Helen Mulford, New Zealand First candidate for the Pakuranga Electorate.  Helen and family are long time Pakuranga residents. 
Professionally Helen coordinates the Advocacy Services division of Spectrum Care Trust Board who provide a range of services to people who are intellectually and/or physically disabled and their families.  Her role involves advocacy both nationally and individually for families and staff.  She also works with senior government officials and representatives from other disability sector providers at a national level. 
Previous experience includes owning and running a tourist operation, being a Senior Negotiator with the ACC in Melbourne, Australia, working as a Legal Annotator and working with abused and neglected elderly with Age Concern, Counties Manukau.  Helen has also undertaken a great deal of community based work in a paid and volunteer capacity.
Main hobby involves retraining ex-harness race horses for riding so they can gain a second life after the Race Track. 
In the ten years of residing in the Pakuranga district she has become well acquainted with the issues in the area.   “I feel it is a great place to raise a family, but there are areas of concern around issues such as crime, opportunities for youth and safety on our roads.  As a parent of five teenage boys I would like to focus on youth related schemes within the Pakuranga electorate.  Our youth are our future and New Zealand First has common sense policies that will tackle the issues head on”.  
As the candidate for New Zealand First Helen will be promoting policies which ensure all New Zealanders, regardless of their background or where they come from are treated fairly and equally.

Top 5 Issues

1. We’ll have ONE LAW FOR ALL.
   
   Which means:
   
   • We all own our foreshore and seabed
   • We fly one flag
   • We have one court system
   • We follow one set of laws
   • We have one social welfare system
   • A NZ health system
   • A NZ education system
2. We will rebuild our failing economy with
   
   • Export plans to treble returns
   • Savings plans for economic freedom
   • NZ currency for NZ not Wall ST
   • Tax breaks for real wealth creators
   • Real research and development incentives
   • Rewards for the nation’s builders
3. We stand for a fair tax system, where everyone pays a fair share.
   
   So we are going to rewrite and simplify NZ’s mangle of tax laws so that they are understandable, unavoidable, and fair.
   
   Everyone will pay their fair taxes.
   
   That means:
   • Less personal tax
   • Less company tax
   • Less GST at 12.5 not 15%
   • Removing double tax on savings
   • Removing GST on rates
   • Removing secondary tax
4. Exporters create our real wealth. We have a plan to help them.
   
   New Zealand First will keep our currency pegged to that of our main trading partners.
   
   That way the exporters will be able to expand, increase exports and create new jobs, new wealth for the Family New Zealand
   
   We will stop the sale of state owned assets, and the control of our power stations and the lakes and rivers that feed them.
   Will stop the sale of our prime farmland to foreign interests.
5. We need to support our young people to stay, live and work in New Zealand. Here are just some of our policies:
   
   1) More trade training for our young people
   
   2) We will help pay the wages for apprentices using dole money and an employer top up
   
   3) We will help students pay their loans as long as they qualify and stay here
   
   4) And we’ll throw out fictitious national standards in early education opposed by 90% of the teachers

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