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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that agreement had been reached with the Historic Places Trust on additional annual funding of $1.8million and a decentralised organisation that wil

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced the surprise arrival of 2 kakapo chicks on Pearl Island, giving the third successive year of success for the Kakapo Recovery Programme.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that New Zealand sea lions in the sub-antarctic ocean do not appear to be showing any symptoms of last year's mystery illness and that a new net esc

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today authorised the capture of Rainbow Lorikeets in Auckland saying they posed a serious threat to New Zealand's native birds like the tui and kakariki, as well as

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Education Minister Nick Smith today launched the education blueprint for health and physical education saying the document had greater potential to improve the health of New Zealanders than hundred

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  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced a landmark conservation achievement at Cape Brett on Northland's East Coast.

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today said that the agreement with Te Rawhiti 3B2 has been delayed.

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  • Conservation

Education Minister Nick Smith today visited Panguru in Northland and announced that Panguru Area School would be rebuilt on higher land as quickly as possible to ensure the education of the pupils

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  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today launched the Department of Conservation 's weed strategy on Motutapu Island, with sobering facts and figures about the threats of these space invaders.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today opened the refurbished 144 year old Camphouse on Mt Egmont/Taranaki which he said would rate not only as the oldest but the most interesting of DoC's 800 huts

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith buried rumours that DoC had ever suggested it might claim ownership of logs washed onto private land in the Northland floods and said flood victims were most welcom

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  • Conservation

Corrections Minister Nick Smith today announced the guidelines that will be used to choose the new regional prison site in Northland.

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  • Corrections

Corrections Minister Nick Smith today released the first six month results of inmate drug testing showing good progress in reducing prison drug use.

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  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced the decision to proceed with the Parininihi Marine reserve proposal but has reduced the size of the reserve in response to submissions from fishing

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  • Conservation

Associate Minister of Social Services Nick Smith today announced the transfer of the remaining vocational services from the Community Funding Agency (CFA) to Work and Income New Zealand (WINZ) from

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  • Associate Minister of Social Welfare

Associate Social Services Minister Nick Smith said today that New Zealand officials will work with their British counterparts on areas of joint action concerning the welfare of former child migrant

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  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

Corrections Minister Nick Smith is appalled at the number of offences being committed and organised by inmates from prison phones in New Zealand and wants to import technology used in Australia tha

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  • Corrections

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today welcomed the announcement of the formal World Heritage listing of the New Zealand subantarctic islands by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultur

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that the Government would introduce an import prohibition on trout under the Customs and Excise Act 1996, in order to ensure the conservation of tro

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today welcomed the introduction of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Bill to Parliament.

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  • Conservation

Nick Smith, Associate Minister of Social Services launched the first of three Family Start services in New Zealand when he visited Ma Te Whanau Timata Trust Family Start programme in Whangarei toda

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  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

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

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  • Corrections

Corrections Minister Nick Smith today announced plans to install metal detectors in all New Zealand's prisons next year to improve security and safety.

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  • Corrections

Acting Treaty Settlements Ministers Nick Smith today announced that National would not support ACT's Treaty of Waitangi (Final Settlement of Claims) Bill.

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  • Treaty Settlements