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The Minister of Energy, Hon Doug Kidd, today gave public notification of the revised Draft Minerals Programme for Coal and the revised Draft Minerals Programme for Minerals (other than coal and pet

Discussions will continue with kindergarten associations to find a way of resolving the current dispute over pay for kindergarten teachers, Associate Minister of Education Bill English said today.

"Tens of thousands of National Radio listeners will be appalled to learn that Winston Peters is considering introducing advertisements into the last remaining medium free of advertisements," the Ho

Foreign Minister Don McKinnon has said he would not advise New Zealanders to travel to Iraq at the present given the situation in the north.

A programme to increase the number of trained early childhood staff was announced today by the Associate Minister of Education, Bill English.

"A pathetic effort by a clapped-out school master, NZ First's agriculture spokesperson Jack Elder," was how Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith described NZ First's rural policy announced today.

New policies for the control of bovine Tb in cattle and deer herds will be introduced on 1 November, Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith announced today.

The Minister of Defence, the Hon Paul East, today announced that Rear Admiral K F (Fred) Wilson, CBE, LVO, the incumbent Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, will be appointed Chief of Naval Staff (CNS)

"Plans by Labour to stop public hospitals with spare capacity taking private fee paying patients will threaten the viability of some smaller hospitals and will mean those people in towns without pr

Annette King's never ending attack on Social Welfare's use of contractors and consultants, displays either a naïve understanding of modern business acumen,or reflects a hidden agenda to reinflate

Minister of Defence, Paul East, said today that he had received a report from the New Zealand Army into the circumstances surrounding the shooting of 13 Kaimanawa wild horses at Waiouru.

Minister of Defence Paul East says he is disappointed that Labour's associate defence spokesperson does not have more faith in the calibre of New Zealand's defence forces.

The Minister of Police, Hon John Luxton today welcomed the release by Police of the crime and road safety statistics for the June year 1996, saying that they showed very good trends in many key pol

The Mayor of New Plymouth District Council Claire Stewart, my colleagues, Roger Maxwell, Koro Wetere, Harry Duynhoven, Deputy Mayor and elected Council and Community Board representatives, Council

Alliance leader Jim Anderton's comments to Kerikeri orchardists yesterday regarding the Government's commitment to strengthening border controls were misinformed, Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smit

Over the last ten days there have been a number of significant events that will, I believe, have a significant impact on New Zealand Science and in particular, on the membership of your Society.

I am delighted to be here this morning to address the 1996 conference of the Psychologists Registration Boards' of the Australian States and the New Zealand Psychologists Board.

The Minister of Police, the Hon John Luxton said today that he was encouraged by the positive action Police have been taking to deal more effectively with youth offenders in our communities.

It is with great pleasure I welcome you all here this evening. Thank you all for joining us to celebrate the Ministry of Consumer Affair's tenth anniversary.

About the time I was planning my first campaign for parliament, in January 1984, Auckland's Metro magazine published a feature called the "Hot 100".

The Government today injected a further $14 million over two financial years into its campaign to provide more teachers in schools in 1997 and 1998.

Thank you all for coming this morning to our third annual "From Welfare to Well-being" business breakfast.

More than 1,800 people on waiting lists will be offered procedures as a result of the latest allocation from the Government's Waiting Times Fund aimed at reducing New Zealand's public hospital waiting lists," announced the Minister of Health Jenny Shipley today.

The Waiting Times Fund Advisory Group considered seven more applications at their third meeting last week.

Foreign Minister Don McKinnon has been aware of an action pending involving Mr Nattrass for about three or four years.