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$110m poured into blindly separating families
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 4:16 pm | United Future NZ Party
Almost $110 million has been spent separating teenagers from their parents by means of the Independent Youth Benefit since 2001, with virtually no checks and balances, United Future's Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Copeland backs BRT family analysis
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 2:19 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future Revenue spokesperson, Gordon Copeland, says the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, Roger Kerr, has got it completely right when he comments on the undesirability of the government gambling against the traditional ... More >>
NZ fishers betrayed by Greens, ACT and ‘Ashraf’
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 9:02 am | United Future NZ Party
The Greens, ACT and NZ First this evening betrayed New Zealand’s recreational fishers, United Future’s Larry Baldock said after his SOP to withdraw kahawai from the Quota Management System, under the Fisheries No3 Amendment Bill, was voted down in Parliament. More >>
Turner: Mental illness link to dope holds true
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 2:38 pm | United Future NZ Party
The strong link between cannabis use and mental illness drawn today by the Hawke's Bay Clinical Director of Mental Health simply adds weight to the overwhelming evidence of the damage the drug is doing, United Future's Judy Turner says. More >>
Smith challenges Law Society
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 1:22 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Murray Smith says claims by the executive director of the Law Society, in regard to the disposition of 2/3rds of the legal profession’s fidelity fund, that "the profession contributed the money and the profession will decide" are deliberately ... More >>
Baldock: Moment of truth over fisheries
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 8:42 am | United Future NZ Party
The Greens and ACT will face moments of truth for very different reasons when an amendment to remove kahawai from the Quota Management System is voted on in Parliament tomorrow, United Future fisheries spokesman Larry Baldock says. More >>
Smith: Parents right to be angry
Monday, 30 August 2004, 2:53 pm | United Future NZ Party
Parents who have vital information about their children kept from them have every right to be angry with the medical professionals, schools and counsellors who deny them that information, United Future MP Murray Smith said today, in announcing that ... More >>
State driving a wedge between parents and teens
Monday, 30 August 2004, 11:28 am | United Future NZ Party
Law that stops parents being informed of traumatic events in their children's lives is the State driving a wedge between parents and children and needs to be changed, United Future's Judy Turner said today. More >>
Maori back UF foreshore position
Monday, 30 August 2004, 12:56 am | United Future NZ Party
Maori submitters on the Foreshore and Seabed Bill have confirmed that United Future's solution to the problems raised by the Court of Appeal decision would have been acceptable to Maori, says United Future's Maori issues spokesperson, Murray Smith. More >>
Dunne: Zaoui case cracks a million
Friday, 27 August 2004, 2:07 pm | United Future NZ Party
Asylum-seeker Ahmed Zaoui has cost the taxpayers at least one million dollars, according to figures released today by United Future leader Peter Dunne, who renewed his call to end the "Zaoui industry". More >>
Marc My Words…by Marc Alexander MP
Friday, 27 August 2004, 9:41 am | United Future NZ Party
The plight of elders in the community is a shameful reminder of how we devalue those who have contributed most. In the last few years we have seen this government ram through a number of dubious social ‘feel-good’ policies aimed at ‘satisfying’ various ... More >>
Alexander welcomes keeping payouts from prisoners
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 4:19 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander congratulated Justice Minister Phil Goff for today signalling that legislative changes will be make sure the victims of crime will benefit from any compensation paid to prisoners for their treatment ... More >>
The cost of the Bill of Rights
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 1:01 pm | United Future NZ Party
Something is seriously wrong when prisoners jailed for denying their victims' rights - in one case the right to live - can turn around and demand their "supposed rights" from society, United Future's Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Baldock Calls For Cool Heads In Fishing Industry
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 12:55 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future fisheries spokesman Larry Baldock today called on the fishing industry to be reasonable in its demand for kahawai, and to recognise that it is taking its share directly from the country's recreational fishers. More >>
Glaring omission in roading study
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 5:13 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Allen Report on the benefits of investing in New Zealand’s roading infrastructure released today has one glaring omission, according to United Future leader, Peter Dunne. More >>
Income Splitting Is The Answer
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 2:26 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future revenue spokesperson Gordon Copeland has again spelt out why income splitting for couples raising children should have a place in New Zealand’s income tax future. More >>
Turner: Good Samaritan Shows Up Plodding Govt
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 1:46 pm | United Future NZ Party
The announcement of a ''one-stop parenting shop'' generously funded by an anonymous donor just further highlights the plodding, ineffective Government approach to supporting families, United Future's Judy Turner said today. More >>
Baldock: UF Backs Recreational Fisherman
Tuesday, 24 August 2004, 3:35 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future will support the second reading of the Fisheries No3 Amendment Bill, conditional on the deferring of the introduction of kahawai stocks into the Quota Management System, its fisheries spokesman, Larry Baldock, said today. More >>
Turner: Fine Words, Actions Awaited
Monday, 23 August 2004, 4:35 pm | United Future NZ Party
Social Development Minister Steve Maharey's call for community answers to child abuse would ring truer if the Government actually took meaningful steps to involve community services in helping, rather than just talking about it, United Future's ... More >>
Ogilvy: School Deficits Double In Eight Years
Monday, 23 August 2004, 1:04 pm | United Future NZ Party
The deficits carried by New Zealand schools have doubled from $14 million to $29 million in the past eight years, United Future education spokesman Bernie Ogilvy said today. More >>
