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Copeland urges extension to 1080 reassessment
Monday, 6 November 2006, 4:02 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Gordon Copeland has today sent a letter to the Environmental Risk Management Authority requesting an extension of the submission period for the reassessment of 1080 poison. More >>
Rates Inquiry Doesn't Go Far Enough
Wednesday, 1 November 2006, 6:01 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, says the independent inquiry into local government rates does not go far enough, and looks likely to be a waste of time. More >>
Turner: Labour talk is cheap on foster care
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 1:17 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader Judy Turner is critical of the Labour-led Government's lack of action in properly looking after foster carers and kinship carers, while claiming to pay 'tribute' to caregivers as New Zealand marks Foster Care Awareness ... More >>
Turner: Labour talk is cheap on foster care
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 12:47 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader Judy Turner is critical of the Labour-led Government's lack of action in properly looking after foster carers and kinship carers, while claiming to pay 'tribute' to caregivers as New Zealand marks Foster Care Awareness ... More >>
Turner: international students need special care
Monday, 30 October 2006, 10:41 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader Judy Turner today called on the Government to invest more and better resources in the pastoral care of international students who come to New Zealand. More >>
Copeland: Mortgage diversions popular
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:27 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future finance spokesperson Gordon Copeland says National MP Craig Foss has confused two different mortgage diversion schemes and should read all the papers associated with Kiwi Saver and mortgage diversion before commenting. More >>
Was the election spending furore necessary?
Friday, 27 October 2006, 3:23 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Gordon Copeland is suggesting the recent prolonged row over use of Parliamentary funds for electioneering may never have happened, if the police had decided to prosecute the Labour Party over its pledge card spending. More >>
Turner: work support schemes should be mandatory
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 5:12 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader and spokesperson for social development, Judy Turner, today welcomed the “Work Focussed Support” announcement by Social Development Minister, David Benson-Pope, but wants it made tougher. More >>
Regional humanitarian resettlement policy needed
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 4:42 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future climate change spokesman Gordon Copeland today called on the Government to develop a humanitarian resettlement plan intended to counter the human impact of global warming on the Pacific region. More >>
1080 reassessment needs time
Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 1:34 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Gordon Copeland has expressed satisfaction that the Environmental Risk Management Authority's reassessment of 1080 poison will finally get underway in November. More >>
Dunne celebrates first year of C & S achievements
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 3:45 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne, noting that it's a year since United Future and Labour signed the confidence and supply agreement that led to the formation of the Government, said today significant progress had already been made on the policy programme ... More >>
Law change to reduce impact of GST interpretation
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 10:50 am | United Future NZ Party
The government will introduce legislation to reduce the impact on GST-registered owners of holiday homes, home-stays, farm-stays and serviced apartments of a possible new interpretation of the law by Inland Revenue, Revenue Minister Peter Dunne announced ... More >>
Dunne to launch daylight saving petition
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 2:51 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne will launch a petition on Friday in conjunction with Nelson City councillor Mark Holmes to extend the period of daylight saving in New Zealand. More >>
Yadegary And Religious Freedom In Iran
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 12:27 am | United Future NZ Party
I think the Refugee Appeals Authority (RAA) displays a degree of naivety in the decision that they have made concerning the Iranian refugee, who arrived in New Zealand in 1993, and has since converted from Islam to Christianity and is now a practising ... More >>
United Future will repay
Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 11:34 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne has confirmed that United Future will seek to repay the amount identified by the Auditor-General as a breach of its Parliamentary funding before last year's election. More >>
Dunne: Leader's Letter October 16 2006
Monday, 16 October 2006, 2:04 pm | United Future NZ Party
The funny thing about history is how often it repeats itself. Or, as Karl Marx once famously put it, the thing to learn about history is that people don't. That is as true in politics as anywhere else, as a couple of recent examples show. More >>
Caution: Parents of truants not always negligent
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 4:53 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future education spokesperson Judy Turner says that the National Party call for 'docking family support payments' is attacking the truancy problem at the wrong end. More >>
Dunne concerning election spending reports
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 3:15 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Auditor-General's findings in respect of United Future's pre-election spending come as a considerable shock. More >>
United Future echoes NZDA concern over brodifacoum
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 1:08 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future environment and outdoor recreation spokesman Gordon Copeland has joined the New Zealand Deerstalkers Association in demanding answers to why a batch of brodifacoum that caught fire in Murupara yesterday was apparently being prepared for aerial application. More >>
Dunne: Statement On Auditor-General
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 3:59 pm | United Future NZ Party
In recent weeks I have been publicly critical on a couple of occasions of the way in which the Auditor-General and the Solicitor-General have conducted the inquiry into election spending. More >>
