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Helen Clark should tell New Zealanders the truth - the first thing a left-wing government has to do is put up taxes, Treasurer Bill English said today.

  • Bill English
  • Treasurer

The first job of a National-led government will be to lock in economic growth by cutting taxes for working New Zealanders, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

New Zealand continues to make a big impact in our own small way in regional and international stability, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

National stands by its record on fairness, Treasurer Bill English said today.

  • Bill English
  • Treasurer

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith has welcomed the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) decision to establish a disputes settlement panel to consider New Zealand's case against the United States lamb safeg

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • International Trade

"The New Zealand Dairy Board is a deserving winner of the 1999 New Zealand Exporter of the Year Award.

  • John Luxton
  • Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control

New Zealand First has shown its true colours by walking away from New Zealand's defence needs, Defence Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Defence

New Zealand musicians have taken seven positions in the latest New Zealand Top 50 singles' chart, including the coveted number one spot for Deep Obsession with One & Only, Hon Marie Hasler, Min

  • Marie Hasler
  • Cultural Affairs

Environment Minister Simon Upton today responded swiftly to a sudden outburst on the RMA by Labour's Agriculture spokesman, Jim Sutton. "It was like some atavistic eruption from the past".

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Two Wananga (public Maori tertiary education institutions) are to get a $6.8 million capital funding injection, Tertiary Education Minister Max Bradford, Finance Minister Sir William Birch and Maor

  • Tau Henare
  • Maori Affairs

"New Zealand's strong growth in international visitor arrivals is continuing with visitor numbers reaching a new all time high for the third straight month" Tourism Minister, Hon Lockwood Smith, sa

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Tourism

Two Wananga (public Maori tertiary education institutions) are to get a $6.8 million capital funding injection, Tertiary Education Minister Max Bradford, Finance Minister Sir William Birch and Maor

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Two Wananga (public Maori tertiary education institutions) are to get a $6.8 million capital funding injection, Tertiary Education Minister Max Bradford, Finance Minister Sir William Birch and Maor

  • Max Bradford
  • Tertiary Education

The five year moratorium on urban highway building proposed in the Green Party's Transport Policy would be a huge leap backwards and delay projects such as Wellington's Transmission Gully, Transpor

  • Maurice Williamson
  • Transport

There are three issues that the election will boil down to.

The economy, jobs and stability.

  • Bill English
  • Treasurer

Last night's Crossfire on TVNZ with the Prime Minister delivered us yet again the familiar image of Mrs Shipley fighting valiantly under the constant attention of two Bren guns rat, tat, tatting aw

  • Simon Upton
  • Crown Research Institutes

A predicted track of slightly rising interest rates is what is supporting growth of around 4% over the next two years, Treasurer Bill English said today.

  • Bill English
  • Treasurer

The Minister of Health today announced blood donations would be subject to a new test to screen for HIV and hepatitis C.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

Six months into the new driver licensing regime and after more than 1 million photo licences have been issued, we've seen a dramatic reduction in disqualified driving figures, Transport Minister M

  • Maurice Williamson
  • Transport

The lives of hundreds of workers and their families are being enhanced with the opening of the new North City MegaCentre in Porirua, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

Education Minister Nick Smith today announced the Government decision to establish a New Zealand Teaching Council in response to the Green Paper on Teacher Education and the report released today f

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

The $2.25 million a year incubator programme to help innovators access the skills and finance they need for developing ideas will be launched by the end of April, Enterprise and Commerce Minister M

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Labour has been embarrassed again over political advertising with the complaints board throwing out its objections to National's ads on tax, Treasurer Bill English said today.

  • Bill English
  • Treasurer

Tourism Minister Lockwood Smith has welcomed the latest Tourism Industry Outlook, which shows strong growth in the tourism industry in the past year.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Tourism