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Saturn Communications launch of a local residential telephone service in Wellington, to supplement the company's other service offerings has today been welcomed by the Minister of Communications Ho

  • Maurice Williamson
  • Communications

The Coalition Government is to fund two exciting new initiatives that will help young people lead safer lives, said the Minister of Youth Affairs, Deborah Morris.

  • Deborah Morris
  • Youth Affairs

New Zealand has sought a pause in negotiations on the OECD's proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Winston Peters and Acting Finance Minister Lock

  • Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister

Education Minister Wyatt Creech announced plans today to put amendments to the Education Act before Parliament to clarify the provisions that allow tertiary education institutions to join forces.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that the Department of Conservation would be establishing a new apprenticeship programme to enhance the skills of field level staff.

  • Nick Smith
  • Corrections

The Minister of Fisheries, Hon John Luxton, is to recommend to Cabinet that the prohibition on the export of Bluff oysters under the Customs and Excise Act be lifted from October.

  • John Luxton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

New Zealand has sought a pause in negotiations on the OECD's proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Winston Peters and Acting Finance Minister Lock

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Finance

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith has welcomed today's decision by the Australian High Court that New Zealand television programmes must be included in Australia's local contents quota.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

"The Blue Sky team is to be congratulated for their ongoing efforts to increase the market for New Zealand made television programming," Minister of Communications Hon Maurice Williamson said today

  • Maurice Williamson
  • Transport

The Minister of Local Government, Hon Maurice Williamson, announced today that the Government is in the process of appointing a new Local Government Commission as the term of the existing Commissio

  • Maurice Williamson
  • Local Government

Education Minister Nick Smith today released a Ministry of Education report on bulk funded schools which concludes that the controversial system for resourcing schools is enhancing student learning

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

The New Zealand Employment Service will pick up responsibility for the supported employment sector of the New Zealand Community Funding Agency from 1 July 1998, Employment Minister Peter McCardle a

  • Peter McCardle
  • Employment

The New Zealand Employment Service will pick up responsibility for the supported employment sector of the New Zealand Community Funding Agency from 1 July 1998, Employment Minister Peter McCardle a

  • Nick Smith
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley will be in Taranaki/ King Country from Monday evening to Thursday this week, urging people to vote for their future on Saturday by voting National.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley says Labour is not credible or believable in its health promises.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today promised a $1 million dollar boost in this year's Budget for marine conservation.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Health Minister Bill English today warned Labour's health spokeswoman Annette King that she might be about to lose her job.

  • Bill English
  • Health

The New Zealand Government will be represented at the ANZAC Dawn Service in Sydney by the Minister of Transport, Hon Maurice Williamson.

  • Maurice Williamson
  • Transport

Job seekers on the community wage will never work for less than the minimum wage, Employment Minister Peter McCardle said today.

  • Peter McCardle
  • Employment

Hundreds of rural children are assured of help from the dental nurse with the launch today by Health Minister Bill English of the first of three new mobile clinics.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English said today older people needed to know they did not have to put up with the winter flu and all the discomfort it brought.

  • Bill English
  • Health

The Minister of Justice, Hon D.A.M.

  • Doug Graham
  • Justice

Potiential abuse of legitimate customary fishing rights will be prevented through new regulations governing customary fishing in the South Island, the Minister of Fisheries, Hon John Luxton, said t

  • John Luxton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Deputy Prime Minister and New Zealand First Leader, Winston Peters, said today he was pleased that the message of the real meaning of MMP appeared to be finally getting through.

  • Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister