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Ken Shirley's resignation as chairman of the transport and environment select committee confirms he is a part-time MP drawing a full-time salary, Deputy Prime Minister and New Zealand First Leader

Don McKinnon will become New Zealand's first Foreign Minister to officially visit Latin America when he makes a five-nation visit to Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile from May 26 to June 1

Energy Minister Max Bradford today rejected the "extraordinary statements" made by the Electricity Supply Association of New Zealand (ESANZ) following the introduction of the Government's electrici

The Minister of Education said today he was treating very seriously repeated accusations from the PPTA President that the Minister was a "liar."

"The Government's ongoing programme to reduce costs to the primary sector takes another step forward today with the appointment of the MQM Meat and MQM Food Establishment Boards," State Owned Enter

Electronic commerce via the Internet has been made safe from customs duties, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said from Geneva today.

The world's most powerful country, the United States, has agreed to support the Cairns Group's trade liberalisation vision for the 1999 agricultural negotiations, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said

Health Minister Bill English announced today that Ms Patricia Seymour had been appointed chair of the Board of Tairawhiti Healthcare Ltd.

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley commended the decision by Indonesian President Soeharto to resign today as a step towards promised political reforms.

Customs Minister, Hon Tuariki Delamere, said tonight that any importers who tried to exploit a loophole in the law concerning the tariffs on imported luxury cars would find it a very expensive exer

"A grant of $117,000 for the New Zealand Film Archive's Rosier Fund will help ensure the safekeeping of this country's film heritage", the Minister of Cultural Affairs, Hon Simon Upton, said today.

The historical records of Births, Deaths and Marriages are to be computerised, Internal Affairs Minister Jack Elder announced today.

The rules relating to details permitted on memorials for ex-service people will change, Internal Affairs Minister Jack Elder said today.

"The PPTA leadership is being very provocative and irresponsible in using secondary school aged students as pawns in their political campaign," Education Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley says she's delighted to announce that the Auckland Mayoral Forum, the chairs of the Auckland Regional Council (ARC) and the Auckland Regional Services Trust (ARST) and

Associate Treasurer Hon Tuariki Delamere has welcomed the extra funding of almost half a million dollars announced in last week's Budget for the Books in Homes programme, operated by the Alan Duff

Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Winston Peters says the disclosure of Telecom's profit is cause for concern - not at the profits - but how they have been derived.

The pathetic gesture by the Professional Firefighters' Union to complain to the Race Relations Conciliator was totally condemned today by Internal Affairs Minister Jack Elder.

A story on gun control published in Monday's New Zealand Herald stated the Government had decided to buy-back firearms, Police Minister Jack Elder said today.

"This is incorrect.

Labour Minister Max Bradford today announced the appointment of Ross Mulholland as a new member of the Higher Salaries Commission.

Tourism Minister Murray McCully has welcomed the appointment of Scott Morrison as inaugural Director of the Office of Tourism and Sport, which will enable the new top-level policy unit to be in ope

"The PPTA leadership appears to be preparing to use the secondary teacher pay talks to fight what is simply just a political campaign against Government policy," Education Minister Wyatt Creech sai

New education legislation introduced to Parliament today gives effect to a change in the
administration of senior teachers' pay, and clarifies the law governing the mergers of tertiary

Radio New Zealand will investigate converting National Radio from the current AM band to the FM band, Minister Responsible for Radio New Zealand Hon Tony Ryall said today.