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The Minister of Health, Bill English, announced today that he had initiated an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the cancellation before Christmas of cataract operations in Southland.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Priority will be given by the Ministry of Womens Affairs to addressing the gender pay gap between men and women.

  • Christine Fletcher
  • Women's Affairs

Associate Health Minister Neil Kirton added his voice to calls for parents and caregivers to ensure their children were adequately protected against measles in light of an epidemic predicted to occ

  • Neil Kirton
  • Associate Minister of Health

Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith, Employment Minister Peter McCardle and Social Welfare Minister Roger Sowry today announced assistance for fruit growers severely affected by recent hailstorms.

  • Peter McCardle
  • Employment

Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith, Employment Minister Peter McCardle and Social Welfare Minister Roger Sowry today announced assistance for fruit growers severely affected by recent hailstorms.

  • Roger Sowry
  • Social Welfare

Forestry Minister Lockwood Smith has confirmed that the East Coast Forestry Project (ECFP) will be independently reviewed next year.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Forestry

The Minister of Housing Murray McCully has authorised the release of a Coopers & Lybrand review of the Housing Corporations Mortgage Guarantee Scheme, which was scrapped in 1991.

  • Murray McCully
  • Housing

Foreign Minister Don McKinnon has expressed anger at the execution of six humanitarian aid workers, including one New Zealand nurse, in Chechnya.

  • Don McKinnon
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

New Zealand has signed an international convention to combat bribery, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith announced today.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

The Minister of Justice, Hon D.A.M. Graham, said today that the Government was not intending and had never intended to have a complete exemption for itself under the Human Rights Act.

  • Doug Graham
  • Justice

"This Ministry is a bold reflection of the diversity in New Zealand today. It will provide a strong Government for the new MMP era," said the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon J B Bolger, today.

  • Jim Bolger
  • Prime Minister

The Parliamentary Services Commission has been advised of the fact of the Historic Places Trust decision to register Broadcasting House on its list of historic places - but the Commission is yet to

  • Don McKinnon
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Housing Minister Murray McCully has confirmed that he has directed Housing New Zealand to impose an interim freeze on rents for current tenants pending a review of affordability issues.

  • Murray McCully
  • Housing

Foreign Minister Don McKinnon has welcomed the appointment of Mr C H Tung to the post of Chief Executive of Hong Kong's Government after its return to China in July 1997.

  • Don McKinnon
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

"Labour-Alliance's Justice team, Matt Robson and Phil Goff, were deafeningly silent last week as report after report made it clear New Zealanders want tougher sentences for the worst criminals," Ju

  • Tony Ryall
  • Justice

Minister of Defence, Paul East, leaves for Australia tomorrow (26 February) for the annual New Zealand-Australia Defence Ministers' talks.

  • Paul East
  • Defence