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Work is to begin immediately to review the youth minimum wage, Youth Affairs Minister and Associate Minister of Labour Laila Harré announced today.

The adult minimum wage was today increased from $7 an hour to $7.55.

Alliance leader and Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton is attributing the rapid pace of action by the new government to the co-operative approach the Alliance and Labour are taking to the new coalition.

A planned strategy is needed to stop the exodus of young New Zealand doctors to Australia, Health Minister Annette King said today.

Cabinet Minister Sandra Lee, in one of her first acts as Conservation Minister, today declared New Zealand’s only native dolphin a threatened species under the provisions of the Marine Mammals Protection Act.

Dannevirke’s Te Kura Kaupapa o Tamaki Nui a Rua will be able to accept secondary students from next year, Associate Education Minister Parekura Horomia said today.

Keynote Speech to the NZ Labour Party Annual Conference 2000, Wellington Town Hall

Closing the Gaps: social services and employment

Hon Steve Maharey

Minister of Social Services and Employment