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United Future NZ Party - Latest News [Page 59]

UF's proud record of achievement for families

Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 10:20 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader Peter Dunne today released a list of his party's achievements over the last term of Parliament, while working under a confidence and supply agreement with the Labour government. More >>

Dunne corrects commentators’ errors

Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 12:42 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader Peter Dunne today corrected errors being perpetrated by various political commentators and journalists about what United Future would do after the election. More >>

Smith: Brash gaffe shows need for UF

Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 4:00 pm | United Future NZ Party

Don Brash's "uneducated gaffe" about the number of historical treaty settlements still to be completed shows a disturbing ignorance of the process for resolving historical treaty grievances that is in itself dangerous for New Zealand's race relationships, ... More >>

Time for the people to speak on Transmission Gully

Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 10:51 am | United Future NZ Party

Ohariu-Belmont MP Peter Dunne says it’s time for the people of the greater Wellington region to speak up in support of the Transmission Gully motorway project, following the failure yesterday of the region’s local body leaders to come to a majority decision ... More >>

Plans for Pharmac review vindicated

Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 9:55 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future Leader Peter Dunne has hailed a survey showing most New Zealanders want an independent review of Pharmac as vindication for his campaign over the last year to reform the medicines agency. More >>

Alexander: Adult TV time-slot back to 9.30pm

Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 9:50 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future would beef up the Broadcasting Standards Authority's powers and push the earliest time at which Adults Only programming screens back from 8:30pm to 9:30pm, its broadcasting spokesman, Marc Alexander, said today in launching party policy. More >>

Alexander: United Future communications policy

Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 9:38 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future will ensure that New Zealand has an open and competitive modern telecommunications infrastructure, promoting delivery of better service at better prices, within a sound regulatory framework to protect the public interest, Marc Alexander said today. "Safeguarding ... More >>

Baldock: More DOC lunacy over koi carp

Monday, 29 August 2005, 4:19 pm | United Future NZ Party

The Department of Conservation is running the outdoor estate as if it were a personal fiefdom for zealots, United Future’s Larry Baldock said today in response to its refusal to let a New Zealand business rid the country’s waterways of the noxious ... More >>

Dunne: Time for Nats/ACT to face reality

Monday, 29 August 2005, 3:39 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader Peter Dunne says the time is fast approaching for the National Party to realise that the days of taking advice from ACT and its backers are over. More >>

Tax cuts - comparing Labour, National UF

Monday, 29 August 2005, 1:33 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future finance and revenue spokesperson Gordon Copeland today released an analysis of his party's tax policy by comparison with that of Labour and National More >>

Alexander: Harawira comments ridiculous

Monday, 29 August 2005, 9:53 am | United Future NZ Party

Donna Awatere Huata is in jail because she is a thief and not because of the colour of her skin, and her supporters need to wrap their heads around that, United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander said today. More >>

Greens' caveman economics threaten free trade

Monday, 29 August 2005, 12:48 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader, Peter Dunne said today the cornerstone of New Zealand's economic prosperity - free trade - could be sacrificed if the Greens were part of a coalition government after the election. More >>

Alexander: A poisoned kiss of deep red!

Friday, 26 August 2005, 2:41 pm | United Future NZ Party

The kind of people you invite into your bed, politically speaking, says a lot about your true colours. Like an on again/off again soap opera in an incestuous affair between forbidden lovers, Labour is now openly, if desperately, wooing the Greens. ... More >>

Support visit for every expectant mum and dad

Friday, 26 August 2005, 2:32 pm | United Future NZ Party

Every expectant parent will be able to have a visit from a Family Support Co-ordinator to ensure they can access all the government and voluntary services available to them, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today in launching the party's family ... More >>

Dunne: Family focus across all policies

Friday, 26 August 2005, 2:25 pm | United Future NZ Party

The family needs to be at the forefront of all political decision-making because strong families mean a strong country, United Future leader Peter Dunne said at the launch of the party's family policy in Christchurch today. More >>

Turner: Where are big parties' health policies?

Friday, 26 August 2005, 11:09 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future deputy leader Judy Turner today slammed Labour and National for not having put out their health policies with only three weeks remaining until the election. More >>

United Future is committed to tax relief

Thursday, 25 August 2005, 10:16 am | United Future NZ Party

Unlike New Zealand First, United Future would be interested in talking with National after the election about its tax cut package, United Future leader, Peter Dunne, said today. More >>

Ministry of Silly Rules – Dopey Stoners

Thursday, 25 August 2005, 12:59 am | United Future NZ Party

The government’s decision to hold a select committee inquiry on hate speech created a whole new avenue of grievance for those with a victim mentality. More >>

Alexander: Residential care fears are real

Wednesday, 24 August 2005, 3:16 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future's senior citizens spokesman Marc Alexander today backed the concerns of the Healthcare Providers chief executive Martin Taylor that access to residential care is under threat without greater funding. More >>

A United Future vote will slay the Green monster

Wednesday, 24 August 2005, 10:51 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader Peter Dunne said today that National’s John Key and Maurice Williamson are right to raise a warning flag about the disastrous effect the Green Party’s economic policies would have on New Zealand. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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