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Copeland welcomes Project Aqua review
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 1:09 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future energy spokesperson Gordon Copeland today welcomed confirmation from the Hon Mark Burton, Minister for State Owned Enterprises, that an independent expert from PriceWaterhouseCoopers Australia has been appointed to carry out a post-project ... More >>
Alexander outraged at killer driver’s sentence
Monday, 13 September 2004, 5:07 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander is appalled at the ‘extremely light’ prison term of three and a half years prison that’s been handed down to a hit and run driver who has racked up more than 75 convictions for dangerous driving. More >>
Smith Slams Medical Associations
Monday, 13 September 2004, 4:26 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future justice spokesperson, Murray Smith, has strongly criticized the objections from the GP and Medical Associations to informing parents of the fact when their young daughters fall pregnant. More >>
Greens’ ignorance endangers kahawai
Monday, 13 September 2004, 2:48 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future fisheries spokesman, Larry Baldock, today poured scorn on claims from the Greens co-leader, Jeanette Fitzsimons, that she has successfully negotiated agreements with the Minister of Fisheries that will save New Zealand’s dwindling stocks of kahawai ... More >>
Smith: Timid Govt tampers with justice
Friday, 10 September 2004, 11:27 am | United Future NZ Party
A lack of legal expertise in key ministerial positions means the Government tends to tamper with a legal system that needs “radical changes”, United Future justice spokesman Murray Smith said today. More >>
Marc My Words: 10 Sep 2004
Friday, 10 September 2004, 11:03 am | United Future NZ Party
Justice, in the hands of a human rights lawyer, is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. More >>
Dunne delighted Govt uplifting UF's CYFS policy
Thursday, 9 September 2004, 3:42 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Government today confirmed that it was looking at uplifting two key United Future policy planks on restructuring CYFS, with a Bill that may come before Parliament as early as next week. More >>
Adams: Abortion documentary provides a challenge
Thursday, 9 September 2004, 2:02 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Paul Adams said the abortion documentary screened on TV1 last night raised important issues and would hopefully lead to women being more informed about the reality and consequences of abortion. More >>
Smith: Forgotten majority face building woes
Thursday, 9 September 2004, 1:37 pm | United Future NZ Party
The greatest fallout from the deregistering of private building certifier ABC is not with those currently awaiting approvals, but with those whose buildings have been certified by the firm over the years and who now have no hope of compensation ... More >>
Gaming Trust problem sorted
Thursday, 9 September 2004, 10:45 am | United Future NZ Party
A potential major problem in relation to New Zealand’s 641 Gaming Trusts has been resolved following representations by United Future Revenue spokesman Gordon Copeland to Finance Minister Dr Michael Cullen. More >>
Alexander: Ministry's Surprise A Joke
Tuesday, 7 September 2004, 3:41 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Justice Ministry's surprise that a tougher sentencing regime is actually being enacted and putting more people in jail reflects badly on the competence of that ministry and its advice, United Future's Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Baldock Welcomes Solar Heating Move
Monday, 6 September 2004, 12:53 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future environment spokesman Larry Baldock welcomes the Government’s latest announcement on moves to boost solar water heating in New Zealand homes, but warns the industry needs time and certainty to make it work. More >>
Figures don’t say why schools run bigger deficits?
Friday, 3 September 2004, 9:45 am | United Future NZ Party
Figures released by Education Minister Trevor Mallard still fail to answer why the total combined deficit incurred by schools doubled from $14 million to $29 million in the past eight years, United Future’s Bernie Ogilvy says. More >>
Industry training demonstrably successful
Friday, 3 September 2004, 12:54 am | United Future NZ Party
The 19% increase for 2003 in trainees participating in Industry Training Organisations (ITOs) is a great result and evidence of the advantages to be found in industries, United Future education spokesperson Bernie Ogilvy said today. More >>
Alexander calls for retrospective law change
Friday, 3 September 2004, 12:11 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future law and order spokesman, Marc Alexander, is appalled a judge has ordered the Corrections Department to pay five criminals $130,000 compensation for their treatment while being held in Paremoremo Prison. More >>
United Future Retraction Re: Winston Peters
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 7:25 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future fisheries spokesman Larry Baldock unreservedly retracts his statement of Tuesday, 31 August, headed "NZ Fishers betrayed by Greens, ACT and 'Ashraf' Peters", in respect of the comments that related to Mr Peters. More >>
Bring in Fred Hollows Foundation or fund surgery
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 4:25 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Government should either fund eye treatment for New Zealanders properly or ask the Fred Hollows Foundation to add us in with Bangladesh and Nepal in the queue for charitable treatment, United Future's Judy Turner said today. More >>
Marc My Words: 2 September 2004 - Youth Benefits
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 4:01 pm | United Future NZ Party
Recently I have been prompted by a spate of angry parents complaining that the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has been paying kids to split from their families. I'm referring to the Independent Youth Benefit. More >>
Dunne: Aussies calling our foreign policy line?
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 4:18 pm | United Future NZ Party
A Foreign Affairs official told Taiwanese authorities that Taiwanese Minister Lin Yi-fu would not be allowed into New Zealand because he wasn't being allowed into Australia, casting huge doubt on the autonomy of New Zealand policy, United Future ... More >>
Dunne: Time for Goff to come clean on Taiwan
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 4:17 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne is calling on Foreign Minister Phil Goff to come clean on the New Zealand Government’s dealings with Ministers of the Taiwan Government. More >>
