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Prime Minister Jenny Shipley and Conservation Minister Nick Smith today launched National's Conservation and Environment Policy Statement at Arahura on the West Coast, with four major policy packag

The Government is making sure that Pacific Islands peoples in New Zealand have the skills to do well in this country.

Over 160 detailed proposals have been received from organisations interested in running the Government's new Business Development Programme, which is set to kick off early next year.

"A new comprehensive Round of trade negotiations in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is now clearly in sight," Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said on his return to New Zealand today.

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith will spend today and tomorrow in Hong Kong, China, for an informal ministerial meeting of certain World Trade Organisation (WTO) members.

The Labour Party should follow the lead of Tony Blair's New Labour Party and slay the high tax dragon when it meets in conference this weekend, State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall said toda

Labour will cut out ordinary New Zealanders from investing in government owned businesses, State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall said today.

A lower drinking age and seven-day a week liquor sales are amongst the key changes in the Sale of Liquor Amendment Bill.

Corrections Minister, Nick Smith, today launched an ambitious Government plan to get prison inmates doing real work.

Labour handwringing about poverty at its conference would not hide the fact it has no policy to deal with it, Associate Treasurer Bill English said today.

Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control, David Carter, today accused Native Forest Action of trivialising proposals to sustainably harvest beech timber on the West Coast.

The Government is making sure that Pacific Islands peoples in New Zealand have the skills to do well in this country.

Associate Health Minister, Hon Tuariki Delamere, has been elected to chair the main session at the 12th Commonwealth Ministers' conference being held in Barbados.

The movement of trained health professionals from developing countries to developed countries was one of the issues discussed at the principal session of the 12th Commonwealth Health Ministers' con

Today Meat NZ presented its future industry plans to Government Ministers.

Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen arrives in New Zealand today for a four-day visit, Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton said today.

A new monument to members of the Royal Navy who died in the Battle of Rangiriri will be unveiled and dedicated on Friday morning (Nov 20 at 11am) the 135th anniversary of the engagement.

The Minister of Internal Affairs, Jack Elder, has reiterated that Fire Service Commission Chairman, Roger Estall, took no part in the review of the Police Service.

"The public statements of Labour and ACT make it clear that they intend to vote against tax cuts for up to 600,000 low and middle income super savers," Treasurer Bill Birch said in Parliament this

Quality courses for students delivered by financially and educationally sound providers are at the heart of the Government's tertiary education White Paper released today.

Quality courses for students delivered by financially and educationally sound providers are at the heart of the Government's tertiary education White Paper released today.

Tertiary Education Review White Paper

The Challenge Ahead for Tertiary Education

New Zealand's tertiary education system will face important challenges in the years ahead:

As the public offer of shares in Capital Properties New Zealand closed at 5.00pm today, State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall said there had been a strong response from New Zealanders to the

With two days remaining until the closing date for public comment on Timberlands West Coast's sustainable beech management plans, State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall today released papers a