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Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff visits Indonesia and Malaysia over the coming week.

Both Indonesia and Malaysia attended last week’s regional conference in Bali on people smuggling along with New Zealand.

THEME 2: How do we build on existing regional and multilateral efforts to work cooperatively to stop smugglers and trafficking in persons, including women and children?

ACT Leader, Richard Prebble’s blatantly inaccurate use of statistics and misstatements of fact undermine his party’s credibility, Justice Minister Phil Goff said today.

Foreign Minister Phil Goff today introduced legislation making smuggling and trafficking of people into New Zealand criminal offences subject to severe penalties.

Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff and Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel depart tomorrow for Indonesia to participate in a regional conference against people smuggling.

Justice Minister Phil Goff released today a report by the Ministry of Justice on trends in alcohol-related problems following the lowering of the minimum legal drinking age from 20 to 18 in 1999.

Justice Minister Phil Goff today announced three important enhancements to the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill.

Former High Commissioners to Zimbabwe Chris Laidlaw and Bruce Middleton will be New Zealand’s representatives on the Commonwealth Observer Group for the presidential election in that country, Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff announced today.

Foreign Minister Phil Goff is appalled that Invercargill-born Sir Garfield Todd has been stripped of his Zimbabwe citizenship by the Mugabe regime.

Zimbabwe will be high on the agenda for New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff during his upcoming meetings with southern African leaders.

The ‘truth in sentencing’ policy dredged up again by ACT would cost hundreds of millions of dollars while being ineffective in reducing crime in the long-term, said Justice Minister Phil Goff today.

National’s ‘life means life’ announcement is an election year attempt to build a policy around a slogan.

The Commonwealth must move to suspend Zimbabwe from its membership says New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff.

Foreign Minister Phil Goff leaves this weekend for a four-nation visit to Latin America.

New Zealand will provide around NZ$700,000 worth of assistance towards emergency relief and reconstruction on the cyclone-ravaged islands of Vava’u and Niuatoputapu in Tonga said New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff.

New Zealand will remove sanctions against Fiji immediately following a decision by the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) to lift Fiji’s suspension from the Councils of the Commonwealth, Foreign Minister Phil Goff said.

Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff has welcomed the action taken by the Commonwealth to place Zimbabwe on the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) agenda.

Justice Minister Phil Goff today released the results of a survey commissioned by the Ministry of Justice to ascertain public attitudes towards the physical discipline of children.

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Figures released by the Ministry of Justice make a mockery of claims by the Opposition that career criminals will get their records sealed under the Government’s Clean Slate bill, Justice Minister Phil Goff said.

Joint statement by Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer and New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Phil Goff following their Queenstown Meeting Dec 15/16

Foreign Minister Phil Goff said he was appalled by the terrorist attack on the House of Parliament in New Delhi and sent New Zealand’s sympathies and condolences to the people of India.

Justice Minister Phil Goff says National leader Bill English’s vague promise of tougher sentencing laws for murder are a cynical effort to exploit the distress the whole country is feeling about the appalling run of murders over the past 8 days.

Justice Minister Phil Goff has introduced to Parliament a bill designed to allow people with minor convictions who have not reoffended to put their past behind them.