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Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa– warm greetings to all the delegates of the International Transport Forum.

Thank you Ngāti Rānana for providing such a vibrant and unique start to the first day of the Summit. The powhiri that you have just experienced is a powerful ceremony from Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, that both welcomes and brings people together.

It sets the tone for what is sure to be an interesting and thought-provoking three days.

Tena koutou katoa, good morning, and thank you for the invitation to speak today at the opening of the Research Ethics conference in New Zealand, Ethics in Practice, held here at Otago University.

(speech delivered to 2015 Nikkei Forum, Tokyo, Japan, 21 May 2015)

Minasan, Konnichiwa.

Tēnā koutou, Tēnā koutou, Tēnā koutou katoa.

I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak at this International Conference on the Future of Asia.

New Zealand considers itself very much an active country of this region.

New Zealand governments took a conscious decision, starting in the 1960s, to diversify our relationships away from traditional partners in Europe. 

Hi everyone. It’s great to see you all again this afternoon. Some of you are new to this lock-up; others have been here before. Regardless, I welcome you all and thank you for your ongoing commitment to education and to the future for all our children and young people. 

I’d also like to welcome the Under-Secretary for Education David Seymour who is here with us today. Like me, and all of you, Mr Seymour believes passionately in the ability of education to transform the lives of young people and I’m delighted he’s been able to join us.

Mr Speaker,

I move that the Appropriation (2015/16 Estimates) Bill be now read a second time.

It’s a privilege to present the National-led Government’s seventh Budget.

New Zealand has come through significant challenges and is now a more confident and resilient country than it was seven years ago.

Successive Budgets have sought to put New Zealand on a track to surplus and debt reduction, and as a result the Government’s books are in good shape.

Good morning, thank you for the invitation to speak today.

I would like to acknowledge the excellent speeches yesterday given by Honourable Bill English, and Rebecca Kitteridge, as well as guests joining us today: Liz Macpherson, John Edwards, conference guests, and attending media.

I want to start this morning by looking at how far we have come over the last 20 years or so managing identity and privacy, where we are headed and the Government’s focus on digital delivery.

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

It is a pleasure to speak at the conference dinner this evening.

This is the first time I have had the opportunity to talk with you all as a group since the election and since again taking responsibility for the forestry portfolio.

For almost two and a half years now I have visited our regions and spoken to a wide range of people in the forestry industry to help me gain a better understanding of how the forestry and wood sector works, and where the potential opportunities lie.

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

Thank you for inviting me back to open your conference this year.  I am pleased to be here with New Zealand’s most influential fundraisers and to speak to you as Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector.

speech to Business New Zealand – not delivered word for word

Good evening.

I would like to acknowledge Phil O’Reilly from Business New Zealand and his team and Scott Pickering CEO of ACC and all of you here tonight.

Last year, the ACC scheme turned 40. It has become a critical part of New Zealand’s economic and social fabric.

We can be proud of our no-fault , 24/7 coverage for all New Zealand residents and visitors, covering motor vehicle, non-work and workplace injuries.

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

Good morning everyone, and thank you for joining us here today.

Before I get started I would like to thank Jamie Falloon for hosting us on his property.

I also want to extend a welcome to your local MP Alastair Scott and thank the hard working staff at the Ministry for Primary Industries who have put this event in place.

One of the big challenges our Government has had to deal with has been the devastating Christchurch earthquakes. The Prime Minister has made the recovery and rebuild of Christchurch one of the four key priorities for our Government and all credit to the work of Gerry Brownlee and my Canterbury colleagues on the job they are doing to achieve this.

Tena koutou katoa
Rau Rangatira ma.
Tuatahi, Ko te wehi ki te Atua,
me whakakororia tona ingoa I nga wa katoa.

Tuarua, mihi ki a ratou kua wehe atu ki te po.
Haere atu ra.
Haere atu ra.
Haere atu ra. 
Ratou ki a ratou, tatou ki a tatou.

Tuatoru, mihi nunui atu ki te Kahui Ariki. 
Te Kingi nui, Tūheitia me tona whānau I tenei wa.
Paimarire.

Ki nga Ahi Kaaroa o tenei wahi, 
Aakitai Waiohua,
me Ngati Te Ata hoki,
ka nui te mihi ki a koutou katoa.

Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. Greetings, greetings, greetings to all and every one of you. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to New Zealand and thank you for making the lengthy journey to be here. 

