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

The blow-out in the current account recorded today shows the total failure of the National party’s economic management, Alliance leader and deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton said today.

New Zealand will only achieve higher living standards and sustained economic growth through a far-sighted economic development programme, Economic Development Minister Jim Anderton said today following the release of Treasury briefing papers.

The blow-out in the current account recorded today shows the total failure of the National party’s economic management, Alliance leader and deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton said today.

The Controller and Auditor-General’s report on Information Requirements for the Sustainable Management of Fisheries confirms that fisheries research has slipped into a parlous state after years of National government underfunding and neglect, says Fishe

Health Minister Annette King has begun consultation with the Mental Health Commission to finalise a timetable for providing the necessary mental health services for New Zealand.

The Government today took the first step in its promised streamlining of health administration by announcing the chairman of an interim board to oversee the process of bringing the Health Funding Authority Health into the Ministry of Health.

Health Minister Annette King said today she was disturbed at some aspects of Health Waikato Ltd’s procedures in deciding to purchase and implement a new information technology system.

Today’s announcements on the minimum wage, training incentive allowance, student loans and the F-16 review show that the Labour-Alliance government is determined to advance rapidly with the programme of positive change New Zealanders mandated on 27 November.

The 2GHz auction scheduled for January 31 is to be postponed to allow competition concerns with the auction to be addressed, the Minister of Communications Paul Swain announced today.

The $22 a week increase in the minimum wage announced today is being welcomed by the Alliance.

Work is to begin immediately to review the youth minimum wage, Youth Affairs Minister and Associate Minister of Labour Laila Harré announced today.

The adult minimum wage was today increased from $7 an hour to $7.55.

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.

Dannevirke’s Te Kura Kaupapa o Tamaki Nui a Rua will be able to accept secondary students from next year, Associate Education Minister Parekura Horomia said today.