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United Future seeks foreshore views
Friday, 12 September 2003, 9:36 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, says the party's MPs are eager to hear from all New Zealanders what they think about who owns the country's foreshores sand seabeds. More >>
Ogilvy: Put independent schools more level field
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 8:55 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Bernie Ogilvy today backed the Independent Schools of New Zealand call for all schools to be funded at a more equitable per-pupil level. More >>
'Star' treatment of McDonald not justice
Tuesday, 9 September 2003, 5:26 pm | United Future NZ Party
Former TV3 newsreader Darren McDonald's eight-month jail sentence for two charges relating to supplying drugs today prompted United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander to ask if the new Sentencing Act is being properly used. More >>
Alexander: Net gambling not UF's doing
Tuesday, 9 September 2003, 4:05 pm | United Future NZ Party
Key among United Future's contributions to the Gambling Bill currently before Parliament are the strengthening of mechanisms for helping problem gamblers, MP Marc Alexander said in Parliament today. More >>
Copeland: Oz decision good for Air NZ
Tuesday, 9 September 2003, 2:05 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future finance spokesman Gordon Copeland says the Australian competition watchdog's decision to reject the proposed alliance of Qantas and Air New Zealand is great news for the Kiwi airline and New Zealand travellers. More >>
Lifting the GE Moratorium
Monday, 8 September 2003, 10:57 pm | United Future NZ Party
On 29 October this year the moratorium on applications for the commercial release of genetically modified organisms will automatically expire. United Future supports this development because we believe that allowing the practical application and development ... More >>
Focus on Fatherhood draws attention abroad
Monday, 8 September 2003, 10:30 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP and men's issues champion Marc Alexander is delighted that Parenting Week in Christchurch is drawing attention from across the Tasman with ABC Television sending a film crew from Sydney. More >>
Marc My Words
Friday, 5 September 2003, 10:07 am | United Future NZ Party
Political correctness is that grey cloud of haunting fear that someone somewhere may be having fun! More >>
Labour's fuzzy logic, your fuzzy picture
Friday, 5 September 2003, 12:48 am | United Future NZ Party
The Government's fixation with broadcasting Maori television from the BCL platform means tens of thousands of Sky subscribers and VCR users may suffer interference problems, United Future's Marc Alexander says. More >>
Dunne corrects NZ Herald columnist errors
Thursday, 4 September 2003, 10:44 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, has corrected numerous errors in today's column by Garth George in the NZ Herald. More >>
Copeland urges interest rate cut
Wednesday, 3 September 2003, 4:56 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future finance spokesman Gordon Copeland today called on Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard to further cut interest rates in tomorrow's monetary policy statement. More >>
Dunne: UF delivers Gambling Bill aces
Wednesday, 3 September 2003, 4:54 pm | United Future NZ Party
Gambling profits raised in local communities will go back to those communities after United Future negotiations with the Government put paid to the idea of centralised distribution and the whole new bureaucracy that it would have required. More >>
Baldock delighted way clear on spray health probe
Wednesday, 3 September 2003, 4:50 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Larry Baldock is delighted submissions can now be made on the health effects of the painted apple moth after the Wellington School of Medicine obtained ethical clearance for a study on the health effects of the West Auckland spray campaign. More >>
Peter Dunne Speech to Parnell Rotary Club
Wednesday, 3 September 2003, 8:30 am | United Future NZ Party
English PM Harold Wilson once said that a week is a long time in politics, but a year seems to have flown by. More >>
UF backs probing Whenuapai as second airport
Tuesday, 2 September 2003, 5:27 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Government should seriously review its plan to dispose of Whenuapai airbase, and look at transforming it into a second Auckland airport, United Future said today. More >>
Clark right to bag the Greens
Tuesday, 2 September 2003, 9:19 am | United Future NZ Party
The Prime Minister is entirely right to point out that the Green Party is inherently incapable of working in an MMP political environment, according to United Future leader, Peter Dunne, today. More >>
Young squeezed out of buoyant housing market
Monday, 1 September 2003, 1:58 pm | United Future NZ Party
First home buyers are increasingly being shut out of the New Zealand housing market and consigned to the long term rental of homes owned by other people, according to United Future Revenue spokesperson Gordon Copeland. More >>
Copeland seeks fairer tax deal for super funds
Friday, 29 August 2003, 2:46 pm | United Future NZ Party
Government moves to cut the tax on employer contributions to super funds have it half right, United Future's Gordon Copeland says. More >>
We've given 'birth' to yet another stupidity!
Friday, 29 August 2003, 2:33 pm | United Future NZ Party
While our own citizens queue up for life-saving and 'quality of life' medical procedures, the elderly are put on hold for treatments and those with breast cancer wait in line for radiation therapy, taxpayers are footing the bill for nationals of other countries ... More >>
Smith: Lesbian 'dads' on way out
Wednesday, 27 August 2003, 5:46 pm | United Future NZ Party
Lesbian 'dads' will be gone from the Care of Children Bill after much lobbying from United Future, MP Murray Smith said today. More >>
