Mr Dunne says the best way of addressing the  significant number of children who go to school to hungry is through the recently rejuvenated KidsCan scheme.

UnitedFuture Leader addresses the 2013 Annual Party Conference. He discusses the importance of communities and families.

On the eve of United Future's annual conference, party leader Peter Dunne says he has regained his enthusiasm for politics and is looking forward to standing again in the Ohariu electorate next year.

Karl Marx once said famously that the thing to learn from history is that people do not.

That certainly seems to be the case with the Police when it comes to dealing with sexual abuse matters. During 2006-07 we had the trials of former Police officers on historical rape charges, which led to the highly critical Bazley Report in 2007. As a consequence, we were led to believe that the Police had ‘turned the corner”, not just in terms of their own culture, but also in how they dealt with sexual abuse cases generally.

The debate about potential coalitions after the next election raises the more fundamental question of the role of political parties, especially in a multiparty environment. At its most basic level politics can be described as the mobilisation of bias.

UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne is calling on the Labour Party to say where it stands on the building of the Transmission Gully Highway.

The greatest football game in town kicked off again this week – and I am not referring to the epic All Blacks/Springboks test at Ellis Park last weekend.

Resource management issues are very prominent on the current political agenda, and reveal a great deal about the National Party’s attitude to the environment.

UnitedFuture Leader Peter Dunne is concerned about the situation at Malvina Major Retirement Village in his electorate following the recently reported case.