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The New Zealand Insurance Council's claim that there has been a more than 40 percent saving in workplace fatalities since the privatisation of workers' compensation was today challenged by Accident Insurance Minister Michael Cullen.

The report to the Insurance Council attacking the re-nationalisation of workplace injury compensation is a hodge-podge of inaccurate assumptions" Accident Insurance Minister Michael Cullen said today.

Dunedin North MP Pete Hodgson said today he was delighted the Government was reducing dental tuition fees.

"This has been an ugly anomaly in tertiary education for long enough," Mr Hodgson said.

"The Government has honoured a key election pledge today with the introduction
of legislation to dismantle the privatisation of workplace insurance,"

The Minister of Justice, Phil Goff, says he will recommend to Cabinet that there
be a review of the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act.

Alliance leader and Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton is attributing the rapid pace of action by the new government to the co-operative approach the Alliance and Labour are taking to the new coalition.

A planned strategy is needed to stop the exodus of young New Zealand doctors to Australia, Health Minister Annette King said today.

Cabinet Minister Sandra Lee, in one of her first acts as Conservation Minister, today declared New Zealand’s only native dolphin a threatened species under the provisions of the Marine Mammals Protection Act.