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Stewart Island/Rakiura has been granted $3.16 million from the Provincial Growth Fund to help build two wind turbines, putting the island on a path to sustainable electricity generation, Environment Minister David Parker announced today.

  • Hon David Parker
  • Environment

A major new report on the global economy shows New Zealand is in good shape amid increased global headwinds.

  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Finance

The Coalition commitment to add 1800 new Police officers to frontline policing has been achieved with the graduation of 59 constables from the Royal New Zealand Police College today.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Prime Minister
  • Deputy Prime Minister
  • Police

Ensuring APEC work gets input from diverse New Zealand business and trade interests is behind three new appointments to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

A four-month investigation by former Environment Court judge Professor Peter Skelton found that Otago’s freshwater planning system is not fit for purpose to manage the region’s rivers, lakes and aquifers and that the Council has inadequate rules for the taking of water and the discharge of nutrients.

  • Hon David Parker
  • Environment

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters departs New Zealand today to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Nagoya at the invitation of this year’s G20 President, Japan.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister
  • Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters today announced the appointment of diplomat Carl Reaich as New Zealand’s next Ambassador to the European Union.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister
  • Foreign Affairs

Innovation and technology are behind five new tools to give nature a helping hand by helping eliminate predators, funded through the PGF.

  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Fletcher Tabuteau
  • Conservation
  • Regional Economic Development

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has welcomed the first reading of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation 2021 (APEC 2021) Bill in Parliament today.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister
  • Foreign Affairs

The Government is making progress on improving the wellbeing of the one million New Zealanders under the age of 18,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on World Children’s Day.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Tracey Martin
  • Prime Minister
  • Child Poverty Reduction
  • Children

Minister for Women Julie Anne Genter has released a new report celebrating the contribution of Māori women in business across Aotearoa New Zealand.

  • Hon Julie Anne Genter
  • Women

Four parcels of land have been bought in Omokoroa, in the Western Bay of Plenty District, for an education facility that will accommodate both a primary and secondary school on a campus-like facility, Education Minister Chris Hipkins said today.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

The first stock-take of the Government’s Families Package shows families are getting real support to raise their children after a decade of being left behind,” Minister of Social Development Carmel Sepuloni said.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development

New rules to clamp down on overzealous wheel clamping and extortionate fees charged in order to release a vehicle have passed their final stage in Parliament today.

  • Hon Kris Faafoi
  • Commerce and Consumer Affairs

An independent Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission is a step closer after it unanimously passed its first vote in Parliament today. 

  • Hon Dr David Clark
  • Health

We’ve improved border security with the NZeTA, New Zealand Electronic Travel Authority, which helps us to screen travellers for border and immigration risks off-shore before they travel to New Zealand. It was launched in August and became mandatory on 1 October 2019.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • Immigration

A proposed national plan of action to reduce the number of seabirds caught in fisheries is being circulated for public feedback.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

The Government is delivering on its promise to protect New Zealanders’ interests by applying a new national interest test to the sales of our most sensitive and high risk assets to overseas buyers.

  • Hon David Parker
  • Finance

The Government is building special housing to accommodate one of Aotearoa’s greatest taonga- our kaumātua, says the Minister for Māori Development, Hon Nanaia Mahuta.

  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Māori Development

Eleven men from a pilot forestry training programme for prisoners in Northland now have full time jobs or job offers upon release, Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis and Forestry Minister Shane Jones announced today.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Corrections
  • Regional Economic Development

Minister of State Services Chris Hipkins today introduced into Parliament a Bill that will make it easier for the public service to tackle the biggest challenges facing Governments.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • State Services

The families of more than 416,000 students will be better off next year as their schools have signed up to the Government’s donations scheme, Education Minister Chris Hipkins said today.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has announced further support as the Government of Samoa responds to a serious measles outbreak.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister
  • Foreign Affairs

It is a pleasure to be with you this morning to open this year’s New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Conference and AGM.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister
  • Racing