United Future NZ Party - Latest News [Page 54]
Leader's Letter: Budget special
Thursday, 18 May 2006, 3:25 pm | United Future NZ Party
Budgets are useful documents in the political process; they can allow you to see where the country has been and where it’s headed. More >>
Lessons not learnt after Chinese student fiasco
Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 3:28 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future education spokesperson, Judy Turner, has expressed concern over New Zealand's inability to meet the needs of new international students, insisting that lessons should have been learnt from the recent Chinese student fiasco. More >>
Turner: Leaky Homes changes good ... but...
Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 9:45 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader Judy Turner has welcomed the announcement of an overhaul of the Leaky Homes Service but warns that it does not go far enough. More >>
Dunne: Carbon tax backers should learn to count
Friday, 12 May 2006, 11:04 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne says the International Energy Agency, Cath Wallace, and the Greens all overlook one simple reason for why the carbon tax was dumped. More >>
UF launches interactive website content
Friday, 12 May 2006, 10:13 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future has launched new interactive content for its website, including an income splitting tax calculator and a discussion forum. More >>
Turner backs 'Children in the Middle'
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 5:11 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's family spokesperson, Judy Turner MP, is applauding today's pre-Budget announcement of a new Courts programme to help children caught in the middle of a divorce or custody dispute. More >>
Turner slams National MP's disrespect
Monday, 8 May 2006, 11:07 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future's deputy leader, Judy Turner MP, is describing a walkout by two National MP's from a powhiri as disrespectful grandstanding. More >>
Copeland: United we stand, divided we fall?
Friday, 28 April 2006, 9:20 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Gordon Copeland says South Island local authorities are to be congratulated for their united opposition to the requirement to microchip working farm dogs. More >>
Copeland: Govt must follow-up didymo breakthrough
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 11:27 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Gordon Copeland says it's vital the Government provides the necessary funding and infrastructure to capitalise on groundbreaking research on the freshwater invasive algae, didymo. More >>
Dunne slams EPMU's bully-boy tactics
Monday, 24 April 2006, 12:29 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today slammed the 'bully-boy threats' of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union which says it will launch a massive public campaign against a proposed law that would allow employers to sack new workers within 90 days ... More >>
Dunne backs greater public-private healthcare
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 3:17 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne is wholeheartedly endorsing the call by Southern Cross Healthcare for greater partnership between the public and private health systems to reduce waiting lists for elective surgery. More >>
Towards a national medicines strategy
Thursday, 13 April 2006, 10:57 am | United Future NZ Party
Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne today outlined how a national medicines strategy will be developed, resulting in a strategic look at the role of medicines in health care delivery. More >>
Turner demands swift action on party pills
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 4:09 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future drugs spokesperson Judy Turner says a Waikato Hospital study on party pills, due to be released tomorrow, is a hurry-up message for Jim Anderton and the Expert Advisory Committee on Drugs to decide how to deal with party pills. More >>
Dunne: Let Taiwan into the WHA
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 10:21 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne wants the Government to support Taiwan's admission to the World Health Assembly. More >>
Ban or regulate party pills? Turner
Monday, 10 April 2006, 12:54 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Judy Turner is calling on the government to bring party pills under pharmaceutical regulation ? or ban them. More >>
1 April Super Increase not due to NZ First
Monday, 3 April 2006, 4:47 pm | United Future NZ Party
The increase in NZ Superannuation on 1 April to 66.12% of the net average wage for married couples is exactly as it would have been without the Confidence and Supply Agreement between NZ First and the Government, according to United Future Superannuation ... More >>
Dunne welcomes Satyanand appointment
Monday, 3 April 2006, 3:35 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today expressed his keen delight at the news that Judge Anand Satyanand is to be the next Governor-General of New Zealand. More >>
Local body unity on Transmission Gully
Monday, 3 April 2006, 11:32 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader and Ohariu-Belmont MP Peter Dunne is delighted all of Wellington's local bodies are now getting in behind the Transmission Gully motorway project. More >>
Dunne: More daylight saving a good thing?
Friday, 31 March 2006, 8:55 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne has lent his party's support to an initiative that would consider an extension to daylight saving. More >>
Copeland: Too much danger at level crossings
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 4:41 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Gordon Copeland is unimpressed with the answers he received in Parliament this afternoon in response to his question on rail safety. More >>