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Communications Minister Paul Swain adresses the TUANZ Telecommunications Day and introduces the Telecommunications Commissioner Douglas Webb.

New Zealand has condemned the deaths of 15 Palestinians including 8 children

Conservation Minister Sandra Lee today announced the Nature Heritage Fund has purchased 1.8 hectares of land as an addition to the Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve.

The Nature Heritage Fund has secured an area of outstanding ecological diversity at Hickory Bay, Banks Peninsula, as public conservation land, Conservation Minister Sandra Lee announced today.

We need to manage water better. And that is my challenge to you - as scientists, planners, advisers, industry representatives and users.

Defence Minister Mark Burton confirmed today that he has asked the Chief of Defence Force to proceed with implementing the proposed joint use of RNZAF Woodbourne’s aviation training facility with the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology.

The almost completed new Ruatoria courthouse and Heartland Services Centre was burnt to the ground last night by fire, Courts Minister Matt Robson says.

One of the last strongholds of several native plant communities unique to Southland, a 60 hectare peatland property at Dunearn, has been purchased by the Nature Heritage Fund, Conservation Minister Sandra Lee announced today.

Jim Anderton speech.
Opening of new Customs Inspection Base
20 Brigade Rd, Airport Oaks, Mangere
Te Mana Arai House

Good morning

Thank you for the opportunity to open the GOVIS conference.

It is a great honour for me to be here with so many of my Australian colleagues and with so much talent and intellectual firepower.

It is a pleasure to be back at a Navcon conference, surrounded by so much talent, so much intellectual firepower. A year ago at Te Papa, I closed the first Learning@schools conference open to all teachers.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today.

Your conference is a landmark event and one that I am very pleased to have the opportunity to open.

I am pleased to be here to represent the Government this evening at the launch of this significant national education partnership programme with Maori.

Justice Minister Phil Goff outlines what the Governement is doing and is going to do for victims of crime

It is important to have an informed debate about water management, Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton says.

The reality of climate change is the biggest threat we face to New Zealand agriculture, Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton said.

Education Minister Trevor Mallard has welcomed the decision by secondary teachers to enter into alternative dispute resolution as a way of breaking the impasse in the collective agreement negotiations.

Minister for Economic, Regional and Industry Development Jim Anderton today announced a $30,000 Industry New Zealand grant for economic development in the Thames Valley Region.

The funding comes on top of $88,000 for strategy development in the region and a $75,000 grant for a pilot programme working with language learners and tourism.

Maori Language Week is upon us and provides all in New Zealand with the opportunity to celebrate te reo Maori.

Kua tau mei te Wiki Reo Maori ki runga ki a tatou, me te tuku huarahi ki te katoa o Aotearoa ki te whakanui I te reo Maori.

Answers to 16 questions on forestry policy posed by the New Zealand Institute of Forestry (Wellington section) for a political forum.

A High Court Judge says the Government's new Sentencing and Parole laws will `must inevitably pull sentencing levels up'

Education Minister Trevor Mallard has received a report that shows there are practical and realistic ways to reduce workload associated with the implementation of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement.