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Town halls, war memorials and other community landmarks across the country will be renovated thanks to grants totalling just under $12.4 million from the Provincial Growth Fund.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Regional Economic Development

Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced two new diplomatic appointments.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister
  • Foreign Affairs

The Minister of Conservation Minister, Eugenie Sage, today presented Aotearoa New Zealand’s most prestigious conservation award, the Loder Cup, to the 2020 winner Graeme Atkins while in Gisborne/Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa.

  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation

The Government is investing in a new, whānau-centred early intervention prototype designed to strengthen families and improve the safety and wellbeing of children.

  • Hon Tracey Martin
  • Children

Parliament is leading by example by taking action to cut its carbon footprint by installing solar and improving energy efficiency, the Minister for Climate Change, James Shaw said today.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

The Minister for Pacific Peoples, Aupito William Sio says the 2020 Tuvalu Language Week theme of “Fakatili Te Kiloga Fou” which means “Navigating the changing environment” is a call on all Pacific peoples to be strong and resilient in the face of COVID-19.

  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • Pacific Peoples

The Government is welcoming today’s announcement that the West Indies and Pakistan cricket teams will tour New Zealand this summer. 

  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Sport and Recreation

Northland’s indigenous tree canopy is set to grow for the benefit of mana whenua and the wider community thanks to nearly $2 million in One Billion Trees funding, Forestry Minister Shane Jones announced today.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Forestry

The Government has delivered a new hospital for Greymouth and is starting work on a much needed new health centre in Westport, ensuring local communities will benefit from better access to high quality integrated health services.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Peeni Henare
  • Prime Minister
  • Health

A West Coast distillery will benefit from a Provincial Growth Fund investment that will enable it to expand its operations and create jobs in the town of Reefton, Rural Communities Minister Damien O’Connor and Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones have announced.

  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Regional Economic Development
  • Rural Communities

Primary sector exports and jobs are up again, demonstrating the sector’s underlying strength amid the COVID-19 global pandemic and US-China trade war, and supporting New Zealand’s economic recovery.

  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Hon Damien O’Connor
  • Agriculture
  • Finance

Schools across Aotearoa New Zealand will be supported by the Government to upgrade to run on clean energy, the Minister for Climate Change James Shaw announced today.

  • Hon James Shaw
  • Climate Change

New training and tools for digital commerce will give small businesses, especially in the tourism sector, the support they need to adapt and innovate in a COVID world. Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis and Small Business Minister Stuart Nash have announced details of how $20 million digital capability funding set aside earlier this year will be allocated.

  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Small Business
  • Tourism

The Department of Conservation (DOC) is investing $1.4 million to develop new predator lures that would be game-changers for trapping and surveillance towards a predator-free Aotearoa, the Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage, announced in Christchurch today.

  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation

Supporting new and creative Pacific education practices as part of our COVID-19 response and recovery is the focus of a new $28.5 million Pacific Education Innovation Fund announced today by Associate Minister of Education Jenny Salesa.

  • Hon Jenny Salesa
  • Education

Eligibility criteria for the COVID-19 Leave Support Scheme is expanding to support more workers say Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Andrew Little and Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni.

  • Hon Andrew Little
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Social Development
  • Workplace Relations and Safety

The Government is putting in place a range of immigration policy changes to help fill labour shortages in key industries while ensuring New Zealanders, who have lost jobs due to COVID-19, have the chance to find new employment.

  • Hon Kris Faafoi
  • Immigration

The Government has established class exceptions for border entry for a limited number of veterinarians, deep sea fishing crew, as well as agricultural and horticultural machinery operators.

  • Hon Kris Faafoi
  • Immigration

The Crown will not appeal the Court of Appeal decision in the Dodds v Southern Response case, Grant Robertson announced today.

  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Hon Dr Megan Woods
  • Earthquake Commission
  • Greater Christchurch Regeneration

The Provincial Growth Fund is investing nearly $30 million in a diverse range of projects that will create immediate and long-term jobs and lift economic and social outcomes for Northland and its people.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Deputy Prime Minister
  • Regional Economic Development

The Coalition Government has committed to invest $27 million in COVID-19 vaccine development through the global COVAX Facility, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced today.

  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Deputy Prime Minister
  • Foreign Affairs

The Government will provide up to $1.69 million through the One Billion Trees programme to Māori landowners to make their whenua more productive through the planting of forests, both native and exotic, and improve economic and environmental outcomes, Forestry Minister Shane Jones has announced.

  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Forestry

People planning to head outdoors now have a resource that lets them know how accessible an area is for people with varying levels of mobility, Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage announced today.

  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation

One of the most significant battle sites of the 1860s Land Wars will receive $2.96 million from the Provincial Growth Fund to improve the site and help tell the New Zealand story to visitors, Māori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta and Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones have announced.

  • Hon Nanaia Mahuta
  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Māori Development
  • Regional Economic Development