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We are here tonight to celebrate another stage in the life of The Film Unit.

- I am very pleased to have been invited to open today’s conference.

My thanks go to Ngai Tahu for their invitation and welcome here today.
Our presence here at Onuku is a reminder to us all that the Treaty of Waitangi was signed not just at one place on one day but in many places on many days.

This is a great occasion for Wellington and for sevens rugby.

I am very pleased to have been invited to open today’s symposium.

Thank you Goran Olssen and Stephen Crombie for inviting me to launch Ericsson’Cs new Mobile Applications Service Provider. Your decision locate this centre in Wellington will put New Zealand on the crest of the next wave of technological innovation.

Mr Speaker, I move that the Accident Insurance (Transitional Provisions) Bill 1999 be now read [a second time].

Speech Notes

Hon Mark Burton
Minister of Tourism

Destination Lake Taupo Industry Forum
Tuesday, 18 January 2000

At midnight we farewelled the twentieth century and the second millennium. At dawn we saw the first light of the twenty-first century and the third millennium.

Cabinet Minister and Alliance deputy leader Sandra Lee summarises the political highlights of 1999.

The bill introduces a top personal income tax rate of 39 percent on incomes above $60,000 from the next income year. This is a small increase of 6 cents in the dollar for those who can most afford to help sustain basic services like health, education and superannuation.

It is a privilege for me to exercise the prerogative of Her Majesty and open the 46th Parliament.

Keynote Speech to the NZ Labour Party Annual Conference 2000, Wellington Town Hall