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The law changes will make student loans interest free and expand the Working for Families package. MP for Te Tai Tonga Hon Mahara Okeroa said more than 400,000 students and former students with loans, and another 160,000 working families will benefit from the change, which takes effect on 1 April.

  • Mahara Okeroa
  • Social Development and Employment

A brighter future for Canterbury’s iconic lake, Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere has been secured with today’s signing of the first joint management plan between the Department of Conservation and iwi.

  • Mahara Okeroa
  • Conservation

Te Ara is an oppurtunity to present ourselves to the international community, to capture the imaginations of people in very different countries and focus them on what New Zealand has to offer in terms of hertiage, culture, environments, products and technical expertise

  • Mahara Okeroa
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage

Over 70,000 school students in Canterbury are getting vaccinated to guard against the epidemic B strain of meningococcal disease.

  • Mahara Okeroa
  • State