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Prime Minister and Minister of Women's Affairs Jenny Shipley and Associate Minister of Women's Affairs Deborah Morris today reiterated the achievements highlighted in the Government's report to the

The Government today emphatically rejected the CTU's accusation that New Zealand is in breach of the ILO's minimum wage conventions (Conventions 26 and 99).

Energy Minister Max Bradford said today he is saddened by the tactics being used by the Electricity Supply Association against the Coalition Government's electricity reforms.

The Minister for Courts, Hon Wyatt Creech, said today some courts fees payable by those who use the court system will rise from 1 July 1998.

The changes will be gazetted today.

The Government's electricity reforms are all about lower power prices for consumers, not protecting the vested interests of power companies, State Owned Enterprises Minster Tony Ryall said today.

The Department of Conservation has no intention of charging schools for public access to national parks and other conservation areas.

Canberra's decision to implement its CER obligations with respect to local television content quotas should lead to the New Zealand television industry having a much better chance of exporting its

Prime Minister and Minister of Women's Affairs Jenny Shipley and Associate Minister of Women's Affairs Deborah Morris today reiterated the achievements highlighted in the Government's report to the

New Zealand is participating in a major new international initiative to give fresh impetus to the nuclear disarmament process, Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton said today.

New Zealand is to make a special one-off contribution of $500,000 to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton announced today.

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Thank you for this opportunity to talk to you today.

The gas industry, along with the whole energy sector, has been through huge changes since I entered Parliament in 1972.

The Minister of Sport, Fitness and Leisure Hon Murray McCully has endorsed a report from a special Taskforce urging Kiwis to become more active.

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The Government is improving its record of appointing women directors to Crown companies and would continue with plans to make boards more representative, Minister for State Owned Enterprises, Tony

The temporary ban on coastal permits for new marine farms in the Marlborough Sounds has been extended for another year, Minister of Conservation Nick Smith announced today.

The 34th meeting of the Australasian Police Ministers' Council will be hosted by Police Minister Jack Elder on Wednesday. 10 June, he announced today.

Review of Police Administration
& Management Structures

Preliminary Draft Report

9 JUNE 1998

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton said today that New Zealand had made a strong call for the United Nations Security Council to continue to act decisively and effectively to defuse the developing

No wonder a party that gets its figures so wrong is engaged in Pyramid selling schemes, Deputy Prime Minister and New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters said in response to an ACT press statement

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ACT Party
Parliament Buildings
WELLINGTON

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Health Minister Bill English today welcomed State Insurance's decision to drop its latest health insurance advertising campaign, which he said was scare-mongering and based on unsubstantiated infor

The sale of Wellington Airport has nothing to do with Wellington Hospital in the context that the Wellington Mayor and some of the councilors have implied tonight, Treasurer Winston Peters said.

Treasurer Winston Peters said today that the future of ENZA was in the hands of the growers and they should make their views known to the Board in time for the 15 November deadline, by which time P