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I enjoy attending to gatherings in the regional centres. Apart from taking me into parts of the country I seldom visit, it is in the smaller centres where you can see more clearly the potential for community action.

MAC's Preliminary Report - Biowhat? - was launched in March this year on Bill Garland's farm in the Waikato. It was a beautiful day and there was a real air of optimism that John Kneebone and his team would find a relatively painless way through the thicket of thorny issues that surround biodiversity conservation.

Greetings to fellow panelists : Deborah Sims (senior manager Content Regulation Australian Broadcasting Authority), Liam Miller (Managing Director RTE Ireland).

It's almost a year since the election. This government came in making a number of pledges, which we have kept.

Good morning and thank you for this opportunity to open your annual conference.

It's a pleasure to be here and to meet the people at the tip face, so to speak. Waste management is a priority for this government and a priority for people I hear from everyday.

Thank you for inviting me to speak to the 91st Annual General Meeting of Presbyterian Support Central today. Particularly welcome, since I chaired the Board of Presbyterian Support (Upper South Island).

We kept them because we felt an air of cynicism, which, if it continued, would destroy the essence of democracy.

Children learn everywhere – shop windows, street signs, listening to adult conversations, games, in classrooms and in front of the television set.

Visual Soil Assessment a practical tool for farmers

I am pleased to be here today at the launch of Wai Care. I congratulate you on the tremendous work that is being done here in Auckland. You are taking a leading role nationally to address urban water quality issues. Wai Care is a stunning example of the success which community-council partnerships can have.

I see from your programme that yesterday was focused on growth and where the economy is going. I note that Phil Warren has given you a presentation on Growth Management, something that, you will no doubt agree, is absolutely essential if Auckland is to approach anything like a livable community - or reducing one's expectations slightly, to be even close to a human scale city.

Community the key to achieving environmental 'big picture'

I am pleased to be here today at the launch of “Te Raranga A Mahi” a tool kit to assist whanau, hapu and iwi develop environmental management plans

Today September 8 is the United Nations International Literacy Day.

In 1992 a Government waste management policy was agreed:

to ensure that as far as practicable, New Zealand waste generators meet the cost of the waste they produce
and to encourage the implementation of the internationally recognised hierarchy of reduction, reuse, recycling, recovery and residual management by all involved in waste generation and management in New Zealand.

Thanks for coming. Thank you even more for being members of such a network – because there is a major rethink that has to occur.

Ladies and gentlemen, thanks for the opportunity to speak to you today. And congratulations for pulling together such a conference. It is timely and valuable my comments today focus largely on the first theme of the symposium- marrying trade and development and environment.

ARANZ represents a wide spectrum of interests concerned with archives and record keeping.

Broadcasting is important to community building. Children are part of that community. We live in a global society and it is important to recognise what makes us different from others.

I move that the Archives, Culture and Heritage Reform Bill now be read for the first time. I intend to move, at the conclusion of this debate, that the Bill be referred to the Government Administration Committee for consideration and report back by 4 September 2000.

I am pleased to welcome you all here today. I must say that I am very impressed by the interest generated by this launch of New Zealand’s first Land Cover Database.

At the beginning of this year, the Government embarked on an extensive programme of work on broadcasting policy.

New Zealanders are living in a changing world