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Copeland queries Cullen’s mindset
Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 5:08 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future’s revenue spokesman Gordon Copeland is disturbed at the mindset being displayed by Revenue Minister Michael Cullen’s in his recent remarks on tax. More >>
Line on sickness, invalid benefits doesn’t add up
Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 4:56 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Government’s explanation for the sharp increase in sickness and invalid beneficiaries isn’t supported by its own data, United Future social services spokeswoman Judy Turner said today. More >>
Benefit-Born Kids Not Fair On Taxpayer Or Kids
Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 4:22 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future social services spokeswoman Judy Turner released figures in Parliament today showing that 26,794 children have been born to women currently receiving benefits while they were on those benefits. More >>
Dunne Welcomes Cullen's 'Musings' On Rates
Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 3:20 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, today described as gratifying indications that the Finance Minister Dr Cullen is beginning to listen to the growing demand for tax relief. More >>
Govt funding website on dodging drug laws
Tuesday, 9 November 2004, 2:56 pm | United Future NZ Party
A Youth Law website, partly funded by the Government, gives teens advice on how to dodge drug laws and sends them to a drug-legalisation website for further information, United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander revealed in Parliament today. More >>
Lack of awareness of student loan burden
Friday, 5 November 2004, 5:13 pm | United Future NZ Party
The key finding of an AC Nielsen study, commissioned by StudyLink and Inland Revenue, is that students have little awareness of the ramifications of student loans for their life beyond graduation, according to United Future education spokesman Bernie ... More >>
Govt slammed for refusing DNA paternity tests
Friday, 5 November 2004, 5:10 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Gordon Copeland today expressed his frustration and disappointment at the government’s steadfast refusal to use DNA-testing to prove paternity. More >>
Marc My Words – 5 Nov 2004
Friday, 5 November 2004, 2:52 pm | United Future NZ Party
This week it's a 'two for one' deal because a couple of Court cases have raised my hackles. The first concerns the controversy involving Muslim women and the burqa; the second regards a cannabis related case in Christchurch. More >>
Alexander: Despite the spin - cop numbers are down
Friday, 5 November 2004, 2:42 pm | United Future NZ Party
Despite all of Police Minister George Hawkins' rhetoric to the contrary, police numbers per head of population are now below 1994 figures, United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander said today. "While police numbers have fluctuated over the years, ... More >>
Ogilvy renews call on character education
Friday, 5 November 2004, 1:17 pm | United Future NZ Party
Character education is a glaring omission from the Government initiative announced today to combat severely challenging behaviour in children, United Future education spokesmen Bernie Ogilvy said today. More >>
Dunne offers Anderton support on tax cut
Friday, 5 November 2004, 11:30 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, has welcomed Economic Development Minister Jim Anderton’s call for a cut in corporate tax. More >>
Govt misses chance to help children of divorce
Friday, 5 November 2004, 12:17 am | United Future NZ Party
The Government has missed a huge opportunity to help children whose parents are divorcing by failing to take note of innovative mediation approaches overseas, most notably recent Australian reforms, United Future's Judy Turner said today. More >>
Foreshore Bill endangers NZ’s social progress
Thursday, 4 November 2004, 1:46 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP, Larry Baldock, says the Foreshore and Seabed Bill, reported back from select committee to Parliament today, is seriously flawed and will not be supported by his party. More >>
Landlords need relief from outdated rental act
Thursday, 4 November 2004, 8:51 am | United Future NZ Party
The coming review of the Residential Tenancies Act was applauded today by United Future’s Marc Alexander, who has long championed the rights of landlords to a better deal. More >>
Income-splitting means $45 a week
Wednesday, 3 November 2004, 5:27 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today called on the Government to introduce income-splitting for families where one parent is caring for their children full-time or only working part-time, saying a family on $55,000 a year would be $45 a week better off. More >>
Flying discount for elderly a good move
Wednesday, 3 November 2004, 5:25 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Marc Alexander today congratulated Origin Pacific Airways for its launch of an "enlightened" discount travel programme for the elderly and called for Air New Zealand to match it. More >>
Smith puts up teen abortion SOP
Wednesday, 3 November 2004, 5:17 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Murray Smith will tomorrow move a supplementary order paper on the Care of Children Bill, in favour of parents being informed when their teenage daughters seek abortions. More >>
Alexander: Cops calling other cops 'snakes'
Tuesday, 2 November 2004, 4:15 pm | United Future NZ Party
Disquiet within the police over the resources put into traffic duties is showing itself in a particularly ugly fashion, with instances of crime-fighting police dubbing their traffic-patrolling colleagues 'snakes', United Future law and order spokesman ... More >>
Turner offers Mallard briefing on drug education
Tuesday, 2 November 2004, 4:14 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Judy Turner has offered Education Minister Trevor Mallard a briefing on a schools drug education handbook after he said in Parliament today that he didn't know if the phrase 'harm minimisation' had been removed from it. More >>
Time for New Zealand to grow up
Monday, 1 November 2004, 3:01 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, told a party meeting in Christchurch tonight that the time had arrived for New Zealand to step boldly into the future as a progressive, positive, self-confident nation. More >>
