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Access to the Special Benefit will be improved and more hours of subsidised childcare available following the Budget next month, Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey announced today.

The first phase of changes to the way the Department of Work and Income deals with those receiving benefits was outlined today by Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey.

Maori art will receive a financial boost as part of the Government's cultural recovery package announced last week, said the Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Judith Tizard.

Prime Minister Helen Clark and Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton confirmed that it was not government policy to have conjugal visits in prisons.

Prime Minister Helen Clark and Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton confirmed that it was not government policy to have conjugal visits in prisons.

Minister of Corrections clarified today that conjugal visits in prisons is not formal government policy. It is however worth looking at any programme that claims to reduce re-offending, he said.

Prime Minister Helen Clark said tonight that the proposal which had come from Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs for resolving the crisis in Fiji appeared to be unconstitutional.

The United States Congress vote to approve permanent normal trade relations with China was excellent news, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today.

He said the decisive vote was good for peace and stability.

I've been told that you are marking primary product week and I hope that is going well.

The time has come for action to address skills shortages in the economy, the Associate Education (Tertiary Education) Minister Steve Maharey told a forestry industry training audience in Rotorua this evening.

Speech to the Forest Industries Training Inaugural Celebration of Training Champions Awards

Sheraton Hotel, Rotorua. 25 May 2000.

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Former Waitakere City Deputy Mayor Dorothy Wilson is to chair a new working group being established to develop the framework for an agreement between the Government and the Community and Voluntary sector, Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector

The Minister for the Environment, Marian Hobbs, will represent New Zealand at the first Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Malmo, Sweden next week.

Thank-you for inviting me to deliver to you the second “State of the Nation’s Environment” address.

Ladies and gentlemen. I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak to you today.

New Zealand’s next High Commissioner in Ottawa will be career diplomat Wade Armstrong, Foreign Minister Phil Goff announced today.

The Government is working to secure a place for older New Zealanders in the mainstream of our society Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey said today.

The law change needed to restore income related rents for state house tenants will be introduced into Parliament tomorrow the Minister of Housing Mark Gosche said today.

New Zealand would sign the Cartagena Protocol on biosafety when it opened for signature in Nairobi tonight (NZ time), Foreign Minister Phil Goff said today.

New Zealand would sign the Cartagena Protocol on biosafety when it opened for signature in Nairobi tonight (NZ time), Foreign Minister Phil Goff said today.

The Government will not support an Act bill to which purports to cover disclosure of financial settlements, State Services Minister Trevor Mallard said.

Mr Saeidi Kia, Iranian Minister of Construction Jihad, is visiting New Zealand this week for high level trade and economic consultations, Hon Jim Sutton, Minister for Trade Negotiations said today.

Opening address to the Retirement Villages Association Conference.

Sky City Conference Centre.

Conservation and Associate Maori Affairs Minister Hon Sandra Lee has urged the inaugural meeting of the Hauraki Gulf Forum in Auckland today to come to a quick consensus on priorities.