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Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Winston Peters has urged the Maori Council to help break the cycle of welfare dependency among Maori.

  • Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister

The policy of allowing some people without teaching qualifications to teach in schools appears to be working, the Minister responsible for the Education Review Office, Brian Donnelly, said today.

  • Brian Donnelly
  • Associate Minister of Education (Early Childhood Education and Maori Education)

The Coalition Government will introduce legislation this year to tighten up on immigration scams, Immigration Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Immigration

Energy Minister Max Bradford has welcomed today's reports of petrol companies dropping their wholesale petrol and diesel prices.

  • Max Bradford
  • Energy

Health Minister Bill English said a headline in the Otago Daily Times today stating that cancer testing was being cut back was wrong and irresponsible.

  • Bill English
  • Health

New Zealand Superannuation and social welfare income support payments will increase by 0.83% from 1 April 1998 to account for movement in the Consumers Price Index, Minister of Social Welfare, Hon.

  • Roger Sowry
  • Social Services, Work and Income

Minister of Transport Hon Maurice Williamson is to visit the King Country/ Taranaki next week (Monday 9/3 and Tuesday 10/3),as part of the wider road reform consultation process.

  • Maurice Williamson
  • Transport

"The agreement between the Government and the primary teachers' union over the final shape of the unified pay system for teachers is an historic achievement," Education Minister Wyatt Creech and As

  • Brian Donnelly
  • Associate Minister of Education (Early Childhood Education and Maori Education)

"The agreement between the Government and the primary teachers' union over the final shape of the unified pay system for teachers is an historic achievement," Education Minister Wyatt Creech and As

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education

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

  • Tony Ryall
  • State Owned Enterprises

Health Minister Bill English said today he had been assured that free breast cancer screening for all women between 50 and 64 years would begin by December this year.

  • Bill English
  • Health

The long upward growth in the number of people receiving a domestic purposes benefit appears to be slowing, the Minister of Social Welfare Hon Roger Sowry said today.

  • Roger Sowry
  • Social Services, Work and Income

The Government has brokered an arrangement between Mercury Energy, GEC (the principle contractor), Transpower and Transrail to dramatically accelerate construction of a temporary electricity supply

  • Max Bradford
  • Energy

The Government will proceed with a change to the Health and Safety Act in order to clarify the law and to ensure that farmers and recreational land users understand their responsibilities, Labour M

  • Max Bradford
  • Labour

Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Winston Peters has finally buried the Crown's involvement in the Equiticorp case by dispelling misinformation spread by former Labour Ministers.

  • Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister

"The president of the PPTA, Martin Cooney, should start focusing upon students' rights to an education," the Minister responsible for the Education Review Office Brian Donnelly said today.

  • Brian Donnelly
  • Associate Minister of Education (Early Childhood Education and Maori Education)

State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall met with the chair and chief executive of Landcorp, the Government's farming company, in Wellington today.

  • Tony Ryall
  • State Owned Enterprises

Associate Minister of Agriculture Hon John Luxton today announced the appointment of Mr David Irving, Mr Jozef Dames and Mr Jack Jenkins to the New Zealand Apple and Pear Marketing Board for 3 year

  • John Luxton
  • Associate Minister of Agriculture

The Minister of Fisheries, the Hon John Luxton, today announced that he has appointed Judge Peter Trapski to conduct an inquiry into a dispute between commercial and non-commercial fishing interest

  • John Luxton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

"New Zealand's reputation for world class excellence has been taken to a new level with the accreditation of four local wineries to ISO Standards," Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

The news that the two oil cables supplying Auckland's CBD are not able to be restored has been treated with dismay by the Government, Energy Minister Max Bradford said tonight.

  • Max Bradford
  • Energy

The Minister for Senior Citizens, Hon Robyn McDonald said today she was pleased that new legislation announced today by the Minister of Health, will provide greater protection and safety for older

  • Robyn McDonald
  • Consumer Affairs

Health Minister Bill English announced today that new legislation governing the safety of hospitals, rest homes and community residential care for people with disabilities would be introduced to Pa

  • Bill English
  • Health

Hon John Luxton, Minister of Fisheries, announced today that Cabinet has recently approved amendments to a number of fisheries regulations.

  • John Luxton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture