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Alexander on Sensible Sentencing cross-party call

Wednesday, 26 February 2003, 6:14 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future MP Marc Alexander has welcomed a Sensible Sentencing Trust call for a cross-party criminal justice group, telling Parliament today that it was an idea whose "time had come". More >>

Former rally champ MP's car stolen

Wednesday, 26 February 2003, 1:47 pm | United Future NZ Party

Former NZ rally champion and United Future MP Paul Adams had his car stolen from outside his Browns Bay, Auckland, home early yesterday. More >>

Where's the 'M' word gone, asks Copeland

Wednesday, 26 February 2003, 1:47 pm | United Future NZ Party

In raising the financial disadvantage of widowed spouses under current superannuation legislation, United Future MP Gordon Copeland criticised Labour and National for expunging the word 'marriage' from their manifestoes. More >>

Let's get Kiwis saving for retirement

Tuesday, 25 February 2003, 5:01 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future finance spokesman Gordon Copeland today again urged the Government to bring in tax incentives to encourage New Zealanders to save for their retirement. More >>

Backing Super Fund for NZ's sake: Copeland

Tuesday, 25 February 2003, 5:00 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future has formally advised the Government of its support for Finance Minister Michael Cullen's NZ Superannuation Fund, established to pre-fund a proportion of the huge bulge in benefits that will hit New Zealand from 2020 on. More >>

Dunne: Polarised UN needs middle way

Tuesday, 25 February 2003, 4:51 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader, Peter Dunne, says the United Nations Security Council is not being offered realistic options for settling the Iraq crisis. More >>

Adams: Govt 'on notice' over Holidays Bill

Tuesday, 25 February 2003, 4:50 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future's today supported the First Reading of the Holidays Bill, but put the Government on notice that it must make sure that the Select Committee process irons out flaws that would hit the business community. More >>

United Future: Tamihere deserves to be heard

Tuesday, 25 February 2003, 9:27 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader, Peter Dunne, today backed Youth Affairs Minister, John Tamihere, and his outspoken views on the New Zealand welfare system. More >>

Bow-tied Dunne backs muscular dystrophy campaign

Monday, 24 February 2003, 4:53 pm | United Future NZ Party

Parliament's most distinguished habitual wearer of bowties, United Future leader, Peter Dunne, today swung in behind this week's awareness campaign being run by the Muscular Dystrophy Association of New Zealand. More >>

Marc My Words...

Friday, 21 February 2003, 2:56 pm | United Future NZ Party

The Prostitution Reform Bill passed the second reading in Parliament last Wednesday by the slimmest of margins (56 to 62). Those who believe that prostitutes are free agents exercising their right to sell their bodies in a transaction not that much ... More >>

1080 consultation a sham, says Baldock

Thursday, 20 February 2003, 5:59 pm | United Future NZ Party

The fact that Ngati Naho, Federated Farmers, and professional and recreational hunters are protesting Saturday's proposed 1080 poison aerial blitz of the Waikato's Whangamarino Wetlands just two days out, makes a mockery of the consultation processes of the ... More >>

Correcting NZ First: Adams against Prostitution

Thursday, 20 February 2003, 5:58 pm | United Future NZ Party

New Zealand First MPs need to count a little more carefully, United Future MP Paul Adams said today in responding to their inaccurate claim that they were the only North Shore MPs to vote against the Prostitution Reform Bill last night. More >>

Copeland supports Geary's view

Thursday, 20 February 2003, 5:57 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future MP Gordon Copeland today expressed his delight that Norman Geary, CEO of Air NZ between 1982 and 1989 and former Chairman of the Tourism Board has made a strong submission to the Commerce Commission opposing the proposed alliance between ... More >>

Baldock: Council decision proves Maori ward folly

Thursday, 20 February 2003, 3:53 pm | United Future NZ Party

Gisborne City Council's decision to reject the Maori ward provision in the new Local Government Act is proof of the folly of that part of the Act, United Future's local government spokesman Larry Baldock said today. More >>

Prostitution Bill on the ropes, says Baldock

Thursday, 20 February 2003, 11:55 am | United Future NZ Party

The Prostitution Reform Bill is close to being defeated, United Future MP Larry Baldock said today. More >>

Land Transport Summit - Hon Peter Dunne

Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 9:12 pm | United Future NZ Party

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for the invitation to discuss with you one of the most serious issues confronting New Zealand at the present time. More >>

Dunne corrects news report on conscience vote

Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 9:49 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader, Peter Dunne, today corrected an erroneous news report concerning voting on the Prostitution Reform Bill. More >>

Adams: Clamp down on 'pocket-money' booze

Tuesday, 18 February 2003, 3:18 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future youth affairs spokesman Paul Adams today challenged the Government to clamp down on the "pocket-money alcohol" that has fuelled many drunken teenage rampages. More >>

United Future reaffirms Iraq stance

Tuesday, 18 February 2003, 10:38 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader, Peter Dunne, today reaffirmed the party's complete opposition to an invasion of Iraq. More >>

Continuous Disclosure & Securities Markets Act

Monday, 17 February 2003, 4:34 pm | United Future NZ Party

The Bill leading to this new Act had a fairly rocky path through Parliament in November but was finally enacted to take effect from 1 December 2002. Probably the most controversial part of the bill was that relating to the continuous disclosure regime. I would like ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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