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Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith has announced a comprehensive plan to assist Marlborough farmers.

New Zealand will participate in the multinational Coalition formed to pursue Iraq's compliance with United Nations obligations to abandon its illegal weapons of mass destruction programmes, the Pri

The Government has not been asked to consider, nor has it considered sending a frigate to the Persian Gulf, Defence Minister Max Bradford said today.

Business Development Minister Max Bradford says today's High Court judgement on the suspension of business development grants confirms that it is proper for him to act to prevent boards making gr

To all the participants in the conference, my warm hearted greetings.

Health Minister Bill English said today the findings of a report into the current population based funding formula for health would be a major disappointment to the Dunedin Health Action Group.

The Government's approach to funding health services suitable for young people has lead to $2.5 million being pumped into the innovative One Stop Shops this year, says Hon Deborah Morris.

Health Minister Bill English announced today that children would be given priority on hospital waiting lists for assessments and surgery with the new money the Government was planning to allocate t

Health Minister Bill English said today steps were being taken to further reduce the cost of administering the public health service.

Health Minister Bill English said today solving the underlying causes of youth suicide was extremely difficult and it was not a problem that could be pinpointed as a failing of the health system.

Cabinet today authorised the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister responsible for overseeing Waitangi Day activities, Hon Winston Peters, to approve spending of up to $100,000 for the celebration of

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The $59 million higher than forecast operating surplus recorded in the Government's Financial Statements for the five months to November 1997 are further evidence the Government is in a healthy fin

More young New Zealanders will be able to experience the thrills of reading and books thanks to extra Government funding announced today for the Alan Duff "Books in Homes" programme.

A new law passing its final hurdle in Parliament today helps ensure school aged students don't miss out on the quality education they need, Education Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

Schools in high cannabis growing regions in New Zealand will be the first to benefit from drug education programmes from the beginning of the new school year Minister of Education, Wyatt Creech, an

Conservation Minister, Nick Smith today released scientific research from a joint Department of Conservation and Auckland University project, indicating that the remnants of the once numerous New Z

The new Minister for Biosecurity, Hon John Luxton today commended the Ministry of Health's initiation of prompt follow-up action to a MAF inspector's detection of Asian tiger mosquito larvae on an

"The Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty, which comes into effect on 14 January 1998, will usher in a strict new regime of environmental management for Antarctica", the Associate Ministe

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Minister of Fisheries, Hon John Luxton, said this afternoon that any fishing boat which was fishing illegally could be confiscated, along with its fish catch and even other assets of registered own

Minister of Fisheries, Hon John Luxton, said today that he will be taking a paper to Cabinet next Tuesday considering officials advice on what could be done to make progress with Maori Customary fi

Associate Health Minister Hon Tuariki Delamere said today that, contrary to a grossly misleading New Zealand Herald headline, the Government's policy of free doctors' visits for children under six

The Minister of Agriculture, Lockwood Smith, today praised the efforts of farmers, Federated Farmers and the local community for the way they had pulled together to cope with the effects of the dro