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Good evening, and welcome to everyone who has gathered here tonight to launch New Zealand's inaugural Sexual Harassment Prevention Week.

Good afternoon, and thank you for the invitation to take part in your annual conference.

Good afternoon, and thank you for the invitation to take part in your annual conference.

Women’s Affairs Minister Laila Harré today agreed to share strategies and information with her Australian counterparts to help prevent domestic violence against women and children.

Good morning.

It gives me great pleasure to welcome to New Zealand guests from the Commonwealth and South Pacific countries that are committed to improving the status of women.

Thank-your for inviting me here to speak to you today on one of my top priorities as Minister of Women's Affairs – the introduction of paid parental leave.

The Ministry of Women's Affairs will receive a $400,000 increase in operational funding in this year's budget, Women's Affairs Minister Laila Harré announced today.

Women's Affairs Minister Laila Harré says briefing papers released today show Muriel Newman's Shared Parenting Bill is unlikely to achieve its aim of improving the welfare of New Zealand children.

Women's Affairs Minister Laila Harré is hosting the first in a series of regional forums profiling Maori women ready to participate in board membership roles.

Women's Affairs Minister Laila Harré is encouraging New Zealanders to get signing in support of an international campaign to eliminate violence and poverty from women's lives.

Firstly I would like to congratulate all of you who have come this far. Succeeding in the business world at any time is difficult, but succeeding as a woman is even more of a challenge.

Women's Affairs Minister Laila Harré is backing Safekids' call for a ban on the sale of baby walkers in New Zealand.

"The child injury rate associated with baby walkers is horrendous and entirely preventable," Ms Harré says.