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Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced that the Queen has approved the recommendation of the government to discontinue in future the titles of Sir and Dame in the New Zealand honours system.

The government announced today that it would proceed with a bill granting posthumous pardons to five New Zealand soldiers executed during World War One for desertion or mutiny following the emergence of evidence that the men suffered from shell shock or illness.

The Acting Minister of Commerce Trevor Mallard has today announced the Government's decisions on general tariff levels.

Minister of Corrections, Matt Robson will deliver a key note speech at the Oceanic Regional Heads Of Prisons, meeting at Hawkes Bay Prison tomorrow.

The Minister of Local Government, Hon Sandra Lee, has told Cabinet today she has accepted a Ministerial Review Authority recommendation to appoint a Commission to replace the elected representatives of the Rodney District Council.

There is currently no official electronic version of New Zealand legislation. The Government is taking the next steps in a process designed to remedy that gap," said Attorney-General, Margaret Wilson.

Containers and their cargo from known "high risk" countries will be subjected to an increased level of inspection following the unprecedented discovery of three snakes in recent weeks, the Minister for Biosecurity, Marian Hobbs, said today.

Material is being sent to schools showing how they can be more responsive to Maori needs and meet the aspirations of Maori for better access to education, said Associate Education Minister Parekura Horomia today.

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The Minister of Social Services and Employment, Steve Maharey, today commended Mayors from across New Zealand attending the Mayors Taskforce for Jobs meeting in Christchurch for taking local political leadership on the jobs issue.

The Minister of Labour, Hon Margaret Wilson, today welcomed as "timely and significant" the release of a recent research report entitled Case Study Research in the Accommodation, Winemaking and Brewing Industries.

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Thank-you for the opportunity to talk to you today about electronic commerce and government policy. In fact opportunity is the underlying theme of my speech - particularly the opportunity that change can open up.

"I congratulate those inmates here today who have shown the initiative to take part in a new programme designed to cut rates of re-offending. It gives me and all New Zealanders hope for the future," says Minister of Corrections Matt Robson.

New Zealand's Commerce Act is being strengthened to give the Commerce Commission more teeth and to bring New Zealand in line with its key trading partner Australia

Parliament today adopted a motion congratulating a small South Island dairy company on beating all comers to win the gold medal for best cheese in the world at the Wisconsin World Champion Cheese Contest.