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A Government investment in Te Mata Mushroom Holdings Ltd will help create the largest mushroom production centre in the North Island and sustainable fulltime employment for more than 200 people, Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones has announced.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Infrastructure

A new lottery fund worth $40 million has been established to focus on community and social initiatives in response to COVID-19.

  • Hon Tracey Martin
  • Internal Affairs

Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones has today announced funding to support a major housing project in Horowhenua that will help address the district’s housing shortage and a business park to enable growth in the region.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Infrastructure

The Government will help fund the construction of a rail hub in Rangitīkei dedicated to handling and transporting logs from around the lower North Island, Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones has announced.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Infrastructure

Workers whose jobs may be affected by the re-emergence of COVID-19 in Auckland will be supported by a new wage subsidy scheme and a simplified leave scheme.

  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Finance

The Government will invest up to $200 million in a large construction project in central Auckland, that will create up to 750 jobs and provide confidence to the sector, Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones announced today.

  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Finance
  • Infrastructure

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed the General Election will be held on 17 October.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

The Government is taking action to support businesses and protect jobs following today’s decision to extend the existing public health measures across the country to stamp out COVID-19.

  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Finance

Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters today called for National Party and Opposition leader Judith Collins to stop undermining democracy.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister

More Police are being deployed to the frontline to help manage the COVID response, after the graduation today of 56 new officers.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Police

Transitional housing provides much needed support for Taumarunui whānau.

  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Hon Peeni Henare
  • Māori Development
  • Whānau Ora

Following the success of the phase out of single-use plastic shopping bags, the Government now has plans to phase out more single-use and problem plastics to reduce waste and protect the environment announced Associate Minister for the Environment Eugenie Sage.

  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Environment

A commercial and industrial site in Thames-Coromandel will receive $8.2 million to revamp its marine-servicing infrastructure and create new economic development opportunities, Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones has announced.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Infrastructure

After 102 days we have our first cases of Covid-19 outside of a Managed Isolation or Quarantine facility in New Zealand.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

An iwi-Crown approach programme to restore the Raukūmara forest on the East Coast of the North Island and boost employment opportunities for whānau, particularly rangatahi/young people, will receive $34 million funding, Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage has announced.

  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation

Government agencies and partners are working closer together to provide more Māori Housing through the Te MAIHI o te Whare Māori – the Māori and Iwi Housing Innovation Framework for Action (MAIHI).

  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Housing

Site work is soon to begin on Te Ahu a Turanga: Manawatū Tararua Highway, the project to replace the former SH3 route through the Manawatū Gorge, Transport Minister Phil Twyford said today.

  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Transport

The Pacific Islands Forum Economic Ministers Meeting (FEMM) begins today and will focus on the major economic and social impacts of COVID-19 on the Pacific.

  • Fletcher Tabuteau
  • Foreign Affairs

Cabinet has approved a formal apology and ex gratia payment to former soldier George Nepata, announced Defence Minister Ron Mark.

  • Hon Ron Mark
  • Defence

A report undertaken by Ministerial Services into Iain Lees-Galloway’s ministerial expenditure has found no evidence of any inappropriate transactions or spending.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

Managed isolation charges for returnees will come into force from 12.01am Tuesday 11th August, after they passed their last cabinet milestone today, Housing Minister Megan Woods said.

  • Hon Dr Megan Woods
  • Housing

The Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern and the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands Henry Puna have welcomed the completion of phase one in the establishment of a travel bubble between New Zealand and the Cook Island.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

The Government has launched a new online, phone and onsite service to help New Zealanders connect to a range of employment support and products for workers and businesses affected by COVID-19, announced Minister of Education Chris Hipkins and Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Education
  • Social Development

Security guards contracted to the Ministry of Social Development will be paid at least the Living Wage from next month supporting the Government’s commitment towards fair pay and employment conditions, announced Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development