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Health Minister Annette King has begun consultation with the Mental Health Commission to finalise a timetable for providing the necessary mental health services for New Zealand.

  • Annette King
  • Health

The Government today took the first step in its promised streamlining of health administration by announcing the chairman of an interim board to oversee the process of bringing the Health Funding Authority Health into the Ministry of Health.

  • Annette King
  • Health

Health Minister Annette King said today she was disturbed at some aspects of Health Waikato Ltd’s procedures in deciding to purchase and implement a new information technology system.

  • Annette King
  • Health

Today’s announcements on the minimum wage, training incentive allowance, student loans and the F-16 review show that the Labour-Alliance government is determined to advance rapidly with the programme of positive change New Zealanders mandated on 27 November.

  • Helen Clark
  • Prime Minister

The 2GHz auction scheduled for January 31 is to be postponed to allow competition concerns with the auction to be addressed, the Minister of Communications Paul Swain announced today.

  • Paul Swain
  • Communications and Information Technology

The $22 a week increase in the minimum wage announced today is being welcomed by the Alliance.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Deputy Prime Minister

Work is to begin immediately to review the youth minimum wage, Youth Affairs Minister and Associate Minister of Labour Laila Harré announced today.

The adult minimum wage was today increased from $7 an hour to $7.55.

  • Laila Harré
  • Youth Affairs

Alliance leader and Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton is attributing the rapid pace of action by the new government to the co-operative approach the Alliance and Labour are taking to the new coalition.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Unassigned Portfolio

A planned strategy is needed to stop the exodus of young New Zealand doctors to Australia, Health Minister Annette King said today.

  • Annette King
  • Unassigned Portfolio

Cabinet Minister Sandra Lee, in one of her first acts as Conservation Minister, today declared New Zealand’s only native dolphin a threatened species under the provisions of the Marine Mammals Protection Act.

  • Sandra Lee
  • Unassigned Portfolio

Dannevirke’s Te Kura Kaupapa o Tamaki Nui a Rua will be able to accept secondary students from next year, Associate Education Minister Parekura Horomia said today.

  • Parekura Horomia
  • Education

"On Monday this week the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus an important resolution put forward by New Zealand which will change the way in which international cooperation on ocea

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today the Acting Minister of Immigration has advised her that he has taken action to rescind the residency applications of Chinese investors, approved by former Im

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

His Excellency The Governor-General has advised that Her Majesty The Queen has been graciously pleased to approve the retention of the title "The Honourable" by:

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  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

Education Minister Nick Smith announced today that the Homai Vision Education Centre in Auckland would become part of the state school network from next July.

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Education Minister Nick Smith today announced the selection of forty schools that will participate in next year's $10 million trial of self managing property funding, during a visit to Waihi Colleg

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Tourism Minister Lockwood Smith today announced a grant of $112,500 to the Museum of Wellington, City and Sea. The grant will be directed towards one of the Museum's signature displays, known as the 'Creation Legend' feature, which opens to the public on Saturday.

"The Creation Legend feature uses modern day technology to tell two Maori legends, one of the creation of Wellington Harbour by the taniwha Whataitai and Ngake, and the other of how Maui found fire," said Dr Smith.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Tourism

Tourism Minister Lockwood Smith today announced a grant of $50,000 to the Greymouth Heritage Trust towards the development of Coal River Park.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Tourism

The Labour Party should stop talking down to exporters and quit bad mouthing their success, according to Trade Minister Lockwood Smith.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • International Trade

Helen Clark's promise to abolish New Zealand's Industry Training Scheme is a cruel hoax on the workers of New Zealand, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley today advised the Governor-General to withdraw Immigration Minister Tuariki John Delamere's warrant as Minister of Immigration following disclosure that he authorised p

  • Jenny Shipley
  • Prime Minister

Minister responsible for Y2K Maurice Williamson has welcomed the vast improvement in State Sector readiness with 97 percent of high impact agencies now on target to be ready for Y2K.

  • Maurice Williamson
  • Y2K

Tourism Minister Lockwood Smith today announced a grant of $46,000 to the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute (MACI) to provide permanent night lighting for the Pohutu Geyser at the Whakare

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Tourism

Tourism Minister Lockwood Smith has welcomed New Zealand Tourism Board statistics that show the tourism industry brought $3.7 billion dollars into the economy this past year - up 19% from last year

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Tourism