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Lower age limit for student allowances
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 3:52 pm | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture is celebrating with students and parents across the country the changes to student allowance eligibility that will see more allowances and less debt for thousands of students, says UnitedFuture education spokesperson Judy Turner. More >>
Turner: Yay for grandparents!!
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 3:51 pm | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture is delighted that the government has finally chosen to respond to the needs of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren in New Zealand and has closed the gap between kinship caregivers and foster parents in the money paid for child support. More >>
Turner delighted at barcode funding
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 3:50 pm | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture health spokesperson Judy Turner is welcoming today’s Budget announcement of $11.9 million over four years for the ‘barcode project’ aimed at improving patient safety in hospitals. More >>
Tax cuts – a start at long last
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 3:48 pm | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne says the tax cuts announced in today’s Budget are long overdue. More >>
UF celebrates education win - at long last
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 1:36 pm | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne says today's announcement of a significant boost to schools' operational funding is a long-overdue and welcome outcome to something his party has been demanding for the past four years. More >>
UF announces Mangere candidate
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 9:34 am | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture’s candidate for the hotly-contested Mangere electorate in Auckland at the general election was today named as Pulotu Selio Solomon More >>
UF announces more candidates
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 9:33 am | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture president Denise Krum today announced a second tranche of candidates to carry the party banner into this year’s general election. More >>
$8.8 million to support best practice prescribing
Monday, 19 May 2008, 9:57 am | United Future NZ Party
Associate Minister of Health Peter Dunne today announced an $8.8 million investment in the development and ongoing maintenance of a national electronic medicines formulary* over the next four years. More >>
Dunne: Households vital for ETS and biofuels
Friday, 16 May 2008, 9:58 am | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne says the party’s future support of both the Emissions Trading Scheme and the biofuels legislation currently before Parliament hinge on the issue of the impact on household budgets. More >>
Personal tax adjustment logical from business cuts
Friday, 16 May 2008, 12:14 am | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne says the tax reduction programme in next week’s Budget is a direct consequence of the UnitedFuture-driven business tax cuts announced in last year’s Budget. More >>
Dunne demands full ETS household costs
Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 10:27 am | United Future NZ Party
It is time the government told New Zealand households the full story about what the Emissions Trading Scheme will cost them, says UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne. More >>
Dunne seeks household compo for ETS costs
Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 9:23 am | United Future NZ Party
The government’s decision to delay the introduction of transport into the emissions trading regime is a welcome but essentially kneejerk reaction, according to UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne. More >>
Turner releases UF health policy
Friday, 2 May 2008, 10:03 am | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture deputy leader Judy Turner says there are glaring deficiencies in the New Zealand health system that need urgent fixing up – and UnitedFuture’s health policy will do just that. More >>
Dunne seeks rational debate on ETS
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 3:51 pm | United Future NZ Party
As the flood of conflicting reports on the likely financial effects of an emissions trading scheme turns into a tsunami, UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne says New Zealand urgently needs an intelligent, and intelligible, debate on the ETS. More >>
Dunne: NZ needs broadband, not bickering
Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 5:11 pm | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne says the future of New Zealand needs a vastly improved broadband infrastructure, not the current bout of political bickering. More >>
Turner: special needs funding inadequate
Monday, 21 April 2008, 2:31 pm | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture deputy leader Judy Turner says locking special needs pupils in school toilets until they calm down is just not on. More >>
Turner backs ‘core values’ education in schools
Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 11:54 am | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture education spokesperson Judy Turner is backing the call of the Principal Youth Court Judge for ‘core community values’ to be taught and discussed in schools. More >>
Dunne on Tongariro tragedy
Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 10:50 am | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne has expressed his shock at the drownings in the central North Island. “My colleagues and I would like to extend our deepest sympathies to the families of those who have died. More >>
All Parliamentary party conference required on EFA
Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 10:09 am | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne says it is time for an all Parliamentary party conference to sort out the problems now becoming apparent with the Electoral Finance Act. More >>
Turner backs call for detox centres
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 9:20 am | United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture health spokesperson Judy Turner is backing the call from the Police Association for detoxification centres to be provided for drunken people taken into custody by police. More >>
