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Split DOC in two to reclaim it from green zealots
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 1:21 pm | United Future NZ Party
DOC is out of control and United Future and Outdoor Recreation NZ will lead the charge to have it restructured into two parts – a conservation division and a recreation division – to reclaim it from the extremist greens who control it, the party’s leader ... More >>
Environment policy on scientific evidence
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 1:06 pm | United Future NZ Party
Environmental decisions need to be made on hard scientific evidence, not airy-fairy ideological agendas, Outdoor Recreation NZ chairman and United Future Taupo candidate Paul Check said at the launch of United Future/ORNZ’s outdoors policy in Taupo today. More >>
Parenting orders, good idea; we’ve had it for age
Monday, 21 March 2005, 4:32 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future has consistently - and as recently as Friday - called for parents to be held more accountable for their children’s behaviour, the party’s leader, Peter Dunne, said today in saying the party essentially backed National’s call for parenting ... More >>
Publicly disown ‘hate speech law’ right now
Monday, 21 March 2005, 2:11 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today challenged the Government to public distance itself from any possible hate speech law, saying that United Future would have no part in it. More >>
MARC MY WORDS – 21 March 2005
Monday, 21 March 2005, 11:16 am | United Future NZ Party
Here we go again. In the case of notorious sex offender Lloyd McIntosh, the Parole Board has had to weigh up the uneasy balance between the ideal of equality before the law and pragmatic commonsense in the prevention of further criminal offending. More >>
UF Policy: An Education with Character
Friday, 18 March 2005, 4:24 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future education spokesman Bernie Ogilvy and party leader Peter Dunne say it’s high time that the government actually did something more than merely paying lip-service to the 1993 Curriculum Framework, which states that attitudes and values, ... More >>
UF Policy: Time to Get Tough on Truancy
Friday, 18 March 2005, 12:00 am | United Future NZ Party
Something needs to be done about the fact that at any one time, in any one class, one child is absent, and establishing a national student database to track children’s attendance in school must be the first step, United Future leader Peter Dunne said ... More >>
Plug gap that lets Lloyd McIntosh go free
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 5:16 pm | United Future NZ Party
If New Zealand doesn’t plug a legal gap in the way it handles serious offenders who have completed their sentences but still are clearly a risk to the community, it might as well start preparing to do body counts and support sex attack victims, United ... More >>
NZ Day Bill brought into Parliament
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 2:21 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, says it’s time New Zealand had a national day that all New Zealanders can celebrate. More >>
UF policy: primary and secondary education
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 4:41 pm | United Future NZ Party
Schools will prioritise the teaching of core subjects under United Future’s primary and secondary education policy being released this week, according to leader Peter Dunne. More >>
Review Pharmac’s role after flu jab fiasco
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 4:53 pm | United Future NZ Party
Getting Pharmac involved in anything more complicated than purchasing aspirin is a recipe for giving New Zealand a headache, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today as the fallout continued over the botched flu vaccines. More >>
Dunne: Govt has interns working for $2.83 per hour
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 4:06 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today called on the Government to up the trainee intern grant for medical students that effectively pays them $2.83 an hour before the 82 percent of them who say they will leave New Zealand because of their student ... More >>
Smith: Building standards to remain accessible
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 2:28 pm | United Future NZ Party
Building standards won’t be compromised and builders and designers will be able to get the information they need to do their jobs after United Future’s intervention in the Legislation (Incorporation by Reference) Bill, which has been tabled in Parliament, ... More >>
Early Childhood Education: United Future Policy
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 1:54 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future would guarantee all pre-school children over the age of three the right to access up to 20 hours per week of free early childhood education at any teacher-led provider, said party leader Peter Dunne in releasing the party’s early childhood ... More >>
NCEA: United Future’s View
Monday, 14 March 2005, 3:56 pm | United Future NZ Party
Media statement For immediate release Monday, 14 March 2005 NCEA: United Future’s view United Future leader Peter Dunne and the party’s education spokesman Bernie Ogilvy today launched their constructive view of what should be done about the National ... More >>
Teen crims laughing at talk-fest conferences
Monday, 14 March 2005, 1:52 pm | United Future NZ Party
Family group conferences for young offenders are being rorted, United Future¡¦s Marc Alexander said today in revealing a rising trend that has seen one young offender with 11 under his belt, and hundreds of teens who have taken part in anything from ... More >>
Paedophile supervision expensive and flawed
Monday, 14 March 2005, 1:38 pm | United Future NZ Party
New Zealand’s in a sorry state when the level of grossly expensive supervision of sex offenders is essentially decided on whether or not they promise to be good boys, United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander said today. More >>
MARC MY WORDS – 11 March 2005
Friday, 11 March 2005, 12:39 am | United Future NZ Party
You always know an election is on its way when the argy bargy of debate in Parliament ascends in shrillness and descends in tone. Everyone takes on a new haircut, a new suit (or gets the old one dry cleaned), a bright new look-at-me tie, and brushes ... More >>
Shorter, not tougher, sentences
Friday, 11 March 2005, 12:19 am | United Future NZ Party
Alexander: More prisoners due to shorter, not tougher, sentences Courts are sending more offenders to prison, but many are serving short sentences, according to figures obtained by United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander. More >>
Alexander: Police ignore ‘slam-dunk’ cases
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 11:54 am | United Future NZ Party
Police claims of higher crime resolution rates are undone when “slam-dunk” cases with the evidence all gathered are put in their laps but still don’t get sorted, United Future’s Marc Alexander said in Parliament yesterday. More >>
