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The government's approach to science, including genetic modification.

Progress and issues in the electricity industry.

Swift Energy - opening its Rimu Production Station.

Thank you for joining us today to celebrate World Refugee Day.

When I attended your conference in July, 2000 I listened to your concerns and spoke about understanding the need for changes in the industry. As Association members will be aware, since that time the government has acted upon those concerns. Over the past year we have had officials carry out a review of the Private Investigators and Security Guards Act.

Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me here today to open your new IT block or cyber-station

Thanks for inviting me to speak at this important – and timely - gathering.

Speech at the launch of the book Tree of Opportunity: Rethinking Pacific Education.

Water use is vital for New Zealand farming, and the management of water resources was crucial for dairy farmers if they were not to have regulatory controls forced upon them, Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton told the Dairy Farmers annual meeting in Wellington today (19 June 2002).

I recently met a Chinese politician who was described to me as “one of China’s young, new breed of future leaders.”

He was 64 years old.

I told him that at 64 I might just head to China and relaunch my political career.

Thank you very much for the invitation to address you this morning. Can I say this has become something of a mid-June tradition – this is the third year in a row that I've had the pleasure of opening your annual conference.

I would like to thank you for the invitation to address today’s function.

Maori history is full of stories of mana wahine. Papatuanuku is the mother of our atua, and through them, all of creation. Hine Ahu One is the female element, found in the earth, from whom all human beings were born.

Thank you for inviting me to speak today.

Minister for Information Technology Paul Swain talks about E-Farming at the Mystery Creek Field Days.

The opening the Gisborne Boy's High School technology suite.

My job doesn’t start when an offender enters one of my prisons, and end when he or she leaves. It starts in the homes of kids at risk, it starts in the schools when a kid becomes disruptive and skips class, it starts in the courts when a teenager appears before a judge on his first offence. And it continues when an offender is released from jail and returns to their family where there is a child waiting who doesn’t need to follow in dad’s foot-steps. It’s just common sense: if you want to stop crime, start early.

Speech to the Prison Fellowship of New Zealand conference, Matamata.

Speech to the Prison Fellowship of New Zealand conference, Matamata.

Address to the annual general meeting of Save the Children. Brentwood Hotel, Wellington.

Welcome everybody. I have to say I am very thrilled to be here today. Our 1999 sports policy stated that we would complete a review of long-term structural arrangements.

I was delighted to hear that following on from the success of “IntoNZ”, the new HiQ website has been developed specifically to link highly qualified migrants and New Zealand employers.

Alliance Deputy Leader Sandra Lee has paid tribute to retiring MPs and called for the marginalisation of small parties under MMP to be addressed in future.

Comments at the launch of New Zealand's Agenda for Children. Johnsonville School, Wellington.

It is a great pleasure for me to address today’s launch of an organisation which I am sure will play an important role in the future of the New Zealand economy.