Gender Affairs

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It is UnitedFuture policy to:

  • Rename and refocus the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to the Ministry of Gender Affairs, recognising that the specific needs of both need to be addressed.
  • Recognise that men and women are both perpetrators and victims and target family violence policy accordingly.
  • Advocate individual professions to promote refresher courses for people returning to the workforce;
  • Encourage individual professions to retain valued staff by adopting part-time work policies when necessary.
  • Promote better work-life balance for parents.
  • End gender discrimination, recognising that both women and men can face unwelcome discrimination.
  • Extend paid and unpaid parental leave to both parents.
  • Recognise the imperative for fathers to bond with their newborns by an extension of parental leave.
  • Support flexible working hours.
  • Change the law to a presumption of shared parenting in custody disputes as it is usually in the best interests of the child to continue his/her relationship with both parents.

Gender Affairs

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Hon Peter Dunne on the tax debate

Opening Statement to Parliament – 9 February 2010

I will concentrate my remarks this afternoon on the Tax Working Group, on some of the changes it has recommended, and on some of the changes that will flow from those changes...

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