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Good morning everyone.

I want to start by thanking Kirk and his Business New Zealand team for the invitation.

E ngā iwi e pae nei

Ki runga o Waitangi

Karanga mai, mihi mai

Tēnei te whakarongo atu nei ki ngā kupu kōrero

Ngā aituā  o te tau kua hipa

Koutou e Kingi, e Koro

Koutou katoa, haere atu rā

Thank you, Professor Hayne (Vice Chancellor, University of Otago), for your kind introduction.

Thank you for your interest and attendance at the 2019 National Yearling Sales.

Thank you for the invitation to be here. It is a great privilege to be welcomed to Ratana again.

Delivered at the United Nations at Geneva, 21 January 2019 at 9.00am local time and 9.00pm New Zealand time

Georgetown Address, in partnership with the Center for Australian, New Zealand & Pacific Studies - Georgetown University and the NZ Embassy.

• Ni Men Hao Ambassadors, my fellow MPs, Mayors, Good evening everyone and welcome to our visitors to New Zealand.

Mr President, tena koe. E nga rangatira, tena koutou.

Speech to Amnesty International event to mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on World Human Rights Day.

Opening Remarks at the Thoroughbred Racing Club Conference and Annual General Meeting

Thank you very much for coming today.

Welcome to those here today from our neighbouring Governments across the Pacific.

Good morning,

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tatou, katoa.

Kia ora tatou katou. Warm Pacific greetings to you all.

Morena koutou and thank you to the conference organisers and our hosts Waikato-Tainui for the opportunity to speak today.

Speech at the Institute of International and European Affairs.

Next Monday is the 8th anniversary of the dreadful tragedy at Pike River Coal Mine. Two men escaped with their lives. 29 others never came home.

Talofa lava, Kia Orana tatou katoatoa, malo e lelei, fakalofalahi atu, Malo ni, Taloha ni, Ni Sa bula vinaka, Warm Pacific greetings to one and all.

Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.

As you all know, this week is a momentous one for New Zealand-Irish relations. Because at the end of this week, we will finally determine who has the best rugby team in world.

I am delighted to be here at the Royal Academy tonight, not least to have the opportunity to experience the many exceptional works from around Oceania in this beautiful setting.

Today the Carillon and Wellington’s ‘roaring chorus’ has recaptured the wave of spontaneous jubilation and hope which swept New Zealand when news of the Armistice broke.

For many of you living here in Sweden it must seem New Zealand is a country at the very end of the earth.