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20 Nov 2003
Speech: Families Commission Bill - Second Reading speech
It gives me great pleasure to rise in support of the second reading of the Families Commission Bill.

20 Nov 2003
Release: Dunne slams ‘hand-wringing’ Opposition
United Future leader Peter Dunne today launched a scathing attack on Opposition critics of the Families Commission Bill who “a week ago in this House were falling over themselves to wring their hands with concern over the deaths of two young Wairarapa children”.

20 Nov 2003
Release: Turner gives spurned submitters a voice
United Future family affairs spokeswoman Judy Turner today saluted the 58 Families Commission Bill submitters spurned by the Opposition parties in the select committee process.

19 Nov 2003
Release: Copeland: Govt telling business ‘you do our job on national security’
New Zealand importers and exporters will be carrying a nation’s burden if the Government goes ahead with its plan to have them pay for new measures improving security at our ports, United Future’s Gordon Copeland said today.

17 Nov 2003
Release: MP delighted by Hockey Club salvation
United Future MP and Petone Community Board Deputy Chair, Murray Smith is delighted with the decision of the Community Board to recommend that the Council grant the Petone Hockey Club a long term lease of its current clubrooms on Petone Recreation Ground on a reduced area basis.

14 Nov 2003
Release: Dunne writes to insulted select committee submitters
United Future leader Peter Dunne has written to all those who made select committee submissions on the Families Commission Bill, only to have them completely ignored because of an unprecedented stunt by National, ACT, NZ First and the Greens.

12 Nov 2003
Release: Turner: Split investigation staff from ongoing care
The latest report on CYFS’ role in yet another tragedy serves to highlight the need to split its investigative and ongoing care functions, United Future’s Judy Turner said today.

12 Nov 2003
Release: Smith challenges schools’ review
The draft proposal issued by the Ministry of Education in regard to Upper Hutt schools will increase rather than reduce government's costs, United Future MP, Murray Smith, told a meeting of over 500 parents at Upper Hutt last night.

12 Nov 2003
Release: Turner: Only one party looking after families
One can only hope that the fact that the Families Commission Bill returns to Parliament untouched on the very same day a report is released on CYFS involvement with a family in which two little girls were murdered, would give National, ACT and NZ First politicians pause for thought, United Future’s Judy Turner said today.

12 Nov 2003
Release: Dunne calls on Opposition to lift its family game
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, has called on the Opposition parties to put genuine effort into their commitment to the needs of New Zealand families.

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