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United Future splits on docking of dogs’ tails

Thursday, 21 October 2004, 12:07 am | United Future NZ Party

Last night’s vote in Parliament on a Bill introducing restrictions on the docking of dogs’ tails shows yet again that United Future is the ultimate centrist party, according to party whip Gordon Copeland. More >>

Audited accounts a must for public hand-outs

Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 4:47 pm | United Future NZ Party

The Government is dishing out millions of dollars of public money to organisations without audited accounts, and the public is picking up the tab each time those funds are misused and misappropriated, United Future's Gordon Copeland said today. More >>

Copeland: Superannuation Savings

Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 2:37 pm | United Future NZ Party

Submission To The Savings Product Working Group’s Report “A Future For Work Based Savings In New Zealand” More >>

Report shows there was no Corngate cover-up

Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 1:48 pm | United Future NZ Party

The most significant finding of the Corngate inquiry is that there was no cover-up, United Future environment spokesman Larry Baldock said today. More >>

Turner: CYFS stats nothing to crow about

Friday, 15 October 2004, 4:05 pm | United Future NZ Party

CYFS' quicker response times for the most urgent cases are a step in the right direction, but should not hide the fact that it is falling well short in the vast majority of cases, United Future welfare and families spokeswoman Judy Turner said today. More >>

Marc My Words - Ethics Versus Profit

Friday, 15 October 2004, 11:43 am | United Future NZ Party

Recently the issue of compensation for criminals has reared its head, and despite public anger, the solution to the dilemma seems mired in the mud of political correctness. More >>

Adams: Business NZ needs to get real

Thursday, 14 October 2004, 12:27 am | United Future NZ Party

The rigid right-wing ideologues of Business New Zealand have lost the plot, United Future's Paul Adams said today. More >>

UF slams ‘Treaty nonsense’ in Housing NZ

Thursday, 14 October 2004, 12:13 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader, Peter Dunne, today called on Housing Minister Steve Maharey to instruct immediately his Housing New Zealand officials to put an end to the ‘Treaty nonsense’ that surrounds the appointment of middle managers at the State agency. More >>

Eagle eye required on oil price impacts

Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 5:22 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future energy spokesperson Gordon Copeland believes that the escalation in the price of crude oil to beyond $US50 constitutes a new risk to New Zealand’s continued economic growth. More >>

Tahr, deer as indigenous as Mallard, says Baldock

Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 3:38 pm | United Future NZ Party

If it's good enough for Labour's Trevor Mallard to consider himself indigenous, then it's high time his colleague, Conservation Minister Chris Carter, applied the same standards to creatures such as tahr, whose forebears have inhabited this land ... More >>

Baldock moves for mid-March for foreshore report

Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 3:14 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future's Larry Baldock today moved that the select committee probing the foreshore and seabed legislation provide an interim report to Parliament by next month and extend the deadline for the final report to mid-March next year. More >>

Adams Backs 'Intelligent' Open Road Speed Limits

Monday, 11 October 2004, 3:19 pm | United Future NZ Party

United Future's Paul Adams today came out in support of a move away from a blanket 100kph open road speed limit. More >>

Public backs constitutional inquiry

Monday, 11 October 2004, 11:35 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future leader, Peter Dunne, a long-time proponent of an inquiry into New Zealand’s constitutional arrangements, says he’s delighted to see the latest poll confirms the public agrees with him. More >>

UF MP’s: Re-direct road funding to Wgton, Tauranga

Monday, 11 October 2004, 10:40 am | United Future NZ Party

Ohariu-Belmont MP, Peter Dunne, and Tauranga-based MP, Larry Baldock, say the weekend’s local body elections have thrown up one obvious message; Aucklanders don’t want to spend money on roads while the people of Wellington and Tauranga do. More >>

Marc My Words: Govt And Marriage Don't Mix

Friday, 8 October 2004, 3:16 pm | United Future NZ Party

Why are we forcing elders whose spouses are in long-term care to repudiate their marital status just to access their rightful entitlements? It is an affront to those who value enduring marriages that a directive from the Social Security Appeal Authority ... More >>

Kyoto Protocol creates problems for government

Friday, 8 October 2004, 2:13 pm | United Future NZ Party

The carbon tax arising under the Kyoto Protocol may well be in conflict with the government’s policy priority to improve the security and supply of electricity, according to United Future energy spokesperson Gordon Copeland. More >>

UF rejects NZ First request

Friday, 8 October 2004, 12:26 am | United Future NZ Party

United Future whip Gordon Copeland says the party caucus has rejected a request from New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, for all other parties to remove their private Members’ Bills from the Parliamentary ballot to allow his Bill, calling for ... More >>