United Future NZ Party - Latest News [Page 82]
Alexander delighted with prisoner compo moves
Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 11:12 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander has welcomed the introduction into Parliament today of the new prisoner compensation legislation. More >>
Policy Statement indicates room for tax cuts
Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 11:11 am | United Future NZ Party
The Government's Budget policy statement indicates that, in spite of protestations to the contrary, Finance Minister Michael Cullen has plenty of room to cut taxes, United Future revenue spokesman Gordon Copeland said today. More >>
Copeland: Govt palming off oil reserve costs
Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 10:39 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future energy spokesman Gordon Copeland is disappointed to hear of yet another Government impost on the long-suffering motorist. More >>
Alexander: Is Judy Bailey worth $800,000?
Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 12:16 am | United Future NZ Party
“Whether anyone is worth any particular salary should not be left up to government,” United Future broadcasting spokesman Marc Alexander said today. More >>
United Future, ORNZ welcome Aquaculture Bill
Tuesday, 14 December 2004, 2:17 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future and its affiliated party, Outdoor Recreation New Zealand, today welcomed the introduction of the Aquaculture Reform Bill. More >>
Govt Picks Up Paedophile 'Grooming' Initiative
Monday, 13 December 2004, 12:15 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander is delighted that the Government has moved on his initiative to make "grooming" of children by paedophiles punishable by up to seven years in jail. More >>
United Future calls for candidate nominations
Friday, 10 December 2004, 5:23 pm | United Future NZ Party
The President of United Future, Graeme Reeves, today announced the opening of nominations for the party’s candidates at the next general election. More >>
Marc My Words - 10 December 2004
Friday, 10 December 2004, 2:51 pm | United Future NZ Party
The recent Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in November in Santiago Chile was interesting for a number of reasons. To start with it is ironic that our Prime Minister seeks to advance the cause of free trade while she does her best to ... More >>
Dunne seeks freedom for Kiwi smokers
Friday, 10 December 2004, 8:44 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, is renewing his assault on ‘the PC anti-smoking law that the Labour Government is ramming down the throat of the Kiwi smoker’. More >>
Bill seeks to define marriage for man and woman
Friday, 10 December 2004, 12:45 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Larry Baldock said that his Member's Bill that would amend the Marriage Act to specify that marriage could only be between a man and a woman was even more vital after the passing of the Civil Union Bill yesterday. More >>
Baldock: Trial waterway poisoning is DOC looniness
Thursday, 9 December 2004, 5:26 pm | United Future NZ Party
A "loony" DOC scheme to trial poisoning a waterway to kill 'undesirable' fish must mean that the battle has been won against stoats, rats, feral cats, wild dogs, possums, weasels, ferrets and wasps, United Future's Larry Baldock said today. More >>
Adams backs Western Springs
Thursday, 9 December 2004, 9:17 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future’s Paul Adams has wholeheartedly puts his support behind Auckland's Western Springs speedway and called on the Government to sort out “the ridiculous situation that has been created by the Environment Court’s decision on the noise ... More >>
Get tough with defiant yobbo
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 12:07 am | United Future NZ Party
Alexander: 'Take his car, keep his fine and throw his ass in jail' The justice system now has the chance to get it right after being too soft on the Rotorua teen who recently had $43,000 worth of fines commuted to 300 hours of community service and then failed ... More >>
Next It Will Be Same-Sex Couples Adopting Children
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 4:52 pm | United Future NZ Party
Those pushing the Civil Union Bill will next push for same-sex couples to be allowed to adopt children, United Future's Murray Smith said today. More >>
Baldock: If it isn't gay marriage, prove it
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 3:55 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Larry Baldock is calling on supporters of the Civil Union Bill to back his amendment to clause 18 of the bill to "make it absolutely clear that there is no intention to convert civil unions into same-sex marriage". More >>
Dunne to Greens: let the people decide
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 10:51 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today wrote to the co-leaders of the Green party urging the 9 Green MP’s to vote in favour of an amendment to the Civil Union Bill that would see the Bill, if passed, made subject to a national referendum at the ... More >>
DoC charged with deceit over marine reserves
Monday, 6 December 2004, 3:31 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Outdoor Recreation party is charging the Department of Conservation with deceit over the creation of marine reserves at Great Barrier Island and Whangarei. More >>
“Shelve the Civil Union Bill”
Monday, 6 December 2004, 11:34 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Gordon Copeland today called on the Government to shelve its controversial Civil Union Bill. More >>
MARC MY WORDS - 2 December 2004
Friday, 3 December 2004, 11:29 am | United Future NZ Party
At a time when, as a society, we are arguing about single parenting, the efficacy of the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB), the erosion of the family as a pillar of civil society, the rise of alternative arrangements such as blended, defacto and ... More >>
Alexander: Corrections In Chaos
Thursday, 2 December 2004, 9:10 am | United Future NZ Party
Corrections Minister Paul Swain has masses to do with a department born of an era of comparatively low crime that is now ''under-resourced, under-managed and disconnected from all other branches of the criminal justice system'', United Future's Marc Alexander ... More >>
