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[Address to Agribusiness and Food Congress, Christchurch Convention Centre]

I hope you haven’t yet had your fill of climate change and genetic modification today, because that’s what I’m going to talk about.

Chairman Brian Lynch, executive director Stephen Jacobi, ladies and gentlemen: This is a timely gathering.

In just over a week’s time, trade ministers from the 142 World Trade Organisation member countries will be meeting in Doha, Qatar.

[Address to the Electricity Networks Association of New Zealand annual general meeting, Te Papa, Wellington]

Thank you for inviting me to speak today.

Welcome to the official launch of the WAVE Report. It is probably the only chance that I will ever have when making a speech to WAVE to the audience legitimately and unpretentiously.

Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me here today to speak to you about the Government’s vision for the care and support of older people.

Chairman Bruce Munro, ladies and gentlemen: As a long-time wool producer, as well as the holder of two significant economic portfolios, I appreciate the opportunity to attend part of your conference and to convey to you some of my own views.

President Eric Wilson, Ladies and Gentlemen: thank you for the invitation to be here this morning.

Fonterra deputy chairman Greg Gent, ladies and gentlemen: thank you for the opportunity to speak at this illustrious gathering.

ADDRESS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO COLLOQUIM ON TERRORISM – UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO, SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2001The world changed on September 11, 2001.

[speech to Asia Pacific League for Freedom and Democracy, New Zealand Chapter at the Hyatt Hotel)

Mr Chairman, Secretary-General, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen

Thank you for the invitation to your conference this morning.

Saturday 27 October 2001. Embargoed until delivery – 11 amSpeech Notes

Kia ora, kia orana, talofa lava, ni sa bula, taloha ni, fakaalofa lahi atu, malo e lelei and greetings to you all.

Thank you for inviting me to speak to you this evening about the New Zealand Disability Strategy. I must say it is a pleasure to be speaking on a topic other than rugby injuries, which have rather dominated my attention over the last 24 hours.

In an electoral sense, this is like my mid-year report to you. The Government is just over half way through its first term and this is an opportunity for me to go over the commitments we made to the education sector, and how we have progressed those commitments.

Carol and I are particularly pleased to be here to share in this celebration of the achievements of the Taupo District's youth.

Kia ora koutou katoa. Good afternoon.

The big tax news this week has obviously been the Tax Review's final report to the government. Because of the importance of the review, I shall devote a good part of this speech to it, before updating you on other tax policy matters.

Thanks for inviting me here to help launch the Flaxmere Computers in Homes project.

Good morning and welcome to New Zealand, to the 17th Alzheimers Disease International Conference. I hope you have slept well and your body clocks are beginning to adjust to our time zone.

Thank you for the invitation to speak to you today and I welcome the chance to talk about the topic you have chosen for me - New Zealand and Australia, a borderless market – fact or fiction?

The government came into office with a policy plank of improving confidence in the sharemarket.

Ladies and Gentlemen: New Zealand is an agricultural trading nation. We make the vast majority of our money by selling our dairy products, our meat and wool, and our trees to other countries.

Opening Address to the Positive Ageing Forum
Wellington Law School
Wellington

Thank you for joining us today at this forum, which has as its theme ‘Positive ageing in a World of Diversity’.

Bill Bayliss (Chair of Fiordland Travel),
Bryan Hutchins (Chief Executive of Fiordland Travel),
Jim Young (Fiordland Travel Chief Engineer),
Les and Olive Hutchins (founders of Fiordland Travel),

Thank you for the invitation to speak to you today.

I would like to take this opportunity to talk about some of the things we've been doing over the past couple of years to help small businesses such as those operated by those of you here.