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The Minister of Defence, Hon Mark Burton today announced that the RNZAF Skyhawk and Aermacchi fleets have been sold to a private American company, Tactical Air Services, Inc. for around $155 million (US$110 million ) following the signing of a Heads of Agreement between the company and the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Special allowances paid to members of the armed forces in overseas trouble spots will be automatically exempt from income tax under legislation proposed by the government.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Prime Minister Helen Clark and Minister of Defence Mark Burton have announced today that they have approved the presentation of war medals, certificates and medallions to the families of the five soldiers who were executed during the First World War for mutiny and desertion and pardoned by Parliament in 2000.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that she will seek the Queen's approval for eligible New Zealanders who served in Malaya / Malaysia, to wear the Pingat Jasa Malaysia (PJM) medal.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Defence Minister Mark Burton this morning announced a pay rise for military personnel from this Friday, July 1.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Defence Minister Mark Burton today officially marked the "first cut" metal milestone for the four Royal New Zealand Navy Project Protector Inshore Patrol Vessels being built in Whangarei.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Mark Burton attends high-level Asia-Pacific defence conference

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Prime Minister Helen Clark and Defence Minister Mark Burton today announced the re-deployment of around 50 New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS) personnel to Afghanistan for up to 180 days from June this year.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

The Defence Ministers of Australia and New Zealand met in Victoria today to discuss key areas of ongoing cooperation such as capability development, joint operations and training, personnel development and command, control and communications.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Treaty Negotiations Minister Mark Burton welcomed the passage by Parliament today of the Ngäti Tüwharetoa (Bay of Plenty) Claims Settlement Act. The Act provides for the transfer of settlement assets agreed in the 2003 Deed of Settlement, and finalises the iwi’s historical Treaty of Waitangi claims.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

New Zealand will contribute two military observers to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan, Foreign Minister Phil Goff and Defence Minister Mark Burton announced today.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

A $4.6 billion 10-year package for New Zealand's defence ushers in a new era of funding and management

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Defence Minister Mark Burton has described National Party Leader Don Brash's comments on defence as a return to the bad old days of "policy on the hoof".

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

A new multi purpose national fire fighting training centre is being built in Rotorua

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

The Air Force’s ageing Iroquois helicopters are to be replaced by NH Industries’ NH90

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

The Minister Responsible for the Fire Service Commission has written directly to Fire Brigades around New Zealand to counter what he describes as “cynical election year misinformation” on the part of some opposition MP's.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

The Minister Responsible for the Fire Service Commission, Mark Burton reassurs New Zealand communities that there is no agenda to reduce appliance or service coverage in isolated rural stations, or anywhere else.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

A joint working group with Vietnam veterans and the RSA has been established to consider issues raised in a Health Select Committee report

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Mark Burton, Minister of Defence has today welcomed the release of the Controller and Auditor General’s (OAG) second report on the acquisition and introduction into service of the Light Armoured Vehicles (LAVs). (Ministry Of Defence And New Zealand Defence Force: Further Report On The Acquisition And Introduction Into Service Of Light Armoured Vehicles).

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Minister of Defence, Mark Burton today released papers from the Ministry of Defence and New Zealand Defence Force archives relating to allegations about the manufacture of Agent Orange in New Zealand.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Prime Minister Helen Clark announced the extensions of New Zealand Defence Force deployments in Afghanistan, and for the first time, the deployment of New Zealand Police to Bamyan to help rebuild the local police force.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

The $226 million C-130 Hercules upgrade contract was signed on Tuesday with suppliers L-3 Communications Spar Airspace.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Work has begun on the Ministerial Review into allegations of abuse at the Regular Force Cadet School at Waiouru.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence

Defence Minister Mark Burton today announced that former High Court Judge, Hon David Morris is to be appointed to act as independent assessor for the Ministerial Inquiry to examine the responses and comments received relating to alleged abuses at the Waiouru Regular Force Cadet School.

  • Mark Burton
  • Defence