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Copeland slaps Govt hand in Origin Pacific's demis
Thursday, 13 May 2004, 4:22 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Government's continuing support for Air New Zealand has undoubtedly played a part in the Origin Pacific crisis by "screwing the scrum", United Future's Gordon Copeland said today. More >>
Copeland supports making work pay initiative
Thursday, 13 May 2004, 4:21 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future revenue spokesperson Gordon Copeland today endorsed the “making work pay” principle which will be central to the family support measures contained in this year’s Budget. More >>
Copeland: ‘Stingy’ Govt hamstrings charities
Thursday, 13 May 2004, 4:00 pm | United Future NZ Party
The Government’s “unbelievably stingy” tax policies on charitable donations are a huge obstacle to CYFS contracting out family intervention work to community organisations as recommended in the Brown Report three years ago, United Future’s Gordon Copeland ... More >>
Adams welcomes Govt support for teenagers
Thursday, 13 May 2004, 12:50 am | United Future NZ Party
United Future’s youth and employment spokesman, Paul Adams, today welcomed the $57 million Budget initiative announced today that will provide extra help for young people making the transition from school to work. More >>
Dunne goes to bat for struggling NZ families
Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 4:17 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader Peter Dunne today laid out a comprehensive programme to ease the financial burden on the average working New Zealand family. More >>
Turner: Benefit stress figures a cause for stress
Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 2:39 pm | United Future NZ Party
Stress is becoming a major reason why an increasing number of people are unable to work, if recent sickness and invalid benefits figures are anything to go by, United Future's Judy Turner said today. More >>
Research in line with Alexander's book
Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 9:10 am | United Future NZ Party
A leading Christchurch researcher's findings that badly behaved seven-year-olds are often headed for a life of crime, drugs, teen parenthood and mental illness square with the premise and conclusions of the book launched by United Future Christchurch ... More >>
Alexander calls for prisons 'league table'
Tuesday, 11 May 2004, 3:48 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future MP Marc Alexander today called for a prisons "league table" as he continued his battle to keep the privately run Auckland Central Remand Prison open. More >>
Dunne Speech Auckland Regional party conference
Monday, 10 May 2004, 8:29 am | United Future NZ Party
They agree with our contention that the family is the building block of society, and that when families are strong and vibrant, society will flourish. More >>
Mark Blumsky Speech: President, United Future
Monday, 10 May 2004, 8:19 am | United Future NZ Party
Mark Blumsky Speech: President, United Future A Centre Party's Political Realities United Future, Auckland Regional Conference Saturday, 8 May, 2004 More >>
Turner: Smacking should not overshadow SKIP
Friday, 7 May 2004, 11:15 am | United Future NZ Party
The fact that the newly launched SKIP parenting programme is not bogged down in smacking ideology is a plus, United Future's Judy Turner said today. More >>
Marc My Words
Friday, 7 May 2004, 11:09 am | United Future NZ Party
Single income families are a dying breed. Only 24% of two parent families can afford to have one parent at home to look after their kids. That's well down from a generation ago and, given the 'rosy' economic statistics this Government trots out ad nauseam, ... More >>
Unity and nationhood during foreshore debate
Thursday, 6 May 2004, 5:34 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, warned Parliament today that the country risked being torn apart, unless the House could speak unequivocally on the Government’s foreshore and seabed legislation. More >>
Dunne: civil unions slipping out of sight?
Thursday, 6 May 2004, 5:32 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, today suggested that the Government may be surreptitiously trying to slip its controversial Civil Unions Bill out of sight. More >>
Alexander: Home detention for child porn must stop
Thursday, 6 May 2004, 12:56 am | United Future NZ Party
When a Blenheim man convicted on 30 charges of collecting and distributing 455 images of babies and young children being raped and violently sexually abused gets just eight months of home detention, then the law is an ass, United Future's Marc Alexander ... More >>
Copeland applauds 'softening' Govt border position
Wednesday, 5 May 2004, 5:53 pm | United Future NZ Party
United Future's customs spokesman, Gordon Copeland, today welcomed the Government's decision to review how the cost of providing passenger clearance services at New Zealand's international airports is funded. More >>
Alexander: Dealers should do time for users' crime
Wednesday, 5 May 2004, 3:34 pm | United Future NZ Party
Drug dealers should be charged as accessories to the crimes committed by users either under the influence of the drugs they sold or getting the cash to buy them, United Future law and order spokesman said today in launching his new book, Justice With ... More >>
New approach to law, order and justice
Wednesday, 5 May 2004, 3:31 pm | United Future NZ Party
A Ministry of Victims' Affairs, making home security costs tax deductible and judge-only night courts to cut through the backlog of court cases are just three of the recommendations in United Future MP Marc Alexander's new book Justice With Both Eyes Open, launched ... More >>
Alexander: No job, no parole
Wednesday, 5 May 2004, 3:28 pm | United Future NZ Party
In calling for increased Parole Board accountability for its decisions, United Future MP Marc Alexander also says it should be "no job, no parole" in his book, Justice with Both Eyes Open, which was launched at Parliament this evening. More >>
Turner: 25,000 new DPB births in past five years
Tuesday, 4 May 2004, 4:03 pm | United Future NZ Party
Nearly 25,000 DPB recipients had further children at taxpayers' expense in the last five years, while single-income families have effectively been penalised for choosing to have a parent at home to raise their children, United Future's Judy Turner revealed ... More >>
