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$400,000 has been allocated in the Budget towards providing assistance to Mayoral and community groups working on strategies and plans to assist their communities overcome any difficulties resultin

  • John Luxton
  • Commerce

Sustainable land management in the South Island High Country will be improved through more money for the Land Tenure Review Programme, Minister of Lands John Luxton said today.

  • John Luxton
  • Land Information

Five Russian vessels forfeited to the Crown in February will be returned to their Russian owners, Murmansk-based firm Karelrybflot, Minister of Fisheries John Luxton announced today.

  • John Luxton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

In response to a unanimous request from the motor vehicle industry, motor vehicle tariffs, currently at 22.5 percent, will be totally removed at midnight tonight.

  • John Luxton
  • Commerce

The Minister of Maori Affairs, Tau Henare today announced a review of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 (The Maori Land Act).

  • Tau Henare
  • Maori Affairs

Changes to welfare benefits herald a radical change in welfare direction and reinforce the Coalition Government's belief that paid work is the key to achieving personal economic and social independ

  • Roger Sowry
  • Social Services, Work and Income

Children and families in need will benefit from an extra $101 million being set aside over the next three years for services, the Minister of Social Welfare Roger Sowry said today.

  • Roger Sowry
  • Social Services, Work and Income

"Today's Budget gives New Zealanders good reason to be confident about the future," Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

"New Zealand deeply deplores India's action in exploding two further nuclear devices," Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

New Commerce graduates were asked, at a breakfast speech by the Minister of Youth Affairs, to remember their responsibility to communities and their role in creating a decent society.

  • Deborah Morris
  • Youth Affairs

The Opposition has been unable to come up with any facts in its personal vendetta against the Chairman of the Fire Service Commission, Internal Affairs Minister Jack Elder said today.

  • Jack Elder
  • Police

Foreign Minister, Don McKinnon, today expressed the Government ?s concern about recent developments in Indonesia, including the killing of six students during a political demonstration in Jakarta y

  • Don McKinnon
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Health Minister Bill English warned today that constant hostility in Dunedin to public health agencies could mean the city lost the race for the jobs that went with the Health Funding Authority sup

  • Bill English
  • Health

The Minister of Commerce announced today that the budget will include increased funding for the Commerce Commisison.

  • John Luxton
  • Commerce

The Opposition has been unable to come up with any facts in its personal vendetta against the Chairman of the Fire Service Commission, Internal Affairs Minister Jack Elder said today.

  • Jack Elder
  • Internal Affairs

The Minister of Maori Affairs, the Hon Tau Henare and the Minister of Communications, the Hon Maurice Williamson, today announced that Maori will be asked to consider at a hui planned for July 1998

  • Maurice Williamson
  • Communications

The Coalition Government will recall for consultations, its High Commissioner in New Delhi, following India's testing of three nuclear devices, Foreign Minister and Minister for Disarmament, Don Mc

  • Don McKinnon
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Energy Minister Max Bradford today welcomed energy company Powerco's launch of leading technology that will enable residential electricity and gas consumers to manage their power use and choose the

  • Max Bradford
  • Energy

The Coalition Government is committed to eliminating discrimination in the workplace, Labour Minister Max Bradford and Associate Women's Affairs Minister Deborah Morris said today when announcing a

  • Max Bradford
  • Labour

Labour Minister Max Bradford today announced an extra $1.031 million in funding over three years for the Employment Tribunal to ensure it can continue to hold hearings in provincial centres.

  • Max Bradford
  • Labour

"The Government and Auckland University are working to resolve the issues raised in the Occupational Safety and Health report on mortuary services at Auckland Medical School," Education Minister Wy

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education

Health Minister Bill English announced today that he would introduce legislation allowing the Government to extend the right to prescribe medicines to nurses under certain conditions.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Labour, the Alliance and the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists were the toxic trio of health because they opposed anything and everything, Health Minister Bill English said today.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Waitakere Mayor Bob Harvey's three-day journey to Wellington should give him ample time to reflect on the actual facts of the Fire Service modernisation plan, Internal Affairs Minister Jack Elder s

  • Jack Elder
  • Internal Affairs