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Good afternoon.

Thank you Michael and the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, and Steve and Massey University, for inviting me back to this annual event.

It’s a pleasure to be with you again today. I make this the sixth time I’ve spoken at this forum since becoming Minister of Finance.

With the National-led Government now into its third term, I’d like to update you on our priorities for the next three years.

We have three busy years ahead of us. And there is much to do.

  • Bill English
  • Finance

Tēnā koutou katoa, welcome to collaborative team members who have come together, for the first time from across New Zealand, to create a national network aiming to  reduce opioid-related harm in our hospitals.

  • Peter Dunne
  • Health

Mr Speaker, today I am announcing to the House the Government’s decisions about our contribution to the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.

Last November I gave a national security speech which outlined the threat posed to New Zealand by ISIL.

This brutal group and its distressing methods deserve the strongest condemnation.

ISIL’s ability to motivate Islamist radicals make it a threat not only to stability in the Middle East, but regionally and locally too.

  • John Key
  • Prime Minister

Thank you for your warm welcome. 

It’s a pleasure to be here this morning.

Thank you to our Chair, Jon Mitchell, for your kind introduction.

I would like to acknowledge our recently appointed Director of Civil Defence & Emergency Management, Sarah Stuart-Black, who will speak after me, and our featured speakers:

  • Nikki Kaye
  • Civil Defence

UN Security Council Open Debate: Maintenance of International Peace and Security. Statement by Foreign Minister Murray McCully. Delivered Monday 23 February (New York)

Thank you Mr President.

New Zealand congratulates China for this initiative.

We agree that the 70th Anniversary is the right time for the Council to undertake a measure of serious self-examination, and to assess where we are performing well, and where we are not.

We agree that the Council needs to do much better.

That is clearly the view of UN Members.

  • Murray McCully
  • Foreign Affairs

Good afternoon.

This is my seventh opportunity to talk to this audience, which reflects both the stability of this Government and the opportunity provided by a clear election mandate to embed changes in public services.

I want to start by congratulating the public service.

While it maintains a necessary habit of self-criticism, the public service has achieved the targets this Government has set for it.

We have been able to live within small allowances for new funding.

  • Bill English
  • Finance

Tena koutou katoa, good morning, and thank you for the invitation to speak today at the opening of the 2015 public health summer school course on public health responses to climate change.

I would like to begin by welcoming all of you, including those of you who have elected to attend by internet-based video conference. And I would like to acknowledge the organisers and today’s speakers who have travelled from around New Zealand to be here.

Climate change, and its impacts, is widely recognised as one of the most pressing issues of our time. 

  • Peter Dunne
  • Health

Thank you Lex Henry for that introduction.  I’m delighted to be here talking to you as business leaders, but also as parents, and people invested in the future of our country.

Ours is a small nation with a far reach and big ambitions – and the full realisation of those ambitions relies on ensuring that we have a highly skilled workforce and well qualified New Zealanders.

  • Hekia Parata
  • Education

Rau rangatira ma e huihui nei,

Nau mai, haere mai ki Waitangi.

Tēnei aku mihi māhana mo te Kāwanatanga Nāhinara ki a koutou.

Kia ora huihui tātou katoa.

Ladies and Gentlemen.

Today we commemorate 175 years of the Treaty of Waitangi relationship. 

It’s a relationship we should all have pride in. And we should all have great confidence that it will continue to strengthen.

Like the first Maori who arrived here many hundreds of years ago, European settlers arrived by sea.

  • John Key
  • Prime Minister

E aku rangatira, tēnā koutou katoa. Ka nui te honore ki te mihi ki a koutou katoa.

[Translation: Distinguished members of the Committee, greetings to you all. It is a great honour to greet you all at this important event today].

Your Excellencies, the Governor-General of New Zealand, Lt Gen The Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae, and Lady Janine Mateparae,  Trust Chair, Rachael Selby and Trustees, Fellows and guests.

  • Jo Goodhew
  • Community and Voluntary Sector

Ladies and Gentlemen.

New Zealand is in good shape and getting better.

We are making great strides towards building a stronger, more prosperous country – a country where we can have a great lifestyle and earn a good income that compares well with the rest of the world.

That progress is due to the hard work and positive attitude of New Zealanders.

It’s also because of the stability, cohesion and confidence that’s come from six years of strong and stable government.

New Zealand is doing well compared to other countries.

  • John Key
  • Prime Minister

The lectern and backdrop for this, my 20th annual speech to Nelson Rotary is the 80,000 pages of council resource management plans and rules. If in a single pile it would stand ten metres tall and probably require a resource consent for breaching local height restrictions. This mountain of red tape well illustrates the need for an overhaul of the Resource Management Act.

  • Nick Smith
  • Environment
  • Building and Housing