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Helen Clark's support this morning for the use of government-subsidised export credits is inconsistent with New Zealand's international commitments with important trading groups, such as the Cairns

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • International Trade

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that he had approved the major Resource Management Act (RMA) consents for the new Clifford Bay Port development proposed by Tranz Rail.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Labour's promise of export guarantees and export credit financing schemes was a last-ditch effort to curry favour with business, Treasurer Bill English said today.

  • Bill English
  • Treasurer

Jim Sutton's claim that National's support in South Canterbury is collapsing has been rubbished by Food and Fibre Minister John Luxton, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith and Associate Food and Fibre Mi

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

Jim Sutton's claim that National's support in South Canterbury is collapsing has been rubbished by Food and Fibre Minister John Luxton, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith and Associate Food and Fibre Mi

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • International Trade

Jim Sutton's claim that National's support in South Canterbury is collapsing has been rubbished by Food and Fibre Minister John Luxton, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith and Associate Food and Fibre Mi

  • John Luxton
  • Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control

Food and Fibre Minister John Luxton said today that the Green's Agricultural policy released today reflected their extreme views and showed how out of touch they were with the agricultural sector.

  • John Luxton
  • Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control

New Zealand has recently had a recession and it has caused a great deal of uncertainty among New Zealanders about their future prospects.

  • Bill English
  • Treasurer

Thank you for the opportunity to talk to you today. After 27 years in Parliament, I stand down at this election.

  • Doug Graham
  • Attorney-General

"New figures showing a dramatic drop in the number of infant deaths and cot deaths are encouraging, but National is committed to continuing to do more to turn other child health statistics around,"

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Health

Mrs Claire Elder, wife of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Jack Elder, died in Auckland yesterday after a long battle with cancer. She was 49.

  • Jack Elder
  • Internal Affairs

ACC policy has been declared a "line in the sand election issue" by Accident Insurance Minister Murray McCully, releasing the National Party's ACC policy today.

  • Murray McCully
  • Accident Insurance

Annette King continues to repeat Labour's lies about its health budget, Treasurer Bill English said today.

  • Bill English
  • Treasurer

The Alliance's budget is so mickey mouse it should carry a health warning, Treasurer Bill English said today.

  • Bill English
  • Treasurer

Student debt would skyrocket under Labour's blank cheque policy on student loans, while the ability of students to repay debt would be dramatically reduced under a high tax centre-left government,

  • Max Bradford
  • Tertiary Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today officially opened New Zealand's sixteenth and largest mainland marine reserve, Te Tapuwae o Rongokako in a dawn ceremony at the reserve, sixteen kilometres no

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Minister of Women's Affairs Georgina te Heuheu today said she had been surprised by the effective dumping of two high profile and effective women Members of Parliament recently.

  • Georgina te Heuheu
  • Women's Affairs

New Zealand households are benefiting from a reduction in grocery prices in real terms over the past 15 years, due to National's good economic management, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today ou

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith has warmly welcomed Don McKinnon's appointment as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • International Trade

Don McKinnon's appointment as Secretary General of the Commonwealth is an honour for New Zealand and for Don McKinnon personally, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

"Milk will run down the drains again in the Waikato, and the business sector will be held to ransom, if Labour repeals the ECA," Food and Fibre Minister John Luxton warned a Waikato business audien

  • John Luxton
  • Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control

Education Minister Nick Smith, during a visit to Paula's Preschool in Nelson, today launched a new resource that will help improve the quality of early childhood education throughout the country.

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Minister of Women's Affairs Georgina te Heuheu is impressed at the influence "Duffy books" is having on the development of our children.

  • Georgina te Heuheu
  • Women's Affairs

"A prediction: within a week Labour's Finance Spokesman, Dr Michael Cullen, will sitting in First Class, sipping champagne, winging his way to Britain to follow up on Bob Harvey's ‘fact finding m

  • Tony Ryall
  • Justice