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A strong vote for Labour on Saturday will spell the end of job growth and the beginning of a dramatic rise in job-killing business costs, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford said today.

Associate Work and Income Minister Peter McCardle said the severance payment to a senior WINZ manager was properly authorised.

Labour MP Pete Hodgson has again shown his contempt for consumers as he tries to fudge Labour's appalling record of backing monopolies when it comes to the power reforms, Enterprise and Commerce Mi

Associate Foreign Minister, Rt Hon Simon Upton, today applauded the pioneering research completed this week by the New Zealand led Cape Roberts Project in Antarctica.

The Minister of Education, Nick Smith, and the Minister of Social Services, Work and Income, Roger Sowry, announced today the schools that will be invited to participate in the Government's expande

"National will hold an initial referendum on MMP in May next year followed by a binding second referendum in November should New Zealanders vote to reconsider the electoral system," Justice Ministe

Helen Clark should tell New Zealanders the truth - the first thing a left-wing government has to do is put up taxes, Treasurer Bill English said today.

The first job of a National-led government will be to lock in economic growth by cutting taxes for working New Zealanders, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

New Zealand continues to make a big impact in our own small way in regional and international stability, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

National stands by its record on fairness, Treasurer Bill English said today.

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith has welcomed the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) decision to establish a disputes settlement panel to consider New Zealand's case against the United States lamb safeg

"The New Zealand Dairy Board is a deserving winner of the 1999 New Zealand Exporter of the Year Award.

New Zealand First has shown its true colours by walking away from New Zealand's defence needs, Defence Minister Max Bradford said today.

New Zealand musicians have taken seven positions in the latest New Zealand Top 50 singles' chart, including the coveted number one spot for Deep Obsession with One & Only, Hon Marie Hasler, Min

Environment Minister Simon Upton today responded swiftly to a sudden outburst on the RMA by Labour's Agriculture spokesman, Jim Sutton. "It was like some atavistic eruption from the past".

Two Wananga (public Maori tertiary education institutions) are to get a $6.8 million capital funding injection, Tertiary Education Minister Max Bradford, Finance Minister Sir William Birch and Maor

"New Zealand's strong growth in international visitor arrivals is continuing with visitor numbers reaching a new all time high for the third straight month" Tourism Minister, Hon Lockwood Smith, sa

Two Wananga (public Maori tertiary education institutions) are to get a $6.8 million capital funding injection, Tertiary Education Minister Max Bradford, Finance Minister Sir William Birch and Maor

Two Wananga (public Maori tertiary education institutions) are to get a $6.8 million capital funding injection, Tertiary Education Minister Max Bradford, Finance Minister Sir William Birch and Maor

The five year moratorium on urban highway building proposed in the Green Party's Transport Policy would be a huge leap backwards and delay projects such as Wellington's Transmission Gully, Transpor

A predicted track of slightly rising interest rates is what is supporting growth of around 4% over the next two years, Treasurer Bill English said today.

The Minister of Health today announced blood donations would be subject to a new test to screen for HIV and hepatitis C.

Six months into the new driver licensing regime and after more than 1 million photo licences have been issued, we've seen a dramatic reduction in disqualified driving figures, Transport Minister M

The lives of hundreds of workers and their families are being enhanced with the opening of the new North City MegaCentre in Porirua, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.