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United Future’s focus on families pays dividends
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 3:53 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future has its fingerprints all over the family aspects of today’s Budget, particularly the strong moves in the direction of early intervention and family assistance, the party’s deputy leader, Judy Turner, said today. More >>
Law and order: Good start, but think smarter
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 3:51 pm | United Future NZ Party
Increased police funding is a step in the right direction, but basically we still need more front line officers, United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander said in response to today’s Budget announcement. More >>
Copeland pleased with tax bracket changes
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 3:43 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future revenue spokesperson Gordon Copeland today claimed victory for his party following Finance Minister Michael Cullen’s announcement that the tax brackets will be moved upwards on 1 April 2008. More >>
Literacy, numeracy, schools: all in UF's checklist
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 3:42 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future was delighted with the $13 million total for workplace literacy and numeracy programmes and the expanded modern apprenticeships programme, the party’s education spokesman, Bernie Ogilvy, said in the wake of today’s Budget. More >>
Copeland: UF helps people into their first homes
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 3:37 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future has secured New Zealanders the right to withdraw funds from the new workplace savings scheme for a deposit on a first home and gained them $5000 individual and $10,000 couple government grants for the same goal, United Future finance spokesman ... More >>
Dunne: UF delivers $300m Budget package
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 3:29 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today toted up $300 million worth of United Future initiatives in the Budget, and invited comparisons with other parties who are “playing the politics of trivia”. More >>
UF's $27.7m to get beneficiaries back to work
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 3:12 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader Judy Turner today said she was delighted that $27.7 million would be put into getting sickness and invalid beneficiaries back to work, on the back of a strong United Future campaign to target their rising numbers. More >>
Health: Good direction; more needed
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 3:09 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader Judy Turner was delighted the Government was committed to reaching the OECD average on health research spending, but said the Budget’s health component still needs to be more responsive to pressure points in the sector. More >>
Dunne on Budget: breaking the tax logjam
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 3:08 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne says he’s delighted that three years of intensive United Future lobbying has paid off in the form of the Budget’s adjustment to the tax brackets. More >>
Turner delighted at children-first court programme
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 10:03 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader Judy Turner today said she was absolutely delighted that the Government had taken up United Future’s call for a Family Court two-session parenting education programme to help separating parents reduce conflict and stress for their ... More >>
Baldock continues campaign for fishing crews
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 3:59 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP, Larry Baldock, today continued his campaign for urgent action from the Government to overcome the appalling situation revealed by the report on employment conditions in the fishing industry. More >>
MPs compare foreign crew conditions to slavery
Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 4:53 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future MPs Larry Baldock and Paul Adams today compared the conditions on board some foreign fishing vessels as akin to slavery, when tackling Labour Minister Paul Swain in Parliament today. More >>
Alexander: Blackball has it right on sex offender
Monday, 16 May 2005, 1:49 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander today supported the people of Blackball, saying that their reaction to have a sex offender thrust into their midst was the only rational defence of their children that was open to them. More >>
Baldock appalled by foreign vessel abuse
Friday, 13 May 2005, 5:52 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future fisheries spokesman Larry Baldock today reiterated his colleague Paul Adam’s call that foreign charter fishing vessels need to clean up their act or be banned, in the wake of allegations of physical abuse and maltreatment of their crew. More >>
Dialysis patients suffer for want of training
Friday, 13 May 2005, 8:22 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader Judy Turner today asked Associate Health Minister Pete Hodgson in Parliament why it was ever necessary for kidney patients to be presenting at Wellington Hospital bloated, yellow and collapsing on dialysis machines, with ... More >>
Alexander: Police being led by lemmings
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 4:09 pm | United Future NZ Party
Police statistics appear to be more political propaganda than an accurate record of crime in New Zealand and having an incompetent Police Minister is doing nothing to make up for that in terms of public confidence, United Future law and order spokesman ... More >>
Adams calls for review of ‘murky’ foreign vessels’
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 11:51 am | United Future NZ Party
The Government must now urgently review the “murky” pay and working conditions on board foreign charter fishing vessels, United Future's immigration and labour spokesman Paul Adams today as he welcomed the long-awaited report into foreign crew on New ... More >>
The Thinned Blue Line
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 12:45 am | United Future NZ Party
There can be no question that we are a violent society. What’s more, we have become an increasingly violent society. We have barely started this year and already we have had 25 murders (five in Christchurch in the last eight weeks). That’s 25 Kiwi ... More >>
Adams closes door on shoddy car repairs
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 12:31 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Paul Adams took a step this week to save New Zealand motorists from being taken for a ride. More >>
Ogilvy: Kick-start not nest-egg required
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 5:06 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Government's idea of diverting tertiary savings scheme funds into superannuation for those who don't study will likely deter parents from opting into such a scheme for their children, United Future's Bernie Ogilvy said in Parliament today. More >>
