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Address for the Second Reading

We started the year with doomsayers forecasting recession and the prospect of a lean Christmas. We end the year with signs we are growing again and preparing well for the future.

There will be no change to the rate of the export education levy, which is paid by providers involved in the international education industry, for 2007.

Tony Ryall and the National Party need to come clean on their opposition to lower doctors fees for New Zealanders.

The Certificated Deckhand Qualification is tailored to meet the needs of the maritime industry by providing suitably qualified staff for boats that are patronised by tourists.

A significant first step towards developing a medicines strategy is underway with the release of a public consultation document today.

Health Minister Pete Hodgson and Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne today released the public consultation document "Towards a New Zealand Medicines Strategy".

Communications Minister David Cunliffe has accepted the Commerce Commission’s recommendations that the period of regulation of 10 telecommunications services be extended for a further two year period.

Peter Harris, the deputy chair of the Electricity Commission, is to be an associate member of the Commerce Commission.

New Zealanders voicing genuinely held concerns about diet drinks and tooth decay should join the Labour-led government's call for the expansion of fluoridated water supplies.

The government is to extend the tax exemption for KiwiSaver employer contributions to other registered super schemes

Ministerial partnership with arts community supports emerging artists

Finance Minister Michael Cullen and Revenue Minister Peter Dunne announced today the extension to other registered superannuation schemes of the tax exemption for employer contributions to KiwiSaver.

"It is vital that New Zealand's arable farmers can have confidence in our biosecurity systems," says Jim Anderton, welcoming the appointment of David Oughton, former Secretary for Justice, who will lead the enquiry.

The corrections system failed Liam Ashley and his family, Corrections Minister Damien O'Connor said today.

A Crown Commissioner is to be appointed to run the New Plymouth-based Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT).

Full sugar fizzy and energy drinks will be removed from secondary schools by 2009

The income threshold at which new Zealand-based borrowers must begin repaying their student loans will rise from $17,160 to $17,784 on 1 April next year, Revenue Minister Peter Dunne announced today.

Address to Istanbul Business Forum

Address to Koc University, Istanbul.

Our older Pacific people are the foundation on which our communities are built.

The proposed energy strategy aims to for a sustainable and affordable energy system, minimising greenhouse gas emissions, and an enduring competitive advantage for NZ

National have finally admitted that Labour's employment law has had a major role in achieving the world's lowest
unemployment rate but workers are right to be skeptical about Key's motives.

We have a moral and environmental obligation to help address this serious global problem