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Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Helen Clark announced today that the remarkable Ned Kelly series of paintings by Australian artist Sidney Nolan will be exhibited by Wellington's City Gallery next year as part of the New Zealand Festival.

Prime Minister Helen Clark and Maori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia said today that the establishment of a Maori Television Service ushers in an exciting new era in broadcasting which will help to enrich New Zealand's society, culture and heritage.

Function of the Maori Television Service
The function of the Maori television service is to promote te reo Maori me nga tikanga Maori, through the provision of a high quality, cost effective Maori television service, in both Maori and English, which informs, educates and entertains, and in doing so, enriches New Zealand's society, culture and heritage.

Prime Minister Helen Clark tonight congratulated Megawati Sukarnoputri on her appointment as Indonesia's President

Prime Minister Helen Clark says Japan has the opportunity at next week's International Whaling Commission meeting to explain the relationship between Japan's development aid to small countries and the link which that appears to have to voting behaviour at the Commission.

Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that she was appalled by the reported admission of a senior Japanese fisheries official that Japan has been, in effect, bribing poorer nations to support Japan's campaign to overturn a global moratorium against whaling.

Thank you for the invitation to speak to you today.
It is now nineteen months since the Labour-Alliance Government came into office. Much has happened in that time. We came to office concerned about the path New Zealand was on and determined to change it.

Thank you for the invitation to speak at this opening session of your annual conference.

Thank you for the invitation to speak at this opening session of your annual conference.

Prime Minister Helen Clark today congratulated Beijing on being chosen to host the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Prime Minister Helen Clark and Whanganui MP Jill Pettis announced today that the Crown has contributed $50,000 to the Wanganui District Council's legal costs incurred in relation to Moutua Gardens/Pakaitore.

Prime Minister Helen Clark today welcomed the announcement of a new training opportunity in Japan for fishing industry trainees.

Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that the Queen will visit Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin during her visit in October this year.

Prime Minister Helen Clark today addressed the Public Health Association conference on the government's action to achieve equity in health.

Speech by Rt Hon Helen Clark, Prime Minister, at launch of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Advanced Software Centre

Thank you for the invitation to address the PHA Conference again. Over the last couple of days it has been good to see news media coverage of the conference, and to see attention drawn to inequities in health status among New Zealanders and how they might be addressed.

Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced that Sir Peter Blake has been appointed a special envoy of the United Nations Environment Programme.

It is a great pleasure today to welcome Dr Klaus Töpfer formally to New Zealand.

Dr Töpfer is the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, and an Under Secretary General of the United Nations.

It is refreshing to have Sir Tony Atkinson in New Zealand as a social policy commentator.

Prime Minister Helen Clark and Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Judith Tizard today expressed their sadness at the death of Sheilah Winn, and paid tribute to her longstanding patronage of the arts in New Zealand.

Thank you for the invitation to open your conference today.

As a former health minister, I maintain a great interest in health policy, and in how it relates to other social policy and to economic policy

Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that the President of Indonesia, His Excellency KH Abdurrahman Wahid, had advised the New Zealand Government that he plans to visit New Zealand on 27 and 28 June.

18 June 2001

Media Statement

Rt Hon Helen Clark
Prime Minister

Hon Steve Maharey
Minister of Social Services and Employment

Prime Minister Helen Clark and Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey today released a Government statement on the development of the social security system.