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The thousands of young New Zealanders starting school or heading back to school this week are joining a world class education system with more teachers, more funding and major initiatives successfu

Taloha ni, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Ni sa bula vinaka, Namaste, Kia orana koutou katoatoa, Ia Orana, Gud de tru olgeta, Talofa, Kia ora tatau and Warm Pacific Greetings to you

Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick has announced today on World Wetlands Day that a unique area of New Zealand wetlands has received international recognition.

Prime Minister Helen Clark today opens the $300 million Northern Busway which is one of New Zealand’s largest ever public transport projects and which is forecast to take an estimated 2,400 c

Jim Anderton, Progressive Party Leader and MP for Wigram, today told a group of high achieving students that a key inspiration for him in politics is the idea of equality and the idea of doing thin

Good evening and thank you for the opportunity to be involved in the opening of New Zealand’s largest multi-sport event - the 2008 New Zealand Masters Games.

The Associate Minister of Energy, Hon Harry Duynhoven, today announced that the new Minerals Programme for Minerals (Excluding Petroleum) 2008 will come into force today.

Good afternoon and thank you for the invitation to open the 2008 World Croquet Championships - the second time that New Zealand has had the opportunity to host this fantastic event.

Foreign Minister Winston Peters today welcomed Thailand’s return to parliamentary democracy after 16 months of military rule.

Internal Affairs Minister, Rick Barker today declared the new Lottery Significant Projects Fund open for applications for the 2008 funding round.

Research, Science and Technology Minister Pete Hodgson was one of many New Zealand and international presenters who spoke today at the New Zealand Bioethics Conference in Dunedin.

Kia ora koutou katou and thank you for the warm welcome you have given me today.

Associate Health Minister Damien O’Connor today welcomed this year’s World Cancer Day theme which aims to protect kids from the dangers of second hand smoke.

A successful ad campaign promoting New Zealand in Australia is getting the go ahead for a second round of ads in autumn, Tourism Minister Damien O’Connor said today.

Associate Health Minister Steve Chadwick is today highlighting a new campaign to raise the level of breastfeeding in New Zealand at a visit to the Baby Café in Hastings.

The social marketing campaign, which will be launched later this year, is designed to target the wider families of breastfeeding mums to encourage them to help support breastfeeding.

The Labour-led government is supporting this campaign, which will particularly target Maori and Pacific families and will include a series of advertisements on television, radio and in newspapers.

Viaduct Harbour Marine Village, Auckland
Saturday 31^st January 2009; 7:30pm

New Zealand and Samoa have successfully concluded negotiations on the major outstanding issues in Samoa’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) bilateral accession negotiation, Trade Minister Phil G

Communications and Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe is now considering submissions on Telecom’s Amended Separation Plan. Submissions closed on 25 January.

The Labour-led government is continuing to protect biodiversity and spectacular landscape in the South Island high country with the purchase of almost 8,000 hectares of land between Omarama and St Bathans, Land Information Minister David Parker and Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick announced today.

The 7,861 hectare Twinburn property is a pastoral lease in Central Otago. It is located within the boundaries of the proposed Oteake Conservation Park and adjoins Michael Peak Station, which the government bought last year to also include in the park. 

Another step towards New Zealand becoming a sustainable nation has been taken with the release of a discussion document on a Vehicle Fuel Economy Standard for all new and used light vehicles enteri

Changes are to be made to seasonal work policies to enable workers on visitors' permits greater flexibility to move between employers and regions, the Immigration Minister Clayton Cosgrove said tod

Building and Construction Minister Shane Jones today takes over administrative responsibility for the 2006 Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers (PGD) Act.

Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to join you here today.

I am very pleased to accept this important report prepared by the Ministry for the Environment.

The report Environment New Zealand 2007 provides a timely check up on the health of our environment and charts New Zealand’s journey towards sustainability, Environment Minister Trevor Mallard said at the report's launch today.