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Five hundred New Zealanders found a new job each week in the last year and people are moving from part-time into full-time employment, Treasurer Bill English said today.

  • Bill English
  • Treasurer

Labour energy spokesman Pete Hodgson has proved yet again how out of touch he is with the electricity market place, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Savings from the ACC changes introduced by National were contributing to research and development advances necessary for the knowledge economy, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

Labour's foreign policy would likely to see a return to `populism over principles', Foreign Minister Don McKinnon said today.

  • Don McKinnon
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Rural communities and their doctors are to get extra relief from a $3 million package to recruit and attract GPs to rural areas, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley announced today in Kerikeri.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

Treasurer Bill English today reconfirmed National's commitment to the dollar for dollar pledge to match tax reductions with increased social spending.

  • Bill English
  • Treasurer

Oman's progress toward membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is good news for New Zealand's exporters, according to Trade Minister Lockwood Smith.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • International Trade

Sir Ian McKay, currently president of the Electoral Commission and a Judge of the Court of Appeal from 1991 to 1997, has been appointed chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry into INCIS, Finance

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Education Minister Nick Smith today announced the establishment of Felix Donnelly College as a new state special school, at Tuakau, south of Auckland.

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

"National is committed to giving certainty and security about rural health services. The GPs package released today is part and parcel of that commitment," Health Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

New Zealand is donating NZ$200,000 to provide relief supplies following the powerful cyclone which struck eastern India last week, Associate Foreign Minister Simon Upton announced today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced Government approval for a $800,000 upgrade of the Whakapapa Visitor Centre involving substantial expansion of the building, new interactive displays

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Credit rating agency Moody's annual report on New Zealand confirms that we have a strong, adaptable economy, Treasurer Bill English said today.

"That is exactly what National's economic framework is designed to achieve and it is what New Zealand needs to move into the 21st century.

  • Bill English
  • Treasurer

"We always knew Michael Cullen was nasty, but we thought Helen Clark would be able to keep him on his leash for at least the first week of the campaign," said Roger Sowry.

  • Roger Sowry
  • Leader of the House

Minister for Tertiary Education Max Bradford today challenged Labour leader Helen Clark to come clean with the real facts of a student loan case she cited during the leaders debate last night.

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Helen Clark is wrong when she says that National's plans for tax reductions and social spending increases will take the government into deficit, Treasurer Bill English said today.

  • Bill English
  • Treasurer

With the handover of Te Puia Hospital on the East Coast to Ngati Porou Hauora - Maori are strengthening their leadership in shaping health services for their own people.

  • Georgina te Heuheu
  • Associate Minister of Health

"With Helen Clark's latest gaffe on how fast student loans grow she looks increasingly accident prone," said Roger Sowry.

  • Roger Sowry
  • Leader of the House

The Government will provide a $396,000 grant to the Gisborne District Council to assist with Millennium infrastructure, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley announced in Gisborne today.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

The facts about student loans are undermining one of Labour and the Alliance's main election platforms, Associate Education Minister David Carter said today.

  • David Carter
  • Senior Citizens

The Government is to transfer Te Puia Hospital on the East Coast to Ngati Porou Hauora - giving locals certainty about the future delivery of health services, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said in G

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

Senior Citizens Minister, David Carter, will recognise the voluntary contributions of 29 New Zealanders who contributed to International Year of Older Persons (IYOP) at a ceremony at the Beehive to

  • David Carter
  • Senior Citizens

Strengthening families is the key to a kinder and more successful New Zealand, and National, through our team effort by Ministers with Government agencies will help build and restore the confidence

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

The 1999 election is a test of the credibility of the main parties' leaders, their teams and how their plans could lift the prosperity of New Zealanders, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister