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Alexander: Green light for black hole for Maori TV
Wednesday, 30 April 2003, 9:04 am | United Future NZ Party
The Maori Television Services Bill came a step closer to becoming a disaster for the New Zealand taxpayer when it completed the select committee stage today, United Future broadcasting spokesman Marc Alexander said. More >>
Copeland: Amend Conservation Act 'straitjacket'
Tuesday, 29 April 2003, 3:44 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future energy spokesman Gordon Copeland today called on the Government to amend the Conservation Act to get hydro-power schemes up and running so New Zealand doesn't keep facing power crises every few years. More >>
Alexander: Private prisons work - end of story!
Tuesday, 29 April 2003, 11:30 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander today accused the Government of putting ideology before common sense in opposing privately run prisons. More >>
Brothel-keeping and pimping should remain illegal
Monday, 28 April 2003, 2:11 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Gordon Copeland believes that brothel keeping, procuring and pimping should remain illegal in New Zealand. More >>
Peter Dunne - Anzac Day Message 2003
Friday, 25 April 2003, 11:16 am | United Future NZ Party
The brave New Zealand soldiers who fought at Gallipoli have left a "legacy of unfailing courage" that continues to shape and inspire New Zealand today, United Future leader Peter Dunne has said in an Anzac Day message. More >>
United Future welcomes interest rate cut
Thursday, 24 April 2003, 12:56 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future finance spokesman Gordon Copeland today welcomed the Reserve Bank decision to cut the official cash rate by 25 base points. More >>
Dunne: NZ needs five million people by 2015
Thursday, 24 April 2003, 12:54 am | United Future NZ Party
New Zealand's population today reached four million, but the Government should set a target of five million by 2015, United Future leader Peter Dunne said. More >>
Child death figures highlight families in need
Tuesday, 22 April 2003, 4:05 pm | United Future NZ Party
Figures showing that all but one of 38 New Zealand children killed between 1998 and 2001 died at the hands of someone in their family circle, are further evidence that the Government must put families at the centre of its thinking, United Future's family ... More >>
Baldock slams 'selective' GM opponents
Thursday, 17 April 2003, 5:41 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future environment spokesman, Larry Baldock, has described the papers released by the Government today relating to the effects of genetic modification technology on the New Zealand economy as perfectly sensible and based on quite rigorous scientific ... More >>
Turner: No public money for 'lifestyle' caesars
Thursday, 17 April 2003, 12:25 am | United Future NZ Party
New Zealand's stretched health dollar should not be spent on lifestyle caesarean births, United Future health spokeswoman Judy Turner said today. More >>
RIP Aotearoa TV 1997; RIP Maori TV 2004?
Thursday, 17 April 2003, 12:06 am | United Future NZ Party
There's no rhyme nor reason to Labour's support of Maori television, United Future's broadcasting spokesman Marc Alexander said today. "And it is most certainly not, as Broadcasting Minister Steve Maharey seems to think, one of the 'most exciting ... More >>
MTV Policy is like the Charge of the Light Brigade
Thursday, 17 April 2003, 12:03 am | United Future NZ Party
It´s obvious that there´s no rhyme nor reason to Labour´s policy on Maori TV. If the same determination to forge ahead despite overwhelming evidence that it cannot succeed were applied to any other facet of life we´d shake our heads! More >>
Copeland seeks Dobson hydro review
Wednesday, 16 April 2003, 3:17 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's energy spokesman Gordon Copeland today called on the Government to consider establishing an arbitration mechanism concerning Conservation Minister Chris Carter's decision to can the Dobson hydro-electricity scheme on the West Coast. More >>
Dunne highlights legal anomaly
Wednesday, 16 April 2003, 9:20 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future New Zealand leader, Peter Dunne, is seeking a law change to protect underage children from sexual advances by older women. More >>
Mainland Report - Vol. 6
Monday, 14 April 2003, 4:05 pm | United Future NZ Party
Welcome to another edition of The Mainland Report. My apologies for its lateness but due to my travel to the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Chile, it was a simple case of not enough hours in the day. More >>
Reforming the United Nations
Monday, 14 April 2003, 4:03 pm | United Future NZ Party
After the failure of the United Nations and the diplomatic process to resolve the Iraq crisis, many are leaping to the extreme conclusion of writing off the United Nations as an effective guarantor of international peace and security. In doing so ... More >>
Maori TV should have the same future as the Moa
Monday, 14 April 2003, 1:28 pm | United Future NZ Party
"The latest audit on accounting practices of Aroha Films Ltd is just another nail in the coffin of Maori TV," says United Future broadcasting spokesman Marc Alexander. More >>
Why isn't anyone listening? The answer is obvious
Friday, 11 April 2003, 3:20 pm | United Future NZ Party
If we're serious about reducing violent offending, we must take a more aggressive approach to our criminal justice system. It's obvious that while harsher sentencing for violent crimes is justified, unless that is backed up with faster judicial processes, ... More >>
Dunne to Air NZ: start doing your job
Friday, 11 April 2003, 11:14 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future New Zealand leader, Peter Dunne, today called on Air New Zealand to stop wasting taxpayers' money in its continued pursuit of an anti-competitive merger with Qantas. More >>
Rejection of Air NZ-Qantas proposal welcomed
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 12:23 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future welcomes today's decision by the Commerce Commission and its finding that the Air New Zealand - Qantas proposal is fundamentally inconsistent with the principle of free and open competition. More >>
