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"My Government intends to work with the whole community to strengthen families and build a stronger New Zealand," Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is both a mirror of and a challenge to our common humanity," Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today in a keynote address to mark the 50th Anniversary of

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

Foreign Minister Don McKinnon this morning expressed his shock at news that New Zealander Stanley Shaw and his three British colleagues have apparently been murdered by their kidnappers.

  • Don McKinnon
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

Today's NZ Herald Digipoll survey showing almost three out of five New Zealanders aged 18-39 oppose Labour's tax hike comes a day after a leading economist said a Labour-Alliance government would s

  • Tony Ryall
  • Youth Affairs

Labour's claims about the numbers of students with unprocessed Work and Income New Zealand applications are wildly exaggerated.

  • Roger Sowry
  • Social Services, Work and Income

YEAR IN REVIEW 1998

Policies and Progress

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley

9 December 1998

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

"It comes as no surprise to me that Native Forest Action's political agenda has been exposed and it is not a "supposedly neutral lobby group," says Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity a

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control

Hon John Luxton, Minister in Charge of Land Information New Zealand, today announced that the Auckland Area Health Board Leaseholders Association had been successful with their bid of $5 million fo

  • John Luxton
  • Land Information

"The Working Party set up to look into schooling in Rotorua is now ready to get down to business," Education Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education

Defence Minister Max Bradford today announced the Governor-General has approved the appointment of the Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice-Marshal C W (Carey) Adamson, AFC, to replace Lieutenant General A

  • Bill English
  • Defence

Immigration Minister, Hon Tuariki Delamere, said today that, after careful consideration of all the circumstances, he had decided not to disturb the decision of the Court of Appeal concerning the G

  • John Delamare
  • Immigration

Pacific Island Affairs Minister Hon Tuariki Delamere today rejected the 'entirely negative' comments of Labour's social welfare spokesman, Steve Maharey, concerning the Government's Family Start in

  • John Delamare
  • Pacific Island Affairs

Breaking cycles of disadvantage is the key purpose of the new Waipareira-Pasifika Family Start programme, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

Korea's reforms have put it on the verge of economic recovery without recourse to New Zealand's US$100 million loan offer, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said today.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • International Trade

The Government had approved a $20 million programme to provide better facilities for people involved in running schools around the country, Education Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education

Korea's reforms have put it on the verge of economic recovery without recourse to New Zealand's US$100 million loan offer, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said today.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

Health Minister Bill English today released an interim report into the options for development of hospital services for Wellington.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Health Minister Bill English said today Family Start was a practical and effective programme to tackle issues around poverty.

  • Bill English
  • Health

Associate Minister of Justice Tony Ryall said today that the Motor Vehicle Dealers Bill will not now commence on May 1st 1999.

  • Tony Ryall
  • Associate Minister of Justice

"Drug trafficking is a more serious problem for New Zealand than most people realise," says the Minister responsible for the day to day operations of Customs, Hon David Carter.

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control

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

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Minister of Internal Affairs, Jack Elder, has paid tribute to the thousands of New Zealanders who involve themselves in voluntary work.

  • Jack Elder
  • Internal Affairs

The Lottery Grants Board will continue to fund high performance sport into the new millennium, the Board Chairperson and Minister of Internal Affairs, Jack Elder announced today.

  • Jack Elder
  • Internal Affairs

Contrary to the denials in the House the Labour Party has actively tried to infiltrate the public service by encouraging the release of confidential information, Deputy Prime Minister Wyatt Creech

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education