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When the only censorship is against the truth
Thursday, 24 February 2005, 6:50 pm | United Future NZ Party
Marc My Words - 25 February 2005 "in my view Stephen Franks of the ACT party has completely misrepresented the recent Films, Videos and Publications Classification Amendment Act." More >>
Dunne: China playing politics with world health
Thursday, 24 February 2005, 10:49 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, will present a petition to Parliament next week asking the New Zealand Government to re-consider and support Taiwan’s bid for observer status at the World Health Assembly to be held next May. More >>
Single benefit opens way for non-govt agencies
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 8:37 am | United Future NZ Party
If the government’s move towards a single core benefit proves successful in reducing the amount of time spent on administering the benefit, then the role of Work and Income case managers will have to change dramatically, according to United Future ... More >>
Transparency or just nosiness?
Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 3:03 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future finance and revenue spokesperson Gordon Copeland today expressed “deep reservations” concerning the planned new rules which would throw private business accounts open to public scrutiny. More >>
Fairness Needed In Govt's Treatment Of Students
Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 11:24 am | United Future NZ Party
In announcing United Future's student support policies today, leader Peter Dunne pledged to restore fairness to the way the Government deals with tertiary students. More >>
Dunne: Giving students back their future
Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 11:15 am | United Future NZ Party
Changes must be made to the student loan scheme to stop it crippling graduates for life, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today in announcing his party's student support policy. More >>
Alexander: Child porn crackdown great news
Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 9:48 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future’s Marc Alexander today applauded the police crackdown on child pornographers that today has more than 40 people around the country facing charges and has seen 113 computers seized. More >>
Greens demonstrate complete irrelevance
Friday, 18 February 2005, 5:35 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future Marc Alexander says it’s now becoming clear why the Green Party has become absolutely irrelevant to serious politics in this election year. More >>
Dunne: uni, wananga, Unitec?????
Friday, 18 February 2005, 5:27 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, tonight questioned the Government‘s priorities over what exactly is a New Zealand university. More >>
Putting the record straight
Friday, 18 February 2005, 12:15 am | United Future NZ Party
I spent last weekend enveloped in the warm beauty of the Marlborough Sounds – magnificent vistas of Nature’s best – at this year’s Summer Sounds Symposium. I was one of a number of speakers who, in turn, challenged the conventional wisdom about all those ... More >>
More Debt For Students
Thursday, 17 February 2005, 3:04 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Government has just dumped an extra $10,000 a year on to the loans of more than 6000 students, United Future leader Peter Dunne revealed in Parliament today. More >>
Baldock urges commonsense over Kyoto protocol
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 3:31 pm | United Future NZ Party
While the debate rages on in the scientific community on whether in fact any recorded climate change is the result of greenhouse gas emissions, United Future’s environment spokesman Larry Baldock believes we must take a pragmatic approach. More >>
Do-nothing Government does nothing again
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 5:14 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Government's rejection of a Police Association call for a commission of inquiry into organised crime is consistent with its "do nothing attitude" towards gangs, United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Turner: Ray of light on vision-testing fiasco
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 4:19 pm | United Future NZ Party
Associate Health Minister Pete Hodgson's pledge under questioning in Parliament today to look at evidence on the flawed national schools vision and hearing testing programme was the first positive sign from the Government in "12 months of ministerial evasion", ... More >>
Turner: Privacy Rules Leave Parents Stranded
Monday, 14 February 2005, 5:19 pm | United Future NZ Party
Something's wrong when a society that holds parents accountable for neglecting their children puts massive obstacles in the guise of privacy concerns in the way of parents who want to do their best for their children, United Future deputy leader Judy Turner ... More >>
Don't tax tourists, Bob
Monday, 14 February 2005, 12:45 am | United Future NZ Party
Waitakere City mayor Bob Harvey and the country's other mayors suggested taxing of tourists to fill local government coffers ignores the fact that they're already taxed - it's called GST, United Future's Larry Baldock said today. More >>
Alexander supports call on home detention lunacy
Monday, 14 February 2005, 12:03 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Marc Alexander, who has been supporting a woman brutally attacked by a man a day after he breached his home detention, has backed Sensible Sentencing Trust calls for the scheme to be ended for any offender with a violent background. More >>
Baldock: rates burden becoming oppressive
Friday, 11 February 2005, 5:16 pm | United Future NZ Party
On the back of Auckland City Council's announcement of a possible massive rates hike, United Future local government spokesman Larry Baldock today expressed concern at the reported increase for residential ratepayers nationwide of 7.4% from June 2003-04. More >>
Rates hike shows folly of GST on rates
Friday, 11 February 2005, 5:04 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Bill to take GST off rates would have almost entirely eased the pain Auckland ratepayers are feeling now with their 11 percent rates hike, United Future's Auckland MPs Paul Adams and Bernie Ogilvy said today. More >>
Dunne: independent 111 inquiry imperative
Friday, 11 February 2005, 12:33 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, says Police Minister George Hawkins is regrettably missing the point over Mr Dunne’s call for an independent inquiry into the emergency 111 phone system. More >>
