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A new digital platform aims to make it easier for small businesses to access services from multiple government agencies, leaving them more time to focus on their own priorities.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Prime Minister
  • Small Business

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will travel to Melbourne this week (July 18-19) to take part in a range of business and political events, including a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

Parents and partners of disabled people with high or very high support needs will be paid for caring for their family members, as the Government acts to restore fairness and dignity.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Julie Anne Genter
  • Prime Minister
  • Health

For the first time ever the Government has committed to a long-term plan that will see brand new schools and classrooms built, to meet demand for around 100,000 extra student places for children entering schools over the next 10 years.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Prime Minister
  • Education

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed the details of a Cabinet reshuffle that sees Kris Faafoi being promoted into Cabinet, Poto Williams made a Minister outside of Cabinet and a team put in place to advance the Government’s housing plan.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Defence Minister Ron Mark and Minister of Police Stuart Nash have confirmed New Zealand’s ongoing participation in the multinational information sharing and intelligence mission Operation Gallant Phoenix, based in Jordan.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Ron Mark
  • Prime Minister
  • Defence

New Zealand will conclude its non-combat Building Partner Capacity (BPC) mission at Taji Military Complex in Iraq in June 2020, when full responsibility for basic training will be handed over to the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters and Minister of Defence Ron Mark announced today.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Rt Hon Winston Peters
  • Hon Ron Mark
  • Prime Minister
  • Defence
  • Foreign Affairs

New Zealand will change its deployment of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) to the NATO-led train, advise, assist mission in Afghanistan by decreasing the number of personnel on the ground from 13 to 11.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Ron Mark
  • Prime Minister
  • Defence

Commercial fishing vessels at greatest risk of encountering the rare Māui dolphin will be required to operate with on-board cameras from 1 November, as the next step to strengthen our fisheries management system.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Prime Minister
  • Fisheries

Improving the mental health and wellbeing of young members of the rainbow community is at the heart of the establishment of the Rainbow Wellbeing Legacy Fund, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said today.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Prime Minister
  • Finance

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has congratulated the New Zealanders recognised for their contributions to the country and their communities in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

We said that we would be a Government that did things differently, and for this Budget we have done just that. Today we have laid the foundation for not just one Wellbeing Budget, but a different approach for Government decision-making all together.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

New Zealand’s long term challenges of mental health, child poverty, children in State care, family violence and homelessness are being taken seriously in the Government’s Wellbeing Budget.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

The Wellbeing Budget will continue the Government’s drive to make New Zealand into the best place in the world to be a child, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Hon Tracey Martin
  • Jan Logie
  • Prime Minister
  • Children
  • Education
  • Justice
  • Social Development

Budget 2019 delivers on many of the recommendations contained in the Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction, He Ara Oranga. The Inquiry revealed that a new approach to mental health and addiction is needed in New Zealand which the Government is starting to deliver.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Hon Phil Twyford
  • Hon Andrew Little
  • Hon Dr David Clark
  • Hon Jenny Salesa
  • Prime Minister
  • Corrections
  • Health
  • Housing and Urban Development
  • Justice

The Government’s response to He Ara Oranga (the report of the Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction) shows just how seriously the Government is taking mental health and addiction.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Dr David Clark
  • Prime Minister
  • Health

As you know, the Coalition Government’s first Wellbeing Budget will be unveiled in less than a week. I know you will all have heard a lot of talk about it and now it’s a reality. It’s a reality because while economic growth is important – and something we will continue to pursue – it alone does not guarantee improvements to New Zealanders’ living standards.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

“New Zealand and India have a close and long-standing relationship based on our shared democratic values and Commonwealth heritage, and growing trade, tourism and education links,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

The Government has today confirmed the first set of official targets to break the cycle of child poverty, one of New Zealand’s most significant intergenerational wellbeing challenges.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Child Poverty Reduction

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced two practical steps she will take in response to the Francis Review.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

Vanuatu’s Prime Minister Charlot Salwai will visit New Zealand from 20 to 23 May, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has congratulated Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on his election victory.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

An even closer relationship between Singapore and New Zealand has been launched by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today that will see trade, defence, cybersecurity, education and arts and culture ties strengthened and an improved working holiday scheme for young New Zealanders launched.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will travel to Singapore on Friday 17 May to launch the New Zealand-Singapore Enhanced Partnership and meet Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President Halimah Yacob.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister