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Good afternoon: It is a pleasure to be here, and to share some thoughts with you at the close of the 6th New Zealand Biosecurity Summit.

Good morning. Mayor Bob Parker, Dr Andrew West, Professor Andrew Bell, Bill Falconer, delegates, ladies and gentlemen.

Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton has agreed to the request for a further two-year closure of green-lipped mussel beds in Ohiwa Harbour, Bay of Plenty.

Madam Speaker, I move that the Fisheries Act Amendment Bill (No. 2) be now read for a first time.

My colleague Transport Minister Annette King is unable to be with us today to share this celebration, and she asked me to pass on to you her congratulations and very best wishes for a successful da

I would like to start out by acknowledging Keith Ingram. This is Keith’s last year as President of the Recreational Fishing Council.

When it comes to New Zealand food I am reminded of an old story about a couple of American tourists who arrived here and went out looking to try some genuine New Zealand food.

I think the topic a rural- urban split is requires us to look at what each of us contributes.

A few years ago the then President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, was being interviewed about the state of the Russian economy.

It seems forever ago now that we in New Zealand read of cases that shocked us overseas - like Mad Cow disease, or BSE, that rocked the meat industry in the eighties and darkened in the nineties as

Speech notes for address to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation High-Level Conference on World Food Security: The Challenge of Climate Change and Bioenergy.

Madam Speaker, In supporting the Prime Minister’s statement, and speaking as Leader of the Progressive Party, may I say that as one gets older, it is increasingly possible to see and particip

Back in Wellington when my staff told me I had been invited up here to talk about mushrooms, I asked them what the event was all about.

Last month I had the pleasure of going along to a graduation from this ITO.

Coming here today I’m reminded of the story about a minister of fisheries - not that long ago - who found himself having to give a few hard messages to the industry.

Chancellor, Mr Nigel Gould, 

Vice Chancellor,

Members of Council,

Distinguished guests and staff, and especially graduands and graduates and family.

Your school motto, "Founded on Tradition, Focussed on the Future" could easily be the motto of our primary industries. Our farming is certainly built on tradition.

It’s good to have the opportunity to speak to you today about the issues affecting our farms.

I have seen from your programme that you also have a number of distinguished New Zealand speakers.

I welcome this forum and I am grateful for the opportunity to join you here. I welcome it because I think the issue of the harm caused by drugs and alcohol is important.

Speech notes for speech to the South Canterbury Monitor Farm Public Field Day.

If there is one of my favourite sights as a sports fan, it is watching a New Zealand batsman reach a century in any sort of match.

I would like to start with an acknowledgement of the tangata whenua, Ngati Kahungunu ki Heretaunga.  Also representatives from Maori fishing around New Zealand. I pay respects to you.

Speech notes for Jim Anderton's address to meeting of the University of the Third Age. Christchurch

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