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The New Zealand kiwifruit industry is free to implement its restructuring plan.
- Jim Sutton
- Agriculture
Housing Minister Mark Gosche said today that National MP Wyatt Creech’s suggestion that the new government had promised to fully introduce income related state house rents by July this year was wrong.
- Mark Gosche
- Housing
Judith Tizard, Auckland Central MP and Minister assisting the Prime Minister on Auckland Issues, said today that she had reconsidered her decision to launch their "Water Conservation Advisory Service".
- Judith Tizard
- Auckland Issues
Speech Notes
Hon Mark Burton
Minister of Tourism
Destination Lake Taupo Industry Forum
Tuesday, 18 January 2000
- Mark Burton
- Tourism
Unprecedented public sector departmental co-operation is aiming to deal with the poor socio-economic status of Pacific people, according to a briefing paper released by the Minister of Pacific Island Affairs today.
- Mark Gosche
- Pacific Island Affairs
State Services Minister Trevor Mallard said today he regretted that Victoria University is caught up in a golden handshake scandal with former Vice Chancellor Michael Irving and wants the exact amount made public.
- Trevor Mallard
- State Services
By restoring decency and affordability to housing policy the coalition government would help to give a better deal to people with mental illness, Housing Minister Mark Gosche said today.
- Mark Gosche
- Housing
Social Services Minister Steve Maharey said today that the former National Government had suppressed knowledge of an out-of-court settlement involving a former senior WINZ manager which was reached before the election.
- Steve Maharey
- Social Development and Employment
Post-election briefing papers from the Ministry of Defence and the New Zealand Defence Force show that some crucial issues need to be addressed, the Minister of Defence Mark Burton said.
- Mark Burton
- Defence
Education Minister Trevor Mallard has dissolved the Board of Trustees of Kimi Ora Community School in Hastings and has asked for a commissioner to be appointed.
- Trevor Mallard
- Education
Commerce Minister and Rimutaka MP Paul Swain will need several weeks to fully recover from a recent illness, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.
- Helen Clark
- Prime Minister
Prime Minister Helen Clark said this evening that Japan’s continued whaling in the Southern Ocean could well have tragic consequences not only for the whales it was targeting but also for Greenpeace activists who are challenging Japan’s whaling programme.
- Helen Clark
- Prime Minister
Housing Minister Mark Gosche said today that the Coalition government was determined to make decency and affordability the hallmarks of its housing policy.
Mr Gosche today released departmental briefing papers from Housing New Zealand.
- Mark Gosche
- Housing
On the eve of his departure to East Timor, Foreign Minister Phil Goff has today released the 'Post Election Briefing from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade'.
- Phil Goff
- Foreign Affairs and Trade
"As disarmament talks stall internationally, New Zealand's role in creating a world free of nuclear weapons is once again vital," says new Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control, the Hon. Matt Robson.
- Matt Robson
- Disarmament and Arms Control
Health Minister Annette King says the results of a study into meningococcal disease clearly demonstrate the link between the disease and poor housing and overcrowded living conditions.
- Annette King
- Health
Health Minister Annette King today confirmed some of the Gisborne Cervical Screening Inquiry's hearings will be held in Gisborne.
- Annette King
- Health
An expected net migration loss of 6300 this year exposes again the failure of the former government’s economic policies, Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel said today.
- Lianne Dalziel
- Immigration
Motorists are still flouting basic rules of road safety and in doing so are keeping New Zealand’s road toll unacceptably high, Transport Minister Mark Gosche said today.
- Mark Gosche
- Transport
At midnight we farewelled the twentieth century and the second millennium. At dawn we saw the first light of the twenty-first century and the third millennium.
- Helen Clark
- Prime Minister
The Government will introduce a range of measures this year to minimise tax avoidance and to buttress the new 39 cent tax rate on incomes above $60,000, Finance and Revenue Minister Michael Cullen said today.
- Michael Cullen
- Revenue