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111 debacles tie into public unease with police

Monday, 1 November 2004, 1:53 pm | United Future NZ Party

The public is going to become less and less tolerant of poor police responses to emergency 111 calls for as long as they know that all-too-scarce police resources are going into "pinging every driver doing 55kph in suburban back streets", United ... More >>

When The Quality Of Compassion Is Strained

Monday, 1 November 2004, 9:44 am | United Future NZ Party

I magine being a mother, called by the police, and told that your 29 year old son has died. More >>

Turner: Put basics in place for our children

Saturday, 30 October 2004, 3:14 pm | United Future NZ Party

New Zealand could give its children no better gift on Sunday, National Children's Day, than to make their lives safer, United Future family affairs spokeswoman, Judy Turner, said today. More >>

Marc My Words - 29 October 2004

Friday, 29 October 2004, 4:21 pm | United Future NZ Party

When The Quality Of Compassion Is Strained - Imagine being a mother, called by the police, and told that your 29 year old son has died. More >>

MPs present prostitution petition

Friday, 29 October 2004, 4:12 pm | United Future NZ Party

Two MPs today presented 140,000 signatures to the Office of the Clerk at Parliament, placing them about halfway to their goal of having a citizens-initiated referendum on repealing the Prostitution Reform Act on next year's election ballot papers. More >>

‘Pink thinkers’ see red over UF tax plan

Friday, 29 October 2004, 10:43 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future MP Marc Alexander is pouring scorn on the Greens and the Progressive party for their opposition to United Future’s call for the government to give back part of its massive tax take to working New Zealanders. More >>

Extension on prostitution petition

Thursday, 28 October 2004, 5:01 pm | United Future NZ Party

MPs Larry Baldock and Gordon Copeland were today delighted at having a two-month extension in a bid for a citizens initiated referendum to repeal the Prostitution Reform Act. More >>

Cullen wrong re indexation of tax

Thursday, 28 October 2004, 3:51 pm | United Future NZ Party

Revenue Minister Dr Cullen has it wrong when he says that “no administration in the world allows tax rates to be set by the rate of inflation”, according to United Future revenue spokesperson Gordon Copeland. More >>

Copeland: “The Greens oppose it; we must be right”

Thursday, 28 October 2004, 12:15 am | United Future NZ Party

The Green Party’s opposition to United Future’s call for the Government to hand back to taxpayers some of the billions of extra tax it has gathered over the past few years has convinced United Future’s revenue spokesperson Gordon Copeland that he’s ... More >>

Turner: Ministry's attitude short sighted

Thursday, 28 October 2004, 12:04 am | United Future NZ Party

A Health Ministry claim that children with close-up vision problems adjust their reading methods to cope is utterly unacceptable, United Future’s Judy Turner said today in further pushing for an inquiry into the school vision-testing programme. More >>

Victim Impact Report Obstacles Concerning

Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 5:34 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future's Marc Alexander, who helped clear the way for a victim impact report in the case, today welcomed the 17-year sentences imposed on two teenagers for the murder of a homeless man in Christchurch earlier this year. More >>

All care, no responsibility and very little dosh

Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 4:21 pm | United Future NZ Party

Care workers looking after the nation's elderly both in their own homes and in institutions are getting a raw deal - and as a result the elderly themselves are suffering and will suffer more, United Future's Marc Alexander said today. More >>

Drug ed handbook shows Green influence waning

Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 11:33 am | United Future NZ Party

The Greens’ influence over drug policy is being marginalised and young New Zealanders are the better for it, United Future social services spokeswoman Judy Turner said today. More >>

Ogilvy: More under-16s allowed to leave school

Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 9:23 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future education spokesman Bernie Ogilvy has revealed a 37 % rise in the past five years in the number of students allowed to drop out of school before they reach the leaving age of 16. More >>

Marc My Words - No Excuse For Paedophilia

Friday, 22 October 2004, 4:58 pm | United Future NZ Party

Recently I received an email from a person who signed himself off as a ‘person traumatised by anti-paedophilia hysteria in an anti-paedophile world’. Let me say from the outset that I am glad that we do live in such a world – I can find no excuse, ever, for ... More >>

Right to benefit balanced with responsibility

Friday, 22 October 2004, 4:09 pm | United Future NZ Party

Those who are in difficulty or hardship should expect the support of the State, but with that right comes wider responsibilities to the community that supports them, such as not continuing to produce children they can't afford to raise, United Future ... More >>