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UF Won't Back 'Plundering' Of Law Fidelity Fund
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 2:44 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future will withdraw support for the Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill unless the Government backs away from the "legalised plundering" of the Law Society's $2 million fidelity fund, the party's justice spokesman, Murray Smith, said today. More >>
Baldock: Get DOC out of marine reserves process
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 4:51 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future environment spokesman Larry Baldock today renewed his call for the Department of Conservation to be removed from the marine reserves application process, particularly from initiating them. More >>
Govt’s cancer battle leaves men out in the cold
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 3:56 pm | United Future NZ Party
Men facing prostate cancer are strangely absent from the Government’s new cancer initiative despite it claiming 500 lives a year, United Future MP and Men’s Advocacy Network facilitator Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Brash continues Nat tradition of foreign blunders
Friday, 4 March 2005, 2:36 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne said today he was stunned to hear of Don Brash’s call for New Zealand to recall its Ambassador from Indonesia. More >>
Marc My Words: What Do Kleptomaniacs Take For Cure
Friday, 4 March 2005, 1:06 pm | United Future NZ Party
It seems like every time I open the newspaper there is a growing number of bandits trying hard to get their names into the ‘Anthology of N.Z.Thieves’ by Hans Zupp. And there is no shortage of hard luck stories (excuses) that accompany them. Predictably ... More >>
Alexander finds source of 111 debacle
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 6:23 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future law and order spokesman, Marc Alexander, says it’s becoming clear why the 111 emergency phone system has become such a disaster and is no longer trusted by the New Zealand public. More >>
Greens’ silence on cannabis-related psychosis
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 8:26 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future deputy leader Judy Turner today brought before Parliament a Canterbury University study released this week that shows daily cannabis use almost doubles the risk of psychotic illness, saying she had waited two days for the pro-drug Greens ... More >>
Baldock welcomes Marine Reserves Bill extension
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 8:26 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future environment spokesman Larry Baldock today welcomed the extension of the select committee report back date on the Marine Reserves Bill, saying it would ensure submitters were fairly treated. More >>
That 'giving feeling' - more than sharing a joint
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 1:45 pm | United Future NZ Party
Promoting civics education and then slamming moves to encourage volunteer work all in the same morning show the Greens are maintaining their usual standards of intellectual rigour, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today. More >>
Turner: 'Hubba Hubba' for a hundred grand a week
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 11:46 am | United Future NZ Party
Young New Zealanders have been short-changed by the $100,000 a week spent on the just-completed three-month 'hubba hubba' condom campaign, United Future deputy leader Judy Turner said today in revealing the campaign's cost and questioning its worth. More >>
Unicef report shows families must be top priority
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 9:45 am | United Future NZ Party
A Unicef report showing that 16 percent of New Zealand children live in poverty clearly demonstrates that United Future's pledge to make this year's election about family is the only way to go, the party's deputy leader, Judy Turner, said today. More >>
Union logic questioned
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 3:25 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future revenue spokesperson Gordon Copeland today questioned the logic of statements by the Council of Trade Unions supporting union demands for a 5% pay increase, but at the same time accepting without a murmur a 13% increase in real tax rates ... More >>
Dunne: Cut student loan interest rate in half
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 2:34 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today called on the Government to basically cut the student loan interest rate in half from 7 percent to 3.7 percent. More >>
Alexander: Lesser jail term rewards killer
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 11:16 am | United Future NZ Party
Killer Hori Ritchie Slade's reduced sentence has no place in a true justice system, United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Parliament must decide single bank regulator
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 8:51 am | United Future NZ Party
Gordon Copeland, finance spokesperson for United Future, said today that no commitment by the government should be made to a single regulator for Australian and New Zealand banks without the specific sanction of Parliament. More >>
Turner: Booze binge culture needs addressing
Monday, 28 February 2005, 5:01 pm | United Future NZ Party
The fact that $655 million a year - or eight percent of the health budget - goes on alcohol-related conditions shows New Zealand needs to do much more to change its booze culture, United Future deputy leader Judy Turner said today. More >>
United Future announces candidates
Monday, 28 February 2005, 4:59 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future has announced the first group of candidates to stand at the next general election. More >>
Dunne: Greens' strike call another show of lunacy
Monday, 28 February 2005, 1:50 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Greens call for industrial action to back unions' five percent pay rise campaign is a call for a return to the bad old days of cancelled ferry sailings during school holidays and a country held to ransom, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today. More >>
ACT's a party of principle ... Yeah Right!!
Monday, 28 February 2005, 1:13 pm | United Future NZ Party
Porn king Steve Crow is meeting with the ACT caucus today to discuss becoming a candidate at the next election. More >>
Dunne: $160m Govt grab is profiteering off debt
Friday, 25 February 2005, 8:40 am | United Future NZ Party
The Government’s decision to hold the student loan interest rate at 7 percent is “almost criminal” when its annual interest take has quadrupled to $160.8 million in the past three years, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today. More >>
