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Let me first thank all the new unionists and members in the room.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • Workplace Relations and Safety

Te whare e tu nei

Te marae e takoto ana

Tena korua

E nga mate maha

Haere, haere, haere

Nga tangata whenua o tēnei rohe, o Te Whanganui-a-Tara tēnei ra te mihi

Tatou nga kanohi ora e hui mai ana

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

Ladies and gentlemen, NZCTU President Richard Wagstaff, members of respective unions – thank you for the invitation to speak to you today.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister

"Let’s start by acknowledging that it has been a huge year."

Police Association Annual Conference

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Police

Thank you for the opportunity to be here to present certificates to the 16 graduates who have completed a beekeeping course delivered by the Howard League.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister

As the Minister for ACC I thank you all for the work that you do supporting New Zealanders in their literally most vulnerable moments.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC

Today’s topic, “trends and opportunities for the New Zealand economy,” is certainly one getting a great deal of commentary at the moment.

  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Finance

I would really like to acknowledge Bishop Waitohiariki Quayle on her recent ordination as the first Anglican Māori Woman Bishop, first Indigenous Woman Bishop. He wāhine hūmārie.

  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Māori Development

It is a pleasure to see you all here today.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister

I thought I would use the opportunity to give you a sense of the direction of travel across my portfolios and how some of that work intersects with your interests.

  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Māori Development

I’m delighted to have this opportunity to address the NZEI conference, the first opportunity I’ve had to do so since I became Minister of Education almost two years ago.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

Chair, New Zealand commends this mid-term review of the Samoa Pathways. Let me convey to you the picture that I see as we conduct this review.
There is an unprecedented, man-made storm coming our way. Our youth can see the dark clouds gather at the outer limits of the horizons. We must paddle our canoe to safety and we must do it quickly. We must all paddle in the same direction or we’ll be caught by the storm and die.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Speech at Dargaville High School to mark the opening of first house built by the school's Trade Academy.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister

We acknowledge that the subject of this event can be highly sensitive, and we understand and respect the reasons why this can be a delicate issue for people in our region. Ideally, countries of the world would be rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions to ensure that people do not need to move because of climate change.

In the Pacific, climate change-related mobility is, so far, limited to internal movements, such as people moving inland away from rising sea levels and coastal hazards. That’s what we would expect, given the passionate desire of Pacific peoples to not be forced to leave their homes, their communities, their countries, and their land and sea.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

It is a pleasure to be here at this important gathering of Pacific public sector leaders.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Foreign Affairs

Ko Ranginui ki runga,

Ranginui is the sky father above

Ko Papatuanuku ki raro

Papatuanuku is the earth mother below

Ko nga Atua tamariki katoa kei waenganui

Their many god children between

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Climate Change

Kia ora koutou katoa

I was born in the 1980s, the decade of big hair, big shoulders and big reforms.

A decade where New Zealand went through a period of rapid privatisation and economic liberalisation.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

I wish to extend thanks to the organisers of today’s High Level Meeting.

In 2018, New Zealand’s Defence Assessment identified climate change is one of the most significant security threats of our time. The Pacific Island Forum’s Boe Declaration expands on this definition.

New Zealand is pleased that the links between climate change and security are increasingly being recognised, including through the good work of this Group of Friends. We add our voice to Germany and others to call on all big industrial nations to pick up the pace.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

I greet you in te reo Māori, language of the tangata whenua, or first people, of Aotearoa New Zealand.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

E ngā mana, e ngā reo Prestigious people, speakers of note
E ngā rangatira mā Chiefly leaders
Tēna koutou kātoa Greetings to you all

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

 

E mihi ana ki te rangi

E mihi ana ki te whenua

E mihi ana ki ngā maunga

  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Environment

Excellences, colleagues, members of the diplomatic corps, ladies and gentlemen, kia ora tatou katoa, warm Pacific greetings to one and all.

Thank you for this opportunity to speak today.

We know that climate change is the single biggest threat to the livelihoods and wellbeing of the peoples of the Pacific and there is an urgent, immediate, and unprecedented need for greater and more ambitions action. And in my privileged position as Minister for Pacific Peoples, as I listen to my elders, the two, three, that have spoken earlier and as I get to engage with our Pacific leaders right across the Pacific region – we’re leading.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

Introductory remarks as Chair

This is an important and timely meeting. Here in New York the climate conversation has shifted from positions and negotiations, to action and ambition. The discussion about science and impacts and commitments is no longer controversial. Most of the world has now turned to action. Many of us here have set our sights on 1.5 degrees, a goal which resonates so strongly in the Pacific region.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

It is a privilege to be here today at the inaugural ministerial meeting of the Group of Friends of the Victims of Terrorism. And I’d like to convey our warm thanks to the governments of Afghanistan and Spain for their leadership on this important issue.

The 15th of March 2019 is forever etched into the psyche of our peoples. New Zealand experienced its worst ever terrorist attack in which 51 individuals were killed – men, women and children – and dozens more injured in attacks against our Muslim community when they were worshipping in two mosques in the city of Christchurch.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples