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Marc My Words: A Time to Reflect
Monday, 12 September 2005, 2:37 pm | United Future NZ Party
Ask a hundred people what their purpose in life is and I suspect you’d get a hundred different answers. If there is a common thread then I suppose it is that their lives count for something and they can make a difference that matters. More >>
UF arts, culture and heritage policy
Monday, 12 September 2005, 2:28 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future arts and culture spokesman Marc Alexander today announced the following policy. More >>
Ogilvy: Promoting Quality in Tertiary Education
Monday, 12 September 2005, 12:49 am | United Future NZ Party
After over a decade of increasing the quantity of students participating in tertiary education, a new focus on the quality of education is well overdue, United Future education spokesman Bernie Ogilvy said today as he released the party's tertiary ... More >>
Dunne commits UF to coalition arrangement
Monday, 12 September 2005, 12:10 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today committed the party to a coalition arrangement after the election, adding that smaller parties' positions would be crucial in the current neck-and-neck political environment. More >>
Dunne corrects news report
Friday, 9 September 2005, 1:18 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today cleared up confusion caused by an incorrect news report about preconditions for a possible meeting with Labour leader Helen Clark. More >>
Alexander: NZ First declares itself poodle party
Thursday, 8 September 2005, 10:16 am | United Future NZ Party
"Winston Peters finally made the decision not to make a decision about his post-election arrangements and basically committed political self-castration," said United Future MP Marc Alexander. More >>
Dunne: Asset building key to housing policy
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 4:07 pm | United Future NZ Party
Encouraging higher levels of home ownership is a priority for United Future, according to leader Peter Dunne in launching his party's Housing policy today. More >>
Simplification, collaboration key to research
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 4:05 pm | United Future NZ Party
Different funding mechanisms must be simplified if New Zealand is to enhance its performance in research, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today in launching his party's policy on research, science and technology. More >>
Alexander backs Corrections inquiry call
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 11:03 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future’s Marc Alexander today back National’s call for an inquiry into the Corrections Department debacle that saw a youth surrounded by sexual misconduct allegations sent to do community work in a school where he raped an eight-year-old girl. More >>
Cash for grandparents welcomed, more to be done
Tuesday, 6 September 2005, 3:50 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader Judy Turner today said she was pleased the Government had responded to United Future’s continued calls to pay grandparents raising their grandchildren the same as CYFS foster carers by at least raising payments for superannuitants ... More >>
Alexander: Labour pays murderers but not victims
Monday, 5 September 2005, 11:29 am | United Future NZ Party
"How screwed up is our so-called justice system when a Labour Cabinet Minister pays $90,000 to a murderer but has a problem with $602 for a victim?" demanded United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander today. More >>
Baldock calls on Clarkson to make intentions clear
Monday, 5 September 2005, 11:13 am | United Future NZ Party
The idea that Tauranga's National Party candidate, Bob Clarkson, might be asked by his party leadership to step aside to prop up Winston Peters is outrageous and an insult to the people of Tauranga, United Future’s Tauranga MP, Larry Baldock, said ... More >>
UF endorses National’s increased family emphasis
Monday, 5 September 2005, 8:40 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader and family spokeswoman, Judy Turner, says she’s delighted the National Party has now accepted United Future’s long-held view that the family is the cornerstone of New Zealand society. More >>
Dunne calls all ACT voters on board
Monday, 5 September 2005, 12:33 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today issued a clarion call to ACT supporters to move across to United Future so their votes won't be wasted. More >>
Turner: Sack CYFS staff over child rape disgrace
Friday, 2 September 2005, 9:25 am | United Future NZ Party
CYFS staff involved in taking four months to tell a mother about claims that her seven-year-old daughter had been raped should be sacked immediately, United Future deputy leader Judy Turner said today. More >>
Labour picks up UF’s one-stop family centres
Thursday, 1 September 2005, 3:43 pm | United Future NZ Party
Labour has not only picked up United Future’s policy of one-stop family centres, it’s taken the name as well, United Future’s deputy leader, Judy Turner, said today. More >>
Labour must confirm support for welfare-work gap
Thursday, 1 September 2005, 11:55 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader Judy Turner called on Labour to state that it would keep welfare-to-work incentives in the Working For Families package, after the Greens yesterday pushed for their removal. More >>
Turner welcomes medical support
Thursday, 1 September 2005, 9:47 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader Judy Turner today welcomed the Medicines Industry Association’s effective backing of United Future’s stance on an independent review of Pharmac’s operations. More >>
Turner: Pain in the ACC
Thursday, 1 September 2005, 9:27 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader Judy Turner today called for the ACC to urgently review its response criteria for handling people in chronic pain. More >>
National and Labour challenged on income-splitting
Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 11:34 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today challenged the leaders of both major parties to come clean as to where they stood with regard to allowing parents to split their incomes for tax purposes. More >>