New Zealand’s Ministry of Health (Medsafe) and The Therapeutics Goods Administration of Australia are proud to be joint hosts for this meeting. New Zealand and Australia have a long and proud history of mutual co-operation.

Good afternoon everyone. It’s a pleasure to be with you again this year.

Thank you to the Wellington Employers’ Chamber of Commerce for once again organising this pre-Budget lunch.

I also want to acknowledge the Chamber’s work in promoting the Wellington business community and in advocating policy to enable businesses in the capital to invest, employ and grow.

The Budget on 21st May will set out in detail the Treasury’s revised economic and fiscal forecasts as well as the Government’s decisions around new spending.

Good morning and thank you for the invitation for me to speak to you today.

I want to thank the Radio Frequency Users Association of New Zealand for organising this event and inviting me to speak again.

Let me first acknowledge your association chairman, Bruce Harding, and all his hard work and enthusiasm in the sector.

Since 1990, the association have been keen advocates and promoters of the rights of those requiring access to radio spectrum, and it’s great to see your organisation is still in good heart after 25 years.

On behalf of the Ngārimu VC and 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund Board, I wish to welcome you all here this evening. 

Among our guests are fellow board members, ministers of the Crown, Royal New Zealand Returned Services Association National Vice President Bob Hill, Chief of the Air Force, Air Vice-Marshal Mike Yardley, members of the Iwi Chairs Forum, ministry and government agency representatives, members of the Alumni Establishment Committee, parents, whānau and friends.

It’s a pleasure to be with you here in Dubai this morning to open this business seminar.

And I’d like to thank the Dubai Chamber of Commerce for hosting this event today.

As you may be aware, I arrived in Dubai last night after attending significant war commemorations in Turkey.

Today marks the beginning of my visit to several Gulf States, and I’d like to thank you for the warm welcome I’ve received.

There are places on this peninsula whose names will never be forgotten.

Each country remembers where their soldiers fought, and where they fell.

Places where extraordinary bravery was shown, in unspeakable conditions.

For New Zealanders, nowhere in Gallipoli is more special than here on Chunuk Bair.

It was not the scene of a great triumph.

But it was the closest the Allied forces came to making a breakthrough in the whole Gallipoli campaign.

And it was led by a few hundred Kiwis, 10,000 miles from home.

In around eight hours from now, on the beach at Anzac Cove in Turkey, our Prime Minister, the Prime Minister of Australia and thousands of citizens of both countries, will gather to mark the landing of New Zealand and Australian forces that took place exactly one hundred years ago.

The battle that followed provides one of the key foundations of our own sense of nationhood, and marks the beginning of the Anzac legend - the forging of a unique bond between the peoples of New Zealand and Australia.

On this beach, on this day, at this hour, exactly 100 years ago, the first Anzac troops came ashore.

Instead of the open spaces that had been described to them, they landed here with steep hills rising in front of this narrow beach.

And in those hills, Ottoman Turkish soldiers were already positioned and ready to defend this land.

We New Zealanders rarely think of ourselves as anyone’s enemy, or as aggressors.

One hundred years ago today, thousands of young New Zealand and Australian soldiers waited anxiously for the orders that would send them ashore in an attempt to secure the Gallipoli Peninsula.

On shore, Turkish soldiers from their 9th and 19th Divisions waited just as anxiously, prepared to lay down their lives to protect their homeland.

Two days later, 25 April - Anzac Day - thousands of soldiers on both sides were dead or wounded, on the first day of a campaign that would last eight harsh months.

Good morning and welcome to the World Geothermal Congress. It is a real pleasure to be here and I’m sure that, like me, you are all looking forward to a fascinating few days.

In recent years we’ve heard a lot about the idea of an 'energy trilemma'.  As the World Energy Council puts it, we need to balance the tensions between the need for energy reliability and security, society’s need for accessible and affordable energy, and the need for environmental sustainability.

It is a pleasure and it is also fitting to be here with my Australian counterpart today for the dedication of this magnificent memorial.

This park was opened only two days ago, though its origins date back to 1919 when the government agreed to build a National War Memorial here in Wellington.

It was to be visible from any part of the city, from ships entering the harbour, and from Parliament, so that future governments would remember the sacrifice that had been made in the First World War. 

Thank you all for being here to witness the official opening of this park as a place of commemoration and remembrance for the whole nation.

This opening comes as we are focussed on the 100th commemorations of the First World War.

That war had a deep and abiding impact on New Zealand and New Zealanders.  In our small nation, almost every family was affected by it.