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Baldock welcomes $150m Bay road funding package

Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 11:33 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future’s Tauranga MP, Larry Baldock, has welcomed today’s announcement of a $150 million road-funding package for the Bay of Plenty. More >>

Dunne: Craven Peters hides from Iraqis

Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 10:58 am | United Future NZ Party

New Zealanders yesterday saw the real Winston Peters - “the craven, unprincipled politician skulking around Parliament, doing everything but facing up like a man to two innocent Iraqis who he had attacked in Parliament”, United Future leader Peter ... More >>

NZ First policy: don’t speak funny, mate

Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 10:48 am | United Future NZ Party

NZ First policy: don’t speak funny, mate United Future leader Peter Dunne says he’s been left flabbergasted by New Zealand First’s latest policy on helping new migrants integrate into New Zealand society. During a political debate hosted last night by ... More >>

15 ok for driving; enforcement of rules is key

Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 12:21 am | United Future NZ Party

Keep the driving age at 15, but train young drivers properly and enforce strict conditions, United Future's youth spokesman and former national rally champion Paul Adams said today. More >>

Dunne slams TV3's 'stupid arrogance'

Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 6:27 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader Peter Dunne tonight slammed the 'stupid, arrogant and anti-democratic' decision by TV3 to exclude his party from its televised political leaders' debate next week. More >>

Tie interest-free loans to completing studies

Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 5:14 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader Peter Dunne today called for interest-free student loans only for those who successfully complete their studies. More >>

Baldock: harden up no-passengers rule

Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 11:32 am | United Future NZ Party

Restricted drivers caught driving with passengers not entitled to be in the car with them should have their licences cancelled and be banned for 12 months then have to start the whole licencing process again, United Future transport spokesman Larry ... More >>

Copeland calls for bank interest charge probe

Monday, 1 August 2005, 4:49 pm | United Future NZ Party

The Banking Ombudsman needs to look more closely at interest charging practices during the 1990s by the Bank of New Zealand, in light of the Sunday Star-Times revelation of massive overcharging by the National Bank of Australia in Australia, United Future ... More >>

Aged care sector has every right to shout out

Monday, 1 August 2005, 3:43 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future senior citizens spokesman Marc Alexander today backed the Residential Care Providers NZ's billboard campaign on funding of aged care. More >>

“Taylor Talk” – An Introduction

Friday, 29 July 2005, 4:34 pm | United Future NZ Party

I’ve lived in Auckland for 31 years, 18 of those years within the Auckland Central electorate, (which is 15 years longer than National Auckland Central candidate Pansy Wong – she’s from Christchurch). I’ve seen politicians (local and national) come ... More >>

United Future condemns NZ First’s campaign of hate

Friday, 29 July 2005, 2:52 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader Peter Dunne said today that New Zealand First leader Winston Peters’ latest electioneering campaign of whipping up racial and religious hatred against the Muslim community in New Zealand was plumbing new depths of intolerance. More >>

Anatomy of a public dialogue

Friday, 29 July 2005, 2:42 pm | United Future NZ Party

Most people have their passions. For some it's fishing, rugby, or curling up with a good book. For others, it may be a cause. Our charitable organisations are brimming with individuals who are zealous, in a very good way, about poverty, social injustice ... More >>

Dunne: Time to Put a Value on Parenting

Friday, 29 July 2005, 9:58 am | United Future NZ Party

Last year the Sunday Star-Times featured a series of stories about the McLauchlans, a Waihi family who wrote to Prime Minister Helen Clark to ask why they were struggling to make ends meet, despite being considered too wealthy to receive government assistance. More >>

Alexander Paul Bailey ... judgment day!

Friday, 29 July 2005, 12:55 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future's Marc Alexander said today that the most important part of killer Paul Bailey's concurrent three year sentences handed down today for twice raping a 12-year-old girl in an Otago town in 1989 and 1990 was that any parole date he ... More >>

Turner: Choice with disadvantage is no choice

Thursday, 28 July 2005, 4:07 pm | United Future NZ Party

Social Development Minister Steve Maharey is continuing “the Government fiction that stay-at-home parents are given anything close to a real choice”, United Future deputy leader Judy Turner said today. More >>

Baldock: ACT ignoble to the bitter end

Thursday, 28 July 2005, 12:26 am | United Future NZ Party

ACT leader Rodney Hide's claim that United Future MP Larry Baldock's Marriage (Gender Clarification) Amendment Bill had the numbers is unfortunately not true, Mr Baldock said today, adding that he had very real hopes that it would indeed be true after ... More >>

Baldock challenges PM to reveal marriage position

Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 4:25 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future’s Larry Baldock today tackled Prime Minister Helen Clark, albeit through Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen speaking on her behalf, in Parliament on where her Government stood on maintaining marriage as between a man and a woman. More >>

Bradford Bill will see children snatched by CYFS

Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 1:17 pm | United Future NZ Party

New Zealand families will lose their children to CYFS zealots if Sue Bradford’s anti-smacking Bill passes into law, United Future deputy leader Judy Turner said today. More >>

More from the Ministry of Silly Rules.......

Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 11:30 am | United Future NZ Party

Maybe it’s not strictly the Ministry of Silly Rules, but the following story from the July 26 Nelson Evening Mail has left United Future’s Kaikoura candidate Robin Westley utterly flabbergasted. More >>

Baldock: No Marriage Bill vote before election

Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 11:17 am | United Future NZ Party

Member’s time has run out before the election for United Future’s Larry Baldock’s Marriage (Gender Clarification) Amendment Bill, which was scheduled for a first vote today. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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