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Transport Minister Jenny Shipley is welcoming signs of a new attitude to alcohol among New Zealanders.
- Jenny Shipley
- Transport
The Minister for Courts, Hon D.A.M. Graham, today introduced legislation widening enforcement powers for fines collection and extending information matching to trace fines defaulters.
- Doug Graham
The Attorney-General Paul East announced today the appointment of William Gillow Gibbes Austen Young QC as a Judge of the High Court.
- Paul East
- Attorney-General
Dr Michael Cullen looked like a silly ostrich when he put his head in the sand today and tried to deny that tax reform in Australia will give them improved competitive advantage, Finance Minister S
- Bill Birch
- Finance
The New Zealand Listener's latest television advertisement which uses an implied instance of child abuse to promote the magazine is disgusting, says Roger Sowry.
- Roger Sowry
- Social Welfare
Allocations totalling nearly $5.7 million in discretionary grants for early childhood centres throughout the country were announced today by Associate Education Minister Brian Donnelly.
- Brian Donnelly
- Associate Minister of Education
The Government will spend more than $11 million over the next three years to ease the workload faced by teachers who teach in te reo Maori, Education Minister Wyatt Creech and Associate Education
- Brian Donnelly
- Associate Minister of Education
The Minister for the Environment, Simon Upton, announced today that the Government has agreed to a phase-out schedule for methyl bromide.
- Simon Upton
- Environment
The Minister of Education is giving an assurance that new base pay rates will be exactly the same for primary and secondary school principals 12 months after the current contract expires.
- Wyatt Creech
- Education
"The Labour party is indulging in wishful thinking if it believes New Zealanders will face an early election," Prime Minister-designate Jenny Shipley said today.
- Jenny Shipley
- Prime Minister
Prime Minister-elect Jenny Shipley this morning welcomed the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Prescott to New Zealand for a brief visit.
- Jenny Shipley
- Prime Minister
International Trade Minister Lockwood Smith says New Zealand has achieved a major breakthrough at APEC, with ministers endorsing an unprecedented and historic agreement to liberalise trade in fish
- Dr Lockwood Smith
- International Trade
"A historic agreement is in reach," International Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said from the APEC meeting in Vancouver today (Friday Canadian time).
- Dr Lockwood Smith
- International Trade
The Prime Minister, Rt Hon Jim Bolger, today presented Ngai Tahu with a set of pounamu (greenstone) taonga.
- Jim Bolger
- Prime Minister
Tertiary Education will take on a greater international dimension, with New Zealand tertiary providers wanting to ensure that this country's standards and qualifications meet global demands," said
- Maurice Williamson
- Research, Science and Technology
Education Minister Wyatt Creech announced today that the Government will provide $7 million in funding for private training establishments in the 1998 academic year.
- Wyatt Creech
- Education
The Government today announced significant remuneration increases for the country's 2,660 secondary, area and primary school principals.
- Wyatt Creech
- Education
The Crown Minerals Amendment no. 3 Bill passed yesterday provides certainty for mining and conservation interests on protected land, Energy Minister Max Bradford said.
- Max Bradford
- Energy
Business Development Minister Max Bradford said he and the Ministry of Commerce were working hard to enable business development grant payments to resume as soon as possible.
- Max Bradford
- Business Development
The Coalition Government is committed to a fair, flexible and neutral industrial relations environment and the public will be able to make full submissions on any changes to industrial relations le
- Max Bradford
- Labour
Health Minister Bill English said today the Government paid Plunket more than $19 million a year for its work in health for parents and young children.
- Bill English
- Health
The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Jim Bolger said today that the changeover of leadership will occur on Monday, 8 December.
- Jim Bolger
- Prime Minister
Cabinet has approved an auction of radio spectrum licences suitable for VHF-FM sound broadcasting, UHF - TV and VHF - TV, Minister of Communications Hon Maurice Williamson announced today.
- Maurice Williamson
- Communications