Ohariu MP and Leader of UnitedFuture Hon Peter Dunne welcomed today’s joint announcement between the Government and Wellington City Council to open up more areas for housing in the Wellington region.

Hon Peter Dunne travelled to the South Island’s West Coast with Minister of Conservation Hon Dr Nick Smith today to inspect the windfall damage caused by Cyclone Ita.

Hon Peter Dunne addresses the House in the General Debate 18/06/2014

 It is worth remembering that one of the most important roles an electorate Member of Parliament has is to advocate on behalf of constituents when they have an issue with the government or one of its agencies.

UnitedFuture leader and Ōhariu MP Peter Dunne says it is time for the Labour Party to come clean on its intentions for the Transmission Gully Highway, north of Wellington.

UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne has announced the first group of UnitedFuture electorate candidates for this year’s General Election.

At some point in the next five to 10 years, the BandAid of current health funding is going to either snap or wear out, and governments will simply not be able to bridge the gap.

“Rich boys and their toys” usually describes the obsession of wealthy men to use their wealth to achieve something they can do only through their wealth, because they lack the ability to ever be likely to do otherwise. The success of magnates like Alan Bond and more recently Larry Ellison in winning yachting’s America’s Cup by bankrolling campaigns rather than any innate sailing ability of their own comes quickly to mind, but they are by no means exclusive examples.

At one level, all of us are migrants – it is just a matter of when we arrived here. At another, if you believe New Zealand First’s bigots and Labour’s xenophobes, we are being overrun today by hordes of migrants arriving here with the expressed purpose of buying up all our houses.

UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne and Outdoors spokesperson Alan Simmons are relieved by this afternoon’s announcement to reject the proposed monorail through Fiordland’s Snowdon Forest.