Party leader Don Brash has committed his party to the revocation of any customary titles issued to Maori under the Government’s foreshore and seabed proposals. More >>
Dunne backs social outcomes reporting
Friday, 30 January 2004, 2:41 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne said today he was encouraged to hear the Government wants future governments to report social as well as economic outcomes, when it reports on the state of the nation. More >>
Ogilvy: Clear demand for character education
Friday, 30 January 2004, 9:45 am | United Future NZ Party
Integrated schools are turning students away because parents want "character education" for their children and can't get it from the State school system, United Future education spokesman Bernie Ogilvy said today. More >>
Baldock: Hut and track users must have say
Friday, 30 January 2004, 9:44 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future conservation spokesman Larry Baldock today urged trampers, hunters, fishers and others to make last-minute submissions on the Department of Conservation's review of outdoor facilities such as huts and tracks, if they haven't already. More >>
Analysis: Don Brash’s approach to Treaty issues
Friday, 30 January 2004, 12:56 am | United Future NZ Party
The Treaty of Waitangi is exactly that, i.e. a treaty, a word defined in the dictionary as ''a formal agreement between two or more states''. It is not a partnership and the use of that word is therefore, in my opinion, unhelpful. More >>
Smith: Opportunity lost with Hutt schools
Thursday, 29 January 2004, 2:12 pm | United Future NZ Party
Hutt Valley-based United Future MP Murray Smith says that the Education Minister Trevor Mallard's proposal to close Pinehaven School and have Silverstream School continue on both sites is a lost opportunity to take an innovative approach that ... More >>
Time for forestry to get its act together
Thursday, 29 January 2004, 1:04 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future forestry spokesperson Gordon Copeland has written to the Minister for Trade Negotiations Jim Sutton and the Minister for Economic Development Jim Anderton renewing calls for New Zealand forest owners to create a ''single desk'' for log ... More >>
Turner: Making children's health a priority
Thursday, 29 January 2004, 11:11 am | United Future NZ Party
The Wairarapa District Health Board's booklet on children's health is a step in the right direction, but first responsibility for a child's health lies with its parents and guardians, United Future's Judy Turner said today. More >>
Focus needs to shift from grievance to development
Wednesday, 28 January 2004, 10:27 am | United Future NZ Party
The National Party needs to shift its mind-set from grievance to development, Progressive Party leader, Jim Anderton, said today. More >>
Adams scorns Government’s sex drive
Tuesday, 27 January 2004, 5:03 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future commerce spokesman Paul Adams MP today poured scorn on the Government’s “pathetic” attempt to show it was in touch with small business by visiting a Wellington sex shop proprietor. More >>
United Future Calls For Whole Teaching Rethink
Monday, 26 January 2004, 3:40 pm | United Future NZ Party
With schools returning this week short some 270 teachers nationwide, the Government needs to go back to the drawing board on the whole issue of recruiting and retaining teachers, United Future leader Peter Dunne and education spokesman Bernie Ogilvy ... More >>
Dunne applauds belated Green support
Monday, 26 January 2004, 1:57 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today applauded the Green Party for signing up to a ‘waste-free New Zealand’ policy that he announced 14 years ago. More >>
Smith: Pressure defendants to testify
Friday, 23 January 2004, 1:16 pm | United Future NZ Party
While not opposed to the Government suggestion of 11-1 jury verdicts, United Future justice spokesman Murray Smith today said applying pressure on defendants to give evidence would have far more impact on cutting the number of hung juries. More >>
Nandor defends dopey drivers
Friday, 23 January 2004, 12:55 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne said today it was fascinating to watch the Pavlovian response of the Greens’ drug advocate, Nandor Tanczos, to any suggestion that the police might crack down on dope-smokers. More >>
Copeland: Greens off-track in power price debate
Thursday, 22 January 2004, 3:32 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future energy spokesman, Gordon Copeland, today called for sensible and realistic debate over power price rises. More >>
Alexander: Kurariki decision the right one
Thursday, 22 January 2004, 1:34 pm | United Future NZ Party
Keeping New Zealand's youngest convicted killer, Bailey Junior Kurariki, behind bars was the right decision as it was important that the age of an offender in such a serious crime did not become a licence for leniency, United Future's Marc Alexander ... More >>
Jail contract makes mockery of Govt position
Thursday, 22 January 2004, 11:53 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Marc Alexander today challenged the Government to justify its ongoing opposition to a private remand prison while prisoners can now take up $500,000 construction contracts to build upmarket Auckland apartment complexes. More >>
