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It is an honour and a privilege to present the Wellbeing Budget 2021 – Securing Our Recovery – to the House.

Mr Speaker

It’s great to be here to celebrate Contact Energy’s new 580 million dollar geothermal power station to be built on the Tauhara field near Taupō.

I want to thank the organisers of today’s Summit, the AI Forum of New Zealand, in particular the Chair, the deputy chair and the Executive Director for their kind invitation to address you all.

Thank you for being here tonight as I outline the government’s planning to improve New Zealand’s immigration system so it works for New Zealand.

Kia ora koutou katoa. It’s great to be here today, at our now-regular event in anything-but-regular times.

Celebrating Nelson’s participation in Te Hurihanganui today is an important milestone not just for the community, but for the education system and the Government. Nelson will be at the forefront of our work to address racism and inequity in the education system and improve outcomes for ākonga Māori and their whānau not just here, but across the country. Communities are at the heart of Te Hurihanganui because they know their people, their local contexts and histories, and what works best for them.

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It is a great pleasure to be here with you all today.

Thank you Grenville for the introduction and thanks to the organisers, the New Zealand Wind Energy Association, for inviting me to speak this morning.

Thank you for the opportunity to welcome you all to Parliament and to open this two-day dialogue on this important kaupapa: a health-based approach to on-going drug reform.

Thank you for the invitation to speak to you today, and to share with you some of the Government’s thinking leading into this year’s budget.

Trade Policy Road Show Speech
Manukau, Auckland

Kia ora koutou – nau mai, haere mai ki Manukau, ki Tāmaki.

The TRENZ Hui 2021 themes: Revive – Reconnect – Revitalise align with a lot of the aims the Government has for the tourism sector. But there are another couple of ‘r’s that I will soon speak to you about today – Recovery and Re-set.

Before getting started, I just want to echo the sentiment of others and pay tribute to the late Brian Corban.

It’s a pleasure to be here today. Thank you Karen [Sherry] for the introduction and thanks to the Energy Trusts Executive for inviting me to speak at tonight’s event.

In 2016 the founding cohort of Pūhoro STEM Academy exceeded nationwide pass-rates of non-Māori in NCEA Level 1 physics, biology and chemistry. This trend has