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Prime Minister John Key will leave for Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday for the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.

  • John Key
  • Prime Minister

The Government has secured the support of the Māori Party to enable New Zealand to implement an affordable and workable emissions trading scheme next year, Minister for Climate Change Issues Nick

  • Nick Smith
  • Climate Change Issues

Housing Minister Phil Heatley has announced that from today first home buyers in higher priced areas of New Zealand will be able to borrow more under the government's Welcome Home Loan scheme, as l

  • Phil Heatley
  • Housing

Nominations are now open for three of the inaugural Prime Minister's Science Prizes.

  • Wayne Mapp
  • Science and Innovation

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  • Nathan Guy
  • Internal Affairs

Senior Citizens' Minister John Carter is taking the "It's Not OK" message on the road, travelling to Wairoa today to raise awareness of elder abuse and neglect.

  • John Carter
  • Senior Citizens

Rau rangatira maa,

tenei te mihi ki a koutou i runga i te kaupapa o te ra.

Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.

  • John Carter
  • Senior Citizens

From tomorrow the public will see how their DHBs are performing.

  • Tony Ryall
  • Health

Conservation Minister Tim Groser is to honour botanist Dr Philip Simpson by presenting him with New Zealand's premier plant conservation award, the Loder Cup, at a ceremony in Nelson tonight.<

  • Tim Groser
  • Conservation

Clinicians who responded to a call for volunteers to go to Samoa to help the tsunami response were honoured at a dinner attended by Pacific Island Affairs Minister Georgina te Heuheu in Auckland to

  • Georgina te Heuheu
  • Pacific Island Affairs

Trade Minister Tim Groser today welcomed news that the European Union (EU) has removed all remaining export subsidies for dairy products.

  • Tim Groser
  • Trade

Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Christopher Finlayson spoke today at the announcement of a major original exhibition by Weta Workshop which will tour China later this year.

  • Christopher Finlayson
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage

The government is making a key change to improve the delivery of its Warm Up New Zealand Heat Smart home insulation scheme.

  • Gerry Brownlee
  • Energy and Resources

Tertiary Education Minister Anne Tolley has welcomed the changes to the Education (Polytechnics) Amendment Bill made through the Select Committee process.

  • Anne Tolley
  • Tertiary Education

The investigation into Far North District Council's performance in processing applications for resource consents will start on Monday 23 November, Environment Minister Dr Nick Smith announced today

  • Nick Smith
  • Environment

Twenty five groups supporting positive parenting are to receive more than $810,000, says Social Development and Employment Minister Paula Bennett.

  • Paula Bennett
  • Social Development and Employment

Health Minister Tony Ryall has announced the make up of the Shared Services Establishment Board, which will help reduce the cost of DHB back office functions with estimated savings of up to $700 mi

  • Tony Ryall
  • Health

Greetings

E nga mana, e nga reo, e te iwi o te motu, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa

 

Introduction

    • Paula Bennett
    • Social Development and Employment

    Good morning, and thank you for the invitation to join you today.  It is good to be here on the North Shore to discuss the Government's vision for the future of the Auckland region.

    • Rodney Hide
    • Local Government

    Address to the NZIIA's seminar marking APEC's 20th anniversary

    Victoria University Law School, Wellington

    5.45pm, 19 November 2009 

     

    • Murray McCully
    • Foreign Affairs

    Defence Minister Wayne Mapp is on his way to Canada for a formal bilateral Defence visit and a Research, Science and Technology visit.

    • Wayne Mapp
    • Defence
    • Science and Innovation

    Communications and Information Technology Minister Steven Joyce has approved a variation to Telecom's operational separation undertakings, which came into force in March 2008.

    • Steven Joyce
    • Communications and Information Technology

    Defence Minister Wayne Mapp and Associate Defence Minister Heather Roy today extended the Government's deepest sympathies to the wife and family of Air Force Flight Sergeant Andrew Forster, killed

    • Wayne Mapp
    • Heather Roy
    • Defence

    A tax bill introduced to Parliament today by Revenue Minister Peter Dunne opens the way for New Zealanders returning home from Australia to bring their retirement savings with them.

    • Peter Dunne
    • Revenue