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Eligibility for War Pensions is to be widened and will now include personnel who witnessed French nuclear tests at Mururoa.

Veterans' Affairs Minister Mark Burton today extended his condolences on behalf of the New Zealand veteran community to the family of Mr Alec Campbell, the last Anzac survivor of the Gallipoli campaign, who died in Tasmania last week aged 103 years.

The referral of a War Pensions Bill to a select committee is a significant step towards addressing a key veterans' issue

Medals have been presented in Wanganui and Palmerston North to New Zealand personnel who witnessed nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1970s.

National’s Veteran Affairs policy is effectively an endorsement of all that this government has done, following the abject failure of the previous National government to do anything for veterans.

Two further medallic grievances have been addressed, Veterans' Affairs Minister Mark Burton announced today.

Prime Minister Helen Clark and Veterans' Affairs Minister Mark Burton will today present medals to veterans for service in five separate operations between 1946 and 1994, which have not previously received New Zealand medallic recognition.

New Zealand personnel who witnessed nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1970s will be eligible for a new medal, the Prime Minister Helen Clark and Veterans' Affairs Minister Mark Burton announced today.

All war pensions and associated allowance payments available to assist veterans will increase from April 1st, as part of the annual cost of living adjustment, Minister of Veterans' Affairs Mark Burton said today.

Defence Minister and Minister of Veteran's Affairs Mark Burton today announced that approximately 800 additional New Zealand navy veterans now qualify for a medal recognising their service during the 1960s confrontation with Indonesia.