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The Minister of Cultural Affairs, Hon Simon Upton, confirmed today that there has been a request for further funding from the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

New Zealand's tourism industry is most at risk from the economic threat posed by the potential introduction of new species of disease carrying mosquitoes according to a recent report, Minister for

The Government will provide an additional humanitarian contribution of NZ$250,000 to help feed starving children and other vulnerable groups in North Korea, Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs an

Regulations which make it lawful
to possess and spread material containing rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD) are

Faced with the reality that the illegally introduced RCD virus is clearly established in the South Island, the Government will move to legalise its ongoing spread, Hon Simon Upton, announced today.

The Minister for Biosecurity, Hon.

The Minister for the Environment, Simon Upton, warned today that the commitment to better environmental outcomes could well be lost sight of because of an increasingly restive debate about ineffici

Biosecurity Minister Simon Upton has moved to clarify the purpose behind the containment measures MAF is deploying in RCD affected areas of the South Island.

The latest information on New Zealand's approach to the risk of climate change is now available.

A new education service and web site on global issues is being launched next Tuesday (5 August) by Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Upton.

Nineteen training and business development grants to support private sector development in the Pacific Islands have been announced today by Associate Foreign Minister Simon Upton.

Environment Minister Simon Upton today announced details of successful New Zealand pilot studies of a groundbreaking new technology that can destroy persistent organochlorine chemicals such as diox

The Minister for the Environment, Hon Simon Upton, has written today to Sue James, Mayor of the Far North District Council, expressing his concern about the Far North Proposed District Plan.

Agricultural economist John Askwith has been appointed course director for the New Zealand-funded Mekong Institute in Thailand, Associate Foreign Minister Simon Upton announced today.

The Minister for the Environment, Hon Simon Upton, is concerned that Macraes Mining Company Ltd is blaming planning delays for the deferral of their expansion plans.

The Minister for the Environment and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hon Simon Upton, has called for developed country Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change to meet

"ACT's 'support' for the referendum on retirement savings is the most exquisite piece of Clayton's support I have ever seen," the Environment Minister, Simon Upton, said today.

Any attempt by farmers to take matters into their own hands and smuggle RCD into the country would be a terrible mistake, the Minister for Biosecurity, Hon Simon Upton said today.

Today's decision on the application to import rabbit calicivirus as a control for feral rabbits will necessitate a concerted effort on the part of the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment to e

Today's decision on the application to import rabbit calicivirus as a control for feral rabbits will necessitate a concerted effort on the part of the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment to e

Environment Minister Simon Upton has challenged Labour's Energy spokesperson Pete Hodgson to spell out just which bit of the European Union's greenhouse gas policy he supports.

Mr Sutton's claims about the RCD response plan are cheap politics of the sort for which he is renowned.

New Zealand will fund a major English language skills project for schoolchildren in one of the poorest areas of South Africa the Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Hon Simon Upton

"Following expressions of grave concern from the New Zealand Government, the Chinese Government has investigated the incident in which apple budstock samples were retrieved from a Chinese delegatio