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Promoting and protecting our environment, culture and heritage
Culture and heritage
- Almost $40 million over four years to support Television New Zealand, Radio New Zealand, New Zealand on Air and the Broadcasting Standards Authority. [$14.6 million to RNZ already announced.]
- $1 million over four years for iwi radio.
- $6.5 million for an information programme on the Treaty of Waitangi and a further $5.9 million over the next four years for the Treaty settlement process.
- $34 million in 2003-04 to lift participation in sport, and another $11 million for additional sports coordinators in secondary schools.
Environment
- $2 million over the next two years to improve water management.
Announced pre-budget
Environment
- An additional $1.3 million to EnergyWise Home Grants to insulate the homes of low income families.
- $200,000 to the Solar Hot Water Grants scheme.
- Increase from $1 million a year to $2 million for the Crown Energy Efficiency Loan Scheme.
- $1.2 million over two years for a public information campaign on low sulphur diesel.
- $2 million a year for four years from next year for the Renewable Energy Market Development Fund.
Culture and heritage
- Radio New Zealand funding increase: $14.6 million over four years.
- Creative New Zealand: $11.6 million over four years.
- Royal New Zealand Ballet: $2 million over four years.
- $15.2 million over four years to establish a Heritage Preservation Fund and increase funding to the Historic Places Trust, the Department of Conservation and the
Antarctic Heritage Trust.
- $3.5 million to build a new field store at Scott Base.
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