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Tertiary students will win with big changes and improvements to the way their education is funded, Education Minister Wyatt Creech and Associate Education Minister Brian Donnelly said today.

School students will benefit from improved standards and a better quality education all round through more resources than ever before being pumped into education.

Total education spending $7.1 billion in 1998/99.

The Coalition Government has so far committed almost $1.7 billion extra for education during its term of office.

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The Coalition Government is committed to additional Conservation funding for visitor structures, pest control, endangered species and marine reserves in this year's Budget.

This Coalition Government's commitment to safer communities is demonstrated with new and innovative programmes for reducing re-offending and increasing resources for prison security, says Correctio

Health spending in the Budget will increase by 6 percent and is another step towards giving people stability and certainty about the delivery of health services, Health Minister Bill English said t

About 30,000 people will get elective surgery procedures each year with the additional funding of $253 million over three years in this year's health package, Health Minister Bill English said toda

Health Minister Bill English confirmed today that income and asset testing for older people in long-stay residential care in public hospitals, and asset testing for older people in long-stay reside

This year's Budget confirmed the Government's on-going commitment to investing in the country's hospitals, Health Minister Bill English said today.

Health bureaucracy is being reined in, with savings of more than $30 million to be made over the next three years in the costs of administering the health service, Health Minister Bill English said

The removal of parallel importing restrictions takes away the last substantial form of import licensing still operating in New Zealand and will ensure that families and businesses are able to buy i

$400,000 has been allocated in the Budget towards providing assistance to Mayoral and community groups working on strategies and plans to assist their communities overcome any difficulties resultin

Sustainable land management in the South Island High Country will be improved through more money for the Land Tenure Review Programme, Minister of Lands John Luxton said today.

Five Russian vessels forfeited to the Crown in February will be returned to their Russian owners, Murmansk-based firm Karelrybflot, Minister of Fisheries John Luxton announced today.

In response to a unanimous request from the motor vehicle industry, motor vehicle tariffs, currently at 22.5 percent, will be totally removed at midnight tonight.

The Minister of Maori Affairs, Tau Henare today announced a review of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 (The Maori Land Act).

Changes to welfare benefits herald a radical change in welfare direction and reinforce the Coalition Government's belief that paid work is the key to achieving personal economic and social independ

Children and families in need will benefit from an extra $101 million being set aside over the next three years for services, the Minister of Social Welfare Roger Sowry said today.

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Chairman Yuri Dmitriyevich Maslyukov; Members of the Committee; Ladies and Gentlemen.

"Today's Budget gives New Zealanders good reason to be confident about the future," Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said.

"New Zealand deeply deplores India's action in exploding two further nuclear devices," Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

New Commerce graduates were asked, at a breakfast speech by the Minister of Youth Affairs, to remember their responsibility to communities and their role in creating a decent society.

The Opposition has been unable to come up with any facts in its personal vendetta against the Chairman of the Fire Service Commission, Internal Affairs Minister Jack Elder said today.

Foreign Minister, Don McKinnon, today expressed the Government ?s concern about recent developments in Indonesia, including the killing of six students during a political demonstration in Jakarta y