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"An earlier statement from the New Zealand Telecommunications Industry Organisation (NZTIO) claiming my support for placing New Zealand's telephone numbers under independent control is not correct,

"I'm extremely disappointed following a meeting Wednesday evening (6 May 1998) between Ministers and the National Maori Organisations that some of the participants have decided to speak publicly ab

Neil Kirton was today slammed by the Associate Minister of Women's Affairs, Deborah Morris, and her New Zealand First colleagues, Robyn McDonald, Ann Batten and Jenny Bloxham, for his flippant comm

Immigration Minister Max Bradford today announced a $23 million funding injection and legislative package designed to combat immigration scams.

The increase in the official unemployment rate of.4 percent, while unwelcome, is not surprising given the slowing of economic growth, and the Asian downturn, the Minister of Employment Peter McCard

Corrections Minister, Nick Smith, announced today that a new remand unit will be built at Christchurch Prison next year eventually replacing the old city prison at Addington.

Health Minister Bill English said a fairer system for patients was behind the national strategy on general practice being developed by the Health Funding Authority.

The Labour Party is bitterly divided over the future of indigenous forestry on the West Coast, Forestry Minister Lockwood Smith said today.

Individuals, families, households and groups have just two days to have their say and respond to the proposed Code of Social and Family Responsibility, says Minister of Social Welfare Hon Roger Sow

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said the Coalition Government is determined to create an environment in which farmers and people with small businesses can do well.

Terms of Reference for the scoping study of the Crown's ownership interest in Television New Zealand (TVNZ) were released today by Treasurer Winston Peters, Finance Minister Bill Birch and SOE Mini

Terms of Reference for the scoping study of the Crown's ownership interest in Television New Zealand (TVNZ) were released today by Treasurer Winston Peters, Finance Minister Bill Birch and SOE Mini

"The PPTA leadership's motives for refusing to negotiate pay issues must now be seriously questioned with the revelation it wants teachers to take industrial action over bulk funding," Education Mi

"The PPTA leadership's motives for refusing to negotiate pay issues must now be seriously questioned with the revelation it wants teachers to take industrial action over bulk funding," Education Mi

The risk of babies in New Zealand being still born or dying in their first week of life remain at record low levels, Health Minister Bill English said today.

Health Minister Bill English said today that spending on the Government's free under-sixes policy was on target.

The Minister of Justice, Hon D.A.M. Graham, today announced the appointment of Rotorua Barrister and Solicitor David Samuel Dowthwaite as a Coroner.

The Government's decision to consult on a proposal to end unsustainable rimu logging on the West Coast had nothing to do with the Labour Party, Forestry Minister Lockwood Smith said tonight.

The Government will begin consultations with signatories to the West Coast Accord and other affected parties over a proposal to end the unsustainable logging of indigenous forests by Timberlands We

"They are protesting against an agreement which will not be signed in the foreseeable future and which wouldn't have done any of the things they think it would have done," Trade Minister Lockwood S

"Prime Minister Hashimoto's economic stimulus package is a positive and constructive move to rebuild confidence in the Japanese economy," Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

Consideration of Local Government reorganisation in the Hawkes Bay should not encounter abnormal delays, the Minster of Local Government, Hon Maurice Williamson announced today.

Privacy Commissioner Bruce Slane is confused about the facts surrounding photographic licences, announced Minister of Transport Hon Maurice Williamson today.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Don McKinnon today announced a $1 million dollar aid package to help kick-start reconstruction on Papua New Guinea's war torn island of Bougainville.