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Tena koutou katoa. Greetings to you all. Welcome to Palmerston North.

I want to thank the senior management team and staff throughout the country for the way you have worked with the new Labour/Alliance government.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

Banks Peninsula District and Christchurch City Councils will not be united into one district, following separate polls of the electors in each area last Saturday. To proceed, over 50% of the votes cast in each poll had to be in favour of the union.

  • Sandra Lee
  • Local Government

The Government announced today that it would not proceed with the arrangements to lease and purchase 28 F16 fighter aircraft entered into by the previous government.

  • Helen Clark
  • Prime Minister

Cabinet has received the Hon Derek Quigley’s independent report on the F-16 lease agreement. We are grateful to Mr Quigley for his very thorough report which works its way through the question of the F-16 arrangement and sets it in the broader context of the unsustainability of the Defence Force's capital expenditure plans.

  • Helen Clark
  • Prime Minister

Thank you for the opportunity to meet with you today.

I bring apologies from the Minister of Education, the Hon. Trevor Mallard, who wasn¡¦t able to attend, but I will report back to him any issues that you raise with me today.

  • Lianne Dalziel
  • Education

Minister for Trade Negotiations Jim Sutton is to visit Australia on March 22-24
before travelling on to China and Korea to progress trade issues.
Mr Sutton will be the first minister from the new Government to visit China and

  • Jim Sutton
  • Trade Negotiations

Students studying Chinese as a second language will be able to sit School Certificate in the subject for the first time this year.

  • Trevor Mallard
  • Education

Foreign Minister, Hon Phil Goff, today congratulated the successful candidate in Taiwan's Presidential election, Chen Shui-bian, and urged him to build on the momentum of his election victory to seek renewed dialogue with Beijing.

  • Phil Goff
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

TUAROPAKI TRUST
MOKAI GEOTHERMAL PLANT
OPENING CEREMONY
1PM 18 MARCH 2000
SPEECH BY TAUPO MP MARK BURTON

(MAORI GREETING)

  • Mark Burton
  • Tourism

The Attorney-General, Hon Margaret Wilson, announced today the appointment of Dr Susan Glazebrook as a Judge of the High Court.

  • Margaret Wilson
  • Attorney-General

Kia Ora Koutou, Talofa Lava and Greetings to you all.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today.

Government policy

  • Mark Gosche
  • Transport

The Minister of Pacific Island Affairs Mark Gosche commended members of New Zealand's Tongan Community today when he launched the world's first Tongan Ethics Conference.

  • Mark Gosche
  • Pacific Island Affairs

Kia Orana, Ni Sa Bula, Taloha ni, Fakalofa Lahi Atu, Halo Olaketa, Ia Orana.
Kia Ora, Talofa Lava, Greetings – Malo e lelei.

I would like to acknowledge our tangata whenua, Kia Ora Koutou.

  • Mark Gosche
  • Pacific Island Affairs

Alliance leader and Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton paid tribute today to Alliance MP Phillida Bunkle for promoting the GE issue in Parliament.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Deputy Prime Minister

Affairs Mark Burton has released the first two reports of the New Zealand Gaming Survey.

Mr Burton released the reports when giving the opening address at the Gambling Impact Seminar being held in Taupo today.

  • Mark Burton
  • Internal Affairs

I would like to thank the Gambling Studies Institute and the Compulsive Gambling Society for the invitation to provide the keynote address to this forum. It is of course a particular pleasure for me because Taupo is my electorate.

  • Mark Burton
  • Internal Affairs

Marine oil spill specialists and conservation experts have been mobilised and are responding to the recent sinking of the fishing vessel Sea Fresh One on the eastern side of the Chatham Islands the Ministers of Transport and Conservation confirmed today

  • Mark Gosche
  • Transport

Marine oil spill specialists and conservation experts have been mobilised and
are responding to the recent sinking of the fishing vessel Sea Fresh One on the

  • Sandra Lee
  • Conservation

Encouraging more private sector research, increasing public funding for basic research and improving the direction of strategic research are the Government's priorities in science and technology, Minister of Research, Science and Technology Pete Hodgson

  • Pete Hodgson
  • Research, Science and Technology

It is a pleasure to have been invited “back home” to give my first extended speech in the Research, Science and Technology portfolio.

  • Pete Hodgson
  • Research, Science and Technology

State Services Minister Trevor Mallard said that 108 public submissions and 56 staff submissions to the inquiry into management practices at Work and Income New Zealand had been received by today's 5pm deadline.

  • Trevor Mallard
  • State Services

CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY FORUM ON FILM AND TELEVISION Wellington March 16

  • Marian Hobbs
  • Broadcasting

I wish to first thank the AA Driver Education Foundation for organising this 3rd Annual Driver Education and Awareness Conference and for inviting me to present the opening address.

  • Mark Gosche
  • Transport

The Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary Education), Steve Maharey, said he was pleased with the large number of public submissions received on the Government's plans refocus the tertiary education sector.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Education