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United Future NZ Party - Latest News [Page 110]

Dunne: Radical threats on NZ beaches a disgrace

Monday, 8 December 2003, 11:50 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader, Peter Dunne, says threats by some fringe radical elements to occupy beaches over the holiday season in support of Maori claims to the foreshore and seabed are disgraceful and must be rejected by the Government. More >>

Marc My Words: Eat Your Greens

Friday, 5 December 2003, 12:52 am | United Future NZ Party

Marc My Words. From Marc Alexander MP. 5 December 2003 United Future NZ-Christchurch Supplement More >>

Dunne: ERA Changes Another Outbreak Of Pink Think

Thursday, 4 December 2003, 6:55 pm | United Future NZ Party

"Oh dear, more 'pink think' in the place of sensible employment law," United Future leader Peter Dunne said today in response to Labour's proposed changes to the Employment Relations Act. More >>

Dunne: Smith Turns Aqua Into Sour Grapes

Thursday, 4 December 2003, 6:50 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader Peter Dunne today slammed National MP Nick Smith's lame attempt to compare the Resource Management (Waitaki Catchment) Amendment Bill with the 1982 Clyde Dam legislation. More >>

Alexander: Why reward deadbeat parents?

Thursday, 4 December 2003, 4:47 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future's Marc Alexander today asked Associate Revenue Minister David Cunliffe if the Government would wipe the personal debt of parents who support their children, given that it is going to wipe some of the child support owed by non-custodial parents ... More >>

Copeland welcomes unchanged OCR

Thursday, 4 December 2003, 1:06 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future finance spokesperson Gordon Copeland today welcomed the decision of Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard to leave the Official Cash Rate unchanged at 5%. More >>

Smith: Clean Slate Bill 'Mandate To Lie'

Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 3:14 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future justice spokesman Murray Smith has slammed the Government's Clean Slate Bill as a "mandate to lie". More >>

School success defeats dopy debate

Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 11:16 am | United Future NZ Party

Ohariu-Belmont MP, Peter Dunne, says he won’t be attending tonight’s cannabis debate in the electorate between Progressive leader, Jim Anderton, and Green MP, Nandor Tanczos, ''because I’m more interested in celebrating the success of my constituents ... More >>

Copeland backs call to rename airport

Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 12:59 am | United Future NZ Party

Miramar resident and United Future MP Gordon Copeland today backed calls to rename Wellington airport “Peter Jackson Airport”. More >>

Turner puts Opposition minds to rest

Tuesday, 2 December 2003, 4:52 pm | United Future NZ Party

It was confirmed in Parliament today that United Future and Labour have successfully negotiated amendments to the Families Commission Bill definitively removing any prospect of gangs being construed as families "by even the most fevered of Opposition ... More >>

Turner: Family breakdown - you do the maths!

Tuesday, 2 December 2003, 4:32 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future's family affairs spokeswoman Judy Turner today challenged Opposition critics of the four-year $28 million budget for the Families Commission to compare it to the $5 billion to $6 billion family breakdown costs this country each year. More >>

Opposition just doesn't get it - kids come first!

Tuesday, 2 December 2003, 4:27 pm | United Future NZ Party

Opposition parties continue to be fixated on family definitions that would serve only to exclude the tens of thousands of children who don't happen to live in 'mum, dad and two kids' families, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today as the Families ... More >>

Alexander applauds anti-child porn law

Tuesday, 2 December 2003, 2:42 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future's Marc Alexander today welcomed new legislation being introduced to Parliament to tighten penalties for child pornography traders and amend censorship law. More >>

Alexander Speech: Nelson Property Investors Assn

Friday, 28 November 2003, 8:46 am | United Future NZ Party

I would like to begin by thanking the Nelson Property Investors Association members for giving me the opportunity to speak to you about landlord and tenancy issues. More >>

Dunne: Nandor sinks to new pro-cannabis low

Thursday, 27 November 2003, 10:27 am | United Future NZ Party

Nandor Tanczos's call yesterday for police to ease up on cannabis law enforcement and concentrate on the drug P was a new height in hypocrisy and a new low in unprincipled opportunism, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today. More >>

Alexander: Women's refuges fill, get real about P

Tuesday, 25 November 2003, 2:27 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander today renewed his call for a clamp-down on the gangs distributing the drug P, as women's refuges run out of room for the victims of P-fuelled violence. More >>

Adams: Road safety campaigns ‘all wrong’

Tuesday, 25 November 2003, 1:37 pm | United Future NZ Party

Auckland-based United Future MP Paul Adams today lashed out at the emphasis on speed reduction as a major part of trying to reduce the national road toll. More >>

Alexander: Women's refuges fill, get real about P

Tuesday, 25 November 2003, 10:41 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander today renewed his call for a clamp-down on the gangs distributing the drug P, as women's refuges run out of room for the victims of P-fuelled violence. More >>

United Future and Outdoor Recreation sign MOU

Monday, 24 November 2003, 9:42 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader, Peter Dunne, and the chairman of the Council of Outdoor Recreation New Zealand, Paul Check, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding which aims at seeing the two parties jointly contesting the 2005 general election under the United ... More >>

Turner gives spurned submitters a voice

Thursday, 20 November 2003, 5:08 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future family affairs spokeswoman Judy Turner today saluted the 58 Families Commission Bill submitters spurned by the Opposition parties in the select committee process. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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