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Turner: Perhaps Now The Minister Will Listen
Monday, 26 July 2004, 12:06 am | United Future NZ Party
The Government should require sickness and invalid beneficiaries to seek treatment, and not just be given a scrap of paper saying they can’t work, United Future’s Judy Turner said today. More >>
Dunne: Local Govt Forum is ACT in drag
Friday, 23 July 2004, 5:33 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Local Government Forum still does not get it, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today. United Future's plan to take the GST off rates is about helping low and fixed income property owners hit by high property rates because of the explosion ... More >>
Critics miss point in GST and rates debate
Friday, 23 July 2004, 12:25 am | United Future NZ Party
Critics of United Future's proposal to remove GST on rates have missed the point, according to the party's revenue spokesperson Gordon Copeland. More >>
Dunne: Whinging ideologues add nothing of value
Thursday, 22 July 2004, 11:37 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today slammed the "pontificating, do-nothing arrogance" of the Local Government Forum over its opposition to United Future's campaign to remove GST from rates. More >>
Local Government Forum should do Tax Law 101
Thursday, 22 July 2004, 12:15 am | United Future NZ Party
The Local Government Forum is factually wrong to suggest that removing GST on rates would raise costs for everyone, United Future revenue spokesman Gordon Copeland said today. More >>
Govt congratulated for taking up UF initiative
Wednesday, 21 July 2004, 1:49 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future Bay of Plenty MP Judy Turner today congratulated the Government for taking up her call to match public donations for victims of this week's flooding dollar for dollar. More >>
New scallop regulations unsafe for divers
Wednesday, 21 July 2004, 1:03 pm | United Future NZ Party
Regulations which force divers to spend more time on the bottom, measuring each scallop, will result in deaths, Stephanie Railey, of the Outdoor Recreation Party, said today. More >>
Dunne tells of a business-friendly future
Wednesday, 21 July 2004, 12:48 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne this evening told a meeting of Hamilton business groups that the Government needs to look at tools such as infrastructure bonds to boost investment in neglected nationwide infrastructure. More >>
Better access protection for land sales welcomed
Tuesday, 20 July 2004, 2:21 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future finance spokesman Gordon Copeland together with Paul Check of Outdoor Recreation NZ today lent their support to the Government's announcements concerning the sale of land and other assets to overseas buyers. More >>
GST on rates is a rip-off
Tuesday, 20 July 2004, 2:16 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today told a Hawke's Bay Grey Power audience that he recognised the particular unfairness of pensioners and others on limited incomes having to pay GST on their rates bills - "a tax on a tax". More >>
Alexander: Tougher sentences for looters
Tuesday, 20 July 2004, 12:08 am | United Future NZ Party
Looters who prey on the victims of emergencies should get tougher sentences than "garden variety" thieves, United Future's Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Dunne puts all parties on notice - families first
Monday, 19 July 2004, 5:00 pm | United Future NZ Party
Families will never again be a political afterthought in New Zealand, United Future leader Peter Dunne said at the Families Commission launch this evening. More >>
Govt should match flood relief donations
Monday, 19 July 2004, 1:49 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future Bay of Plenty MP Judy Turner, who is today pitching in at a Whakatane flood evacuation centre, has called on the Government to match public donations for the victims of the weekend flooding in the Bay. More >>
Facts you won't hear from Nandor Tanczos
Friday, 16 July 2004, 3:30 pm | United Future NZ Party
In the past decade, the number of cannabis-users before the courts who were not facing other criminal charges has fallen by half, United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Marc My Words: 16 July 2004 - Who imprisons who?
Friday, 16 July 2004, 2:30 pm | United Future NZ Party
Lloyd McIntosh is a high-risk paedophile. In my opinion he is one of the most dangerous and violent sex offenders this country has ever known and should never be released. More >>
Dunne: Child abuse blow-out needs radical rethink
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 12:57 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future's proposed dual track child protection system is becoming even more necessary in the face of a blow-out of child abuse cases coming before CYFS, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today. More >>
Baldock: UF welcomes air quality standards
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 12:55 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future's environment spokesman Larry Baldock today welcomed the Government's air quality standards package. More >>
Enough reports; time for action on child abuse
Wednesday, 14 July 2004, 1:02 pm | United Future NZ Party
Making New Zealand Fit for Children, a Unicef report released today is the latest indictment of the Government's approach to child welfare in this country, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today. More >>
National adopts UF law and order policy
Monday, 12 July 2004, 2:07 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future’s law and order spokesman, Marc Alexander, says it’s very flattering and positive that National’s leader, Don Brash, is advocating United Future’s law and order policies. More >>
Dunne on Te Tai Hauauru by-election
Monday, 12 July 2004, 9:50 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today commented that the predictable outcome of the Te Tai Hauauru by-election showed it was an expensive waste of time. More >>
