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Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford says there will be less chance the lights will go out in a "dry year" when ECNZ is split into three generating companies.

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Over 2,000 organisations already using Community Wage workers in just 10 weeks

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

CER Trade Ministers Hon Tim Fischer and Hon Lockwood Smith will hold their annual talks in Wellington on Thursday 17 December 1998.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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

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

The three-way split of ECNZ will proceed and be completed by the end of March next year securing lower electricity prices for New Zealand households and businesses and long-term benefits for the en

  • Tony Ryall
  • ECNZ Shareholding Minister

Announcements made today by the Towards 2000 Taskforce "set the scene for a high-impact, high-value Millennium programme," according to the Chair of the New Zealand 2000 Team of Ministers, Murray M

  • Murray McCully
  • Tourism

Church leaders are desperately trying to distance themselves from the concept of a separate Maori Parliament, despite last week saying it was Church policy, said the Hon Roger Sowry Minister of Soc

  • Roger Sowry
  • Social Services, Work and Income

The Personal Property Securities Bill will bring much greater clarity, certainty and predicability to the laws about lending and borrowing money, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford says.

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Korea has agreed to allow imports of New Zealand cherries, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith announced today after arriving back from Korea on Saturday.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

Minister of Health Bill English said New Zealanders' tendency to take a casual approach towards cooking over Christmas and the summer holidays could put people at risk of food poisoning.

  • Bill English
  • Health

State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall today provided further detail of the sales process for the Waikaremoana hydro scheme.

  • Tony Ryall
  • State Owned Enterprises

The Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control, Hon David Carter, today said Labour MP Jill Pettis had again shown her ignorance regarding the public comment process on the

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

Immigration Minister, Hon Tuariki Delamere, said today he had yesterday withdrawn the special direction given to the convicted German fraudster Ralf Simon that would have allowed Mr Simon to enter

  • John Delamare
  • Immigration

Defence Minister Max Bradford says Labour leader Helen Clark's paranoia is showing.

  • Max Bradford
  • Defence

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

  • Nick Smith
  • Corrections

The Government is cutting the student loan interest rate in line with the downward trend in market rates - benefiting all those with a student loan, both existing and former tertiary students.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education

In the first two months since the Community Wage was introduced only 81 people have had their payments reduced or suspended, out of the total of more than 160,000 on the Community Wage, Associate W

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

"New Zealanders can be confident that APEC 99 will be well attended by world leaders, with confirmation from United States President Bill Clinton this week that he will be here," Prime Minister Jen

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

"Team NZ will have the whole country behind them as they show the rest of the world how New Zealanders can succeed," Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today at the handover of Team NZ America's Cup

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

Minister for Food, Fibre Biosecurity and Border Control, Hon John Luxton, today said today's announcement by the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) not to allow imports of New Zealand

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

State Services Minister, Simon Upton, today expressed concern at Labour leader Helen Clark's willingness to level criticism at public servants who are unable to reply.

  • Simon Upton
  • State Services

Foreign Minister Don McKinnon departs New Zealand on Sunday for a two-day visit to Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby and Bougainville.

  • Don McKinnon
  • Foreign Affairs and Trade

"Secondary school teachers will end the school year today (Friday) without a pay increase," Education Minister Wyatt Creech said.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education

Hon Marie Hasler, the Minister of Cultural Affairs, today announced the reappointment of Sir Ronald Trotter as Chair of the Board of the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa.

  • Marie Hasler
  • Cultural Affairs