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New legislation will significantly boost the effectiveness of DNA profiling in fighting crime.

Justice Minister Phil Goff will introduce an amendment to the Crimes Act which will prevent instances where people can literally get away with murder.

Ministry of Justice report highlights high rates of reoffending and reconviction or released prisoners.

Foreign Minister Phil Goff welcomes the appointment of Simon Murdoch as the new head of MFAT

Phil Goff lambasts Bill English for trying to score poltical points out of double-murder tragedy

The release of Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest should be followed by the release of all other political prisoners in Myanmar, Foreign Minister Phil Goff said today.

The Criminal Records Bill creates a clean slate scheme to allow minor criminal convictions which did not result in a prison sentence to be concealed after a 10-year period without further offending.

Sentencing Bill and Parole Bill third readings.

The third reading speech at the passage of the Governemnt's radical revamp of sentencing and parole

Foreign Minister Phil Goff praises progress in relationship between Nth & Sth Korea

Outline of new residential programme for serious young repeat offenders

The Government today released a wide-ranging strategy for dealing with youth crime.

The strategy is based on the report of a Ministerial Taskforce on youth offending, chaired by Chief District Court Judge, David Carruthers.

The Christchurch Youth Drug Court is the first initiative arising out of the Government’s Task Force on Youth Crime aimed at reducing youth offending, Justice Minister Phil Goff said today.

Foreign Minister Phil Goff has welcomed New Zealand’s election as President of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The Government has formally put in place a ban on travel to New Zealand by twenty key members of the Zimbabwe Government and administration in an announcement today by Foreign Minister Phil Goff.

New Zealand today formally expressed its deep concern about and opposition to the Israeli military action in the occupied territories.

Justice Minister Phil Goff has this week ordered cash and assets valued at over $1.5 million seized from drug traffickers to be paid to the Crown.

Foreign Minister Phil Goff said New Zealand had today deplored the escalating violence in the Middle East at an emergency open session of the United Nations Security Council.

New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff has condemned the perpetrators of violence on both sides of the Middle East conflict.

The Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill has taken another step towards becoming law, passing through its second reading in Parliament today.

I move that the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill be now read a second time.

Recent successes in the weapons disposal process bode well for a successful final vote on the Bougainville Peace Agreement Bill in Papua New Guinea next week, Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff said today.

Foreign Minister Phil Goff said New Zealand welcomed the decision to suspend Zimbabwe for one year from the Councils of the Commonwealth.

ACT Leader, Richard Prebble can’t seem to stop telling lies. His blatantly inaccurate use of statistics and misstatements of fact undermine his party’s credibility, Justice Minister Phil Goff said today.