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Turner: Judge's comments on the mark
Tuesday, 25 May 2004, 2:37 pm | United Future NZ Party
The recent call by Principal Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft to split youth justice from CYFS was yet further recognition that the department's mandate was simply too broad, United Future's Judy Turner said today. More >>
Alexander: Parole Board lunacy
Tuesday, 25 May 2004, 9:50 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Marc Alexander today joined with the Taxi Federation in slamming the release from prison six months into the four-year sentence of a man who stabbed a taxi driver 17 times with a carving fork. More >>
Dunne demands constitutional reform
Monday, 24 May 2004, 3:41 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today strongly reiterated his call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s constitutional arrangements. More >>
Dunne: Govt Again Shows Anti-family Colours
Monday, 24 May 2004, 3:00 pm | United Future NZ Party
By proposing that 12-year-olds having sex be legalised, the Government that has tried to bring lesbian dads and gay marriages has yet again shown that it has no respect for the New Zealand family and the real protection of our children, United ... More >>
Turner: Family teams sound suspiciously familiar
Monday, 24 May 2004, 2:52 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Government's plan to pilot family safety teams to ensure collaboration between the police, CYFS and other agencies is a direct pick-up from the United Future policy paper released last month, United Future's Judy Turner said today. More >>
UF backs keeping Whenuapai as airport
Friday, 21 May 2004, 2:11 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future is throwing its backing behind retaining the Whenuapai airbase as an airport, its transport spokesman, Larry Baldock, and two Auckland MPs, Paul Adams and Bernie Ogilvy, announced today. More >>
Copeland: Govt back-sliding on border security
Friday, 21 May 2004, 1:50 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Government's 80/20 cost splitting proposal on border security expenses - with exporters and importers picking up the larger part of the tab - is a farce and a dereliction of duty, United Future's Gordon Copeland said today. More >>
Marc My Words, 21 May 2004 - Justice or Just Is?
Friday, 21 May 2004, 9:39 am | United Future NZ Party
Last Monday I was in the High Court in Auckland along with members of the Sensible Sentencing Trust to support Tai Hobson's legal bid to hold the Corrections Department to account for their part in the death of his wife. More >>
Alexander: Best place to get drugs? In prisons!!
Thursday, 20 May 2004, 2:59 pm | United Future NZ Party
Up to a third of prison inmates in some prisons are likely stoned as Corrections Minister Paul Swain runs around putting a positive spin on the fast-sinking Corrections Department, United Future's Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Public domain does make a difference
Thursday, 20 May 2004, 11:19 am | United Future NZ Party
Speaking in Parliament yesterday United Future Whip Gordon Copeland reiterated the importance his party places on the words “public domain” in the context of the foreshore and seabed legislation. More >>
Wise use of Jack Illott Green proceeds urged
Thursday, 20 May 2004, 9:35 am | United Future NZ Party
Speaking in Parliament today on the Wellington City Council (Te Aro Reclamation) Amendment Bill, Miramar-based United Future MP Gordon Copeland urged the Wellington City Council to use any proceeds from the sale or lease of Jack Illott Green to be ... More >>
Alexander: Govt throws reason out window
Tuesday, 18 May 2004, 3:57 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Government has reduced itself to the level of a slathering street-corner ideologue with its pre-determined decision to close the privately run Auckland Central Remand Prison, United Future's Marc Alexander said today. More >>
Alexander backs accountability on parole decisions
Monday, 17 May 2004, 2:43 pm | United Future NZ Party
If the Crown loses the $550,000 murder-related damages lawsuit being taken against it by the widower of one of the three people slain in the 2001 Panmure RSA killings, then it might finally start to take its parole obligations seriously, United Future's ... More >>
Copeland compares apple ban to underarm bowling
Monday, 17 May 2004, 9:15 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Gordon Copeland, born and raised on an apple and pear orchard in Nelson, believes that Australia's import ban on New Zealand apples is simply another case of underarm bowling. More >>
Swain draws the line at commonsense
Monday, 17 May 2004, 8:41 am | United Future NZ Party
"Corrections Minister Paul Swain proves that, like super glue he will stick to outdated ideologies no matter how dim-witted they may be," United Future's Marc Alexander said. More >>
Marc My Words - 13 May 2004 - NZ Idle?
Friday, 14 May 2004, 3:28 pm | United Future NZ Party
Why do we isolate criminals in prison and insulate them from the obligation to earn their own upkeep? Why do we allow them to be indolent at our expense? More >>
Copeland: Common currency should be explored
Friday, 14 May 2004, 11:38 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future finance spokesman Gordon Copeland today added his voice to the growing chorus, on both sides of the Tasman, for a good hard look at the possibility of a common currency between Australia and New Zealand. More >>
Copeland welcomes Task Force
Friday, 14 May 2004, 11:36 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future superannuation spokesman Gordon Copeland today welcomed the Government's decision to set up a working group to foster private savings for retirement. More >>
Smith launches Parental Discipline Bill
Friday, 14 May 2004, 11:34 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future's Murray Smith today launched a member's bill on the physical disciplining of children "to inject common sense, balance and detail into an area in which the debate has lacked all of the above". More >>
International Day of the Family
Friday, 14 May 2004, 10:58 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today urged the Government to celebrate May 15, the International Day of the Family, in a positive way by committing itself to more of United Future’s family-friendly policies. More >>
