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"On Monday this week the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus an important resolution put forward by New Zealand which will change the way in which international cooperation on ocea

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"How will the Crown's ownership and purchase interests in science and technology evolve as private investment in R & D expands".

  • Simon Upton
  • Conservation

"The Environmental Risk Management Authority's decision to reassess controls on genetically modified salmon is evidence that the Hazardous substances and New Organisms Act is working properly", Env

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Associate Foreign Minister, Rt Hon Simon Upton, today applauded the pioneering research completed this week by the New Zealand led Cape Roberts Project in Antarctica.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

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

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

New Zealand's next Ambassador to Spain will be career diplomat Christine Bogle, Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton announced today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

New Zealand will contribute $150,000 to Red Cross flood relief work in central Vietnam, Acting Foreign Minister, Hon Simon Upton, announced today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Hon Simon Upton welcomed new controls against illegal fishing for toothfish in the Southern Ocean.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Hon Simon Upton welcomed new controls against illegal fishing for toothfish in the Southern Ocean.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

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

State Services Minister, Simon Upton, reminded New Zealanders today that the State Sector in New Zealand was looking at a burst of almost

  • Simon Upton
  • State Services

The State Services Minister, Hon Simon Upton, today announced the Government's intention to introduce a Crown Entities Bill next year.

  • Simon Upton
  • State Services

A story in Monday morning's Dominion caused upton-on-line to spill his latte and choke on his muffin.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Yesterday's TNVZ-Colmar Brunton shows the centre-right drawing abreast of the centre-left. Labour and the Alliance had 43.5%, while National and ACT sit on 44%.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Government has promulgated new regulations which will give local bodies the authority to impose infringement fees on people breaching the provisions of the Resource Management Act," Environment

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

State Services Minister, Simon Upton, condemned Labour deputy leader Michael Cullen's willingness to threaten public servants as "outrageous".

  • Simon Upton
  • State Services

We've heard a lot in recent times about the recently reinvigorated activities of the "Brain Drain".

  • Simon Upton
  • Conservation

The Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act (HSNO) Amendment Bill has had its second reading in Parliament last week and has now been referred to the Transport and Environment Select Committee f

  • Simon Upton
  • Research, Science and Technology

The correct answer for yesterday's competition was, of course, Wellington's BNZ tower. It took eleven years to build.

  • Simon Upton
  • Crown Research Institutes

"Helen Clark's plans to create an Ethnic Affairs portfolio shows yet again her party's instinct to meet every perceived problem in society with an expansion in  central control, "State Service

  • Simon Upton
  • State Services

 Seventeen training and business development grants to support private sector development in the Pacific Islands were announced today by Associate Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Upton.

  • Simon Upton
  • Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Wellington Town Hall

I want to focus my discussion on biodiversity - and its relationship to sustainable land management.

  • Simon Upton
  • Conservation

Every election is, of course, of vital interest to politicians and those who earn their living either helping or hindering them.

  • Simon Upton
  • Crown Research Institutes