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"It is fantastic Saturn Communications is now offering consumers choice resulting in better services and better prices," Minister of Communications Hon Maurice Williamson said today.

New Zealanders will continue to have access to top quality ballet, Cultural Affairs Minister, Hon Simon Upton, said today.

New Zealand's Environment Minister Simon Upton today welcomed a proposal by the International Petroleum Exchange to establish a traded market for CO2 emissions, in response to a challenge to London

A Women's Commissioner is to be appointed, delivering yet another of the Coalition Agreement initiatives, announced the Associate Minister of Women's Affairs, Deborah Morris.

The scene is set for a new system to assess how well primary school aged children are achieving, and what can be done to make students more successful.

Corrections Minister, Nick Smith, today announced that three new prisons will be built in the Northland and Auckland regions over the next three years including a new facility at Mt Eden.

Health Minister Bill English said an attack yesterday by Labour MP Pete Hodgson on a staff member of the Health Funding Authority was nasty and out of order, and he called on Labour to apologise.

The Minister of Justice, Hon D.A.M. Graham, said today that after a comprehensive examination, only the welfare area needed specific exemptions from the Human Rights Act.

Internal Affairs Minister Jack Elder welcomed the modernisation of the Fire Service announced by the Fire Service Commission today.

The Minister of Social Welfare, Hon Roger Sowry hopes that the House will reject the majority report from the Social Services Select Committee on the Social Security (Conjugal Status) Amendment Bil

"Mt Albert Grammar is among the many schools nationwide to benefit from extra government funding for new classrooms and upgrading work," Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said on opening Mt Albert Gramm

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley says she welcomes the involvement of business people in the debate on social responsibility.

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley says she expects the debate on social responsibility to continue after the official close-off date for submissions tomorrow.

Te Tai Rawhiti MP and Associate Treasurer, Hon Tuariki Delamere, said today he was delighted that traditional Maori performing arts were being formally recognised by the Government as an integral p

"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.