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It is great to be here in the heart of South Auckland at Mangere Central School. It is also great to be here with our Prime Minister and Education Minister Hekia Parata who are both strong advocates of equality of opportunity in our education system. It is only through their belief in the importance of improving learning opportunities through technology that we are here today.

  • Nikki Kaye
  • Education

Thank you for organising this conference today on this very important topic, and for the chance to say a few words.

I had a bit of drama getting here this morning with cancelled flights. It would have been easy to give up and head back to Wellington, but I wanted to be here because biosecurity is my number one priority as Minister.

The New Zealand Biosecurity Institute, the National Pest Control Agencies and your members are a valuable part of the biosecurity system. Raising awareness, sharing knowledge and supporting best practice are all very important.

  • Nathan Guy
  • Primary Industries

I’d like to begin by thanking our hosts IPANZ and Deloitte for bringing together senior public servants, partners from across the public and private sectors, and many of you who took the time to help shape this new Act.

  • Jonathan Coleman
  • Defence

Today I want to talk to you about my priorities for the primary sector, of which horticulture is a major part. In particular I want to talk about the two goals that the Ministry for Primary Industries has – to grow and protect New Zealand’s economy.

As you all know, the primary sector is the powerhouse of our economy. It is worth around $30 billion a year to the New Zealand economy and makes up around 72 per cent of our exports.

  • Nathan Guy
  • Primary Industries

It’s great to be back here in Seoul.  This is my third visit to Korea in four-and-a-half years as Prime Minister.  This is because we value the importance of the Korea relationship for New Zealand and for Korea’s rapidly expanding role in the world.

On this occasion we have a large contingent of New Zealand veterans and their supporters here for the 60th anniversary of the armistice which took place over the weekend.  Over 6,000 New Zealand army and navy personnel took part in the Korean war, in which 45 New Zealanders lost their lives.

  • John Key
  • Prime Minister

I would like to begin by specially acknowledging the presence of our party of New Zealand Korean War veterans who have journeyed to Korea to pay their respects to their fallen comrades and mark the 60th anniversary of the end of fighting in the Korean War. Sixty years ago yesterday the guns fell silent across the Korean peninsula.

The armistice that ended hostilities in the devastating war that had raged across this country for more than three years had come into effect.

  • John Key
  • Prime Minister

Madam President, distinguished guests, honoured veterans, ladies and gentlemen

It is an honour to address you on behalf of the countries invited here today to commemorate, with our Korean partners, the 60th anniversary of the Armistice Agreement which ended hostilities in the Korean War.

We are here to remember the heroism and the sacrifices of Korean and allied troops from 21 nations large and small, including my country New Zealand, which answered the call of the Korean government and the United Nations.

  • John Key
  • Prime Minister

Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me to speak to you today.

It’s both a privilege and a pleasure to be here with you at my first Local Government New Zealand Conference. I’m here for a full day and a half so I can engage with as many of you as possible and discuss the issues facing Local Government.

When I first took up the Local Government portfolio, I was very clear that the relationship between myself as your Minister and local government needed to be strong if we were to take the country forward together.

  • Chris Tremain
  • Local Government

Thank you for inviting me to the Local Government New Zealand conference once again. It’s great to be here.

I’d like to acknowledge your President, Lawrence Yule, and your board members for their hard work. I enjoy a great working relationship with Lawrence and meet regularly with him and LGNZ chief executive Malcolm Alexander.

I often meet mayors and councillors when I am travelling around New Zealand, and it’s great to see so many familiar faces here today. I’d especially like to acknowledge Hamilton Mayor, Julie Hardaker.

  • John Key
  • Prime Minister

It’s a pleasure to be here at the West Coast Minerals Forum and to have the opportunity to speak to you all.

Since becoming Energy and Resources Minister in January, I have spent a lot of time talking about ‘opportunity’ – the opportunity that can be realised from developing our resource potential.

And New Zealand has never been a better place to explore.

We are recognised as one of the world’s most promising regions, but we remain relatively unexplored.

  • Simon Bridges
  • Energy and Resources

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

Good evening everyone.  Thank you for your kind words of welcome Brigid.  Thanks also to Women on Boards New Zealand for inviting me to launch the inaugural Women in Governance Awards this evening.  I particularly thank Lesley Whyte and Dr Rosanne Hawarden, co-founders of Women on Boards New Zealand, and NEXT magazine for hosting this wonderful event.

  • Jo Goodhew
  • Women’s Affairs

Good morning everyone and thanks to NZPork for inviting me to address you today.  I’d like to start by acknowledging Chairman Ian Carter, and other local and overseas industry representatives present here today.

  • Jo Goodhew
  • Primary Industries

I move that the New Zealand International Convention Centre Bill be now read a first time. I nominate the Commerce Committee to consider the Bill. At the appropriate time, I intend to move that the Bill be reported to the House by 14 November 2013.

Mr Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to introduce this Bill.

This Bill is first and foremost about investment, jobs and growth for New Zealand and their families.

  • Steven Joyce
  • Economic Development

Thank you to the Institute of Agricultural & Horticultural Science for putting together this conference on what is a very important topic, and for inviting me to say a few words.

Before I start I’d like to comment on the title of this conference - Have we gone soft at the border?

I was advised that it would be a ‘courageous’ move to speak at a conference with such a title. But given the importance to me of biosecurity, I saw this event as more of an opportunity than a challenge.

  • Nathan Guy
  • Primary Industries

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

My thanks to College President Tim Malloy for inviting me to join you today, to open what I know will be a successful and stimulating conference.

I would like to start by acknowledging Dr Mark Peterson, College Board Member and Chair of the Programme Committee, his fellow Board members, and your MC for today Dr Lincoln Nicholls.

  • Jo Goodhew
  • Health

Good afternoon. It’s a pleasure to be here with you today.

Since I last spoke to the Trans-Tasman Business Circle, New Zealand has made considerable progress in a world still facing many economic challenges.

It has not been easy. And there is still plenty to do.

Many households and businesses are still finding the environment quite challenging.

  • Bill English
  • Finance

Good morning. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the second day of the Valuing Nature conference.

Yesterday you heard about the economics of nature and valuing nature at a local level.  Today the focus is on natural capital in a national context and in business.

This is particularly pertinent to me in the environment portfolio, where I am leading work to take a good, hard look at the way we manage our natural resources.

  • Amy Adams
  • Environment

Good morning. It is a pleasure to be invited to speak here this morning.

I would like to begin by acknowledging InternetNZ for organising this event, and for their on-going work in ensuring that key issues affecting the development of our digital future continue to be prominently and actively debated.

Can I also pass on my congratulations to newly-appointed chief executive Jordan Carter.

  • Amy Adams
  • Communications and Information Technology

Good morning.

Pulling together good economic and environmental policy has been my passion of 25 years in politics and so I am delighted to be formally opening this Valuing Nature Conference.

I want to start by acknowledging our distinguished international guests.

Former chair of the IPCC on Climate Change and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Professor Sir Robert Watson.

Ambassador for the UN Environment Programme and author of “Towards a Green Economy”, Pavan Sukhdev.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

It is a pleasure to join you today at this conference.

I would like to acknowledge all of you for the contribution you are making to science and our economic development.

  • Nikki Kaye
  • Food Safety

Thank you for allowing me to make some opening comments to this seminar.

This is my first visit to China as Minister for Primary Industries, but my second visit as a Minister. I visited here in April 2012 as the Minister of Immigration and Associate Minister for Primary Industries.

  • Nathan Guy
  • Primary Industries

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

Good morning everyone and thank you for inviting me to speak to you today.

I would like to begin by acknowledging NZIF President Dr Andrew McEwan, the NZIF Council, and conference organiser John Schrider. I’d also like to acknowledge the students here today from the University of Canterbury’s School of Forestry and the Wairiki Institute of Technology, as well as my fellow speakers.

  • Jo Goodhew
  • Primary Industries

Good afternoon.

Thank you for being here today. I want to acknowledge and thank the Auckland Chamber of Commerce for putting on this event.

Today I want to talk about some of the issues facing Auckland.

Auckland is not just New Zealand’s biggest city.

It is not just the home of one-third of New Zealand’s population.

It is not just New Zealand’s largest commercial centre.

It is not just the primary gateway into New Zealand.

  • John Key
  • Prime Minister

I returned recently from representing New Zealand at the Summit of the ‘Pacific Alliance’ in Colombia. We are now an official observer of the Pacific Alliance – along with Australia, Canada (Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, was also present in Colombia) and a handful of other countries.

  • Tim Groser
  • Trade