WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
Deborah Coddington, NZ Herald
“If there's one person who understands the workings of MMP more than any other politician in the House of Twisted Faces, it's United Future's leader Hon Peter Dunne...”
“It doesn't pay to mock Dunne, I've learned over the past year... He's one who does make a difference...”
Audrey Young, NZ Herald
“This week we started to see some startling developments involving small parties...result[ing from] organisation between former adversaries who have decided to combine forces... to better use their collective muscle, with the ability to act almost as a second opposition grouping...."
"...it involves a minister of the Crown, United Future leader Peter Dunne, in a more active level of opposition politics than seen before. More of the same is promised.”
David Young & Ben Thomas, National Business Review
“Is Peter Dunne the hottest politician in New Zealand right now?... He was the driving force behind the government's decision to extend daylight savings by three weeks…[but this] pales in comparison to his later heroics helping front the compromise between National, Labour and the Greens on Sue Bradford's child discipline bill or his earlier feat marshalling United Future, Act, the Greens and the Maori Party to jointly announce their support for the repeal of sedition laws.”
“Dunne... has managed to keep the government honest... and genuinely look like the "common-sense" bridge builder”
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Bill Ralston, in his Herald on Sunday column, celebrates an outbreak of UnitedFuture http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=93&objectid=10506402&pnum=0: commonsense