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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.

Maori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia was shocked to discover that the National Party seems to have made Murray McCully the new Maori Affairs spokesperson.

Associate Minister of Maori Affairs Tariana Turia saluted her colleague Sandra Lee today, following Ms Lee’s announcement that she will not seek re-election to Parliament.

Maori history is full of stories of mana wahine. Papatuanuku is the mother of our atua, and through them, all of creation. Hine Ahu One is the female element, found in the earth, from whom all human beings were born.

Cabinet Minister Sandra Lee today confirmed rumours that she has been consulting family and Auckland Central electorate supporters this week on the possibility she may retire from Parliament.

I am a descendant of the iwi of the Whanganui River. The whakapapa, traditions and history of the many whanau and hapu, up and down the river, are so closely intertwined that we are known as ‘te Taura Whiri a Hinengakau’.

Associate Minister of Maori Affairs Sandra Lee has paid tribute today to the longest serving Maori language commissioner, Mataatua Te Arawa kuia Miria Simpson, who died in Wellington yesterday.

Speech to Taranaki Dinner for Te Hau Parongo, Shalom Christian Centre, Queen St, Waitara.

The passage of Te Ture Whenua Maori Amendment Bill will improve the ability of Maori to retain, occupy, use, develop and control their own land

Associate Minister of Maori Affairs Sandra Lee joined has joined others gathered at Wellington's Pipitea Marae today to greet the Dalai Lama of Tibet at the start of his New Zealand visit.

Maori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia welcomes the announcement that Wayne Walden is to assist the Maori Television Service.

Maori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia has welcomed the announcement of the long awaited reform of the tax rules on organisations managing Maori assets held in communal ownership.

The government will seek to protect key blocks of Maori-owned native forest in the South Island for conservation, under a Budget 2002 policy announced today.

Maori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia and Associate Maori Affairs Minister Tariana Turia say that solid progress has been made on whanau, hapu, iwi and Maori community development.

Maori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia and Associate Housing Minister Tariana Turia said major new funding initiatives in Budget 2002 will help more whanau into appropriate housing.

Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia says the increase in primary health care funding provides significant opportunity to improve the health of whanau.

Associate Education Minister Parekura Horomia says the government is continuing its commitment to investing in education for Maori in this year's budget, as well as building in previously allocated funding, which is already resulting in positive change.

Maori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia said today he was delighted Wayne Brown has agreed to remain on the board of the Maori Television Service for another month.

Speech Notes for Hon Sandra Lee to open the "Reclaiming our Natural Heritage" exhibition, Archives New Zealand, 10 Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, Wellington.

Maori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia said today that the Maori Television Service board had acted appropriately in promptly suspending and then dismissing its chief executive.

Gregory Fortuin is somebody who was able to make a positive difference in a very difficult job as Race Relations Conciliator

The Minister of Maori Affairs and Associate Minister of Fisheries, Hon. Parekura Horomia, today tabled the ninth annual report of the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission (Te Ohu Kai Moana) in Parliament.

Mäori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia is keen to encourage other asthma sufferers to develop a management plan and learn to use medication properly.