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On 2 May 2007, a dramatic protest rally took place at Parliament as crowds gathered to fight the passage of legislation to remove section 59 from the Crimes Act.

  • Pita Sharples
  • Maori Affairs

 

Mr Chairman, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen.

  • Murray McCully
  • Foreign Affairs

Good morning and welcome to the Housing in an Ageing Society forum organised by the Centre for Housing Research. 

  • Phil Heatley
  • Housing

Convenor, Jim Perry, veterans and guests:

  • Wayne Mapp
  • Defence

Lieutenant Commander Bob Mohammed, Mess President, officers of HMNZS Ngapona:

  • Wayne Mapp
  • Defence

Good afternoon and thank you for the invitation to address your conference.

  • Phil Heatley
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Professor Joerg Kistler (leader of the Institute for Innovation in Biotechnology and also Director of the University of Auckland School of Biological Sciences), Professor Stuart McCutcheon, members

  • Wayne Mapp
  • Science and Innovation

Terry Mischefski (president of Plastics New Zealand), Michael Davies (Dean of the University of Auckland Engineering School), guests:

  • Wayne Mapp
  • Science and Innovation

I want to thank Susan Forde, your Chairperson; and Janet Webb; the Centre Manager; for the opportunity to join with you today, to share the opening of the new buildings for the Stewart Centre

  • Tariana Turia
  • Disability Issues

Thank you for the opportunity to open the Centre for Brain Research. Congratulations to Professor Richard Faull and Professor Alan Barber, who have led the development of the centre.

  • Wayne Mapp
  • Science and Innovation

Kia ora koutou

  • Phil Heatley
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Introduction

Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to open the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

  • Tony Ryall
  • Health

I am sorry I am unable to be with you all for this special Jigsaw Family Services Conference and Annual General meeting.

  • Tariana Turia
  • Community and Voluntary Sector

I want to talk to you about the future of NZ agriculture in ways that I suspect may at times be politically reassuring but may also challenge you in other ways. In fact I hope some of these ideas will indeed challenge you: we need some new thinking around agriculture but it cannot just be thinking at an intellectual plane. To bring it into reality, we will need buy in from our farmers to that new thinking.

The Role of Agriculture in NZ's Economy

  • Tim Groser
  • Trade

Thank you for the opportunity to join you here today to talk about one of my great passions - unleashing enterprise through regulatory reform.

  • Rodney Hide
  • Regulatory Reform

Hwan yong harmny da.  Welcome.

I'd like to acknowledge KCC Standing Commissioner Hyung Tae-Gun and Senator Stephen Conroy. 

  • Steven Joyce
  • Communications and Information Technology

Kia Ora and Good morning. [with sign language]

[with sign language] My name is Pansy and I am the Associate Minister for Disability Issues.

  • Pansy Wong
  • Disability Issues

Hon. Maurice Williamson

Minister for Land Information

 

 

  • Maurice Williamson
  • Land Information

Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,

  • Jonathan Coleman
  • Immigration

Over the course of my lifetime, we have shifted house more times than I like to remember. 

  • Tariana Turia
  • Disability Issues

Distinguished faith and community leaders,

Tena koutou katoa and good morning to you all. 

  • Pansy Wong
  • Ethnic Affairs
    • Pita Sharples
    • Maori Affairs

    Thank you for your kind words of introduction.

    • Tariana Turia
    • Community and Voluntary Sector

    When I arrived here tonight I had one of those moments of panic when you think you have come to the wrong hui.   And then I started thinking, maybe I need to be planning a More Maori Oppo

    • Tariana Turia
    • Social Development and Employment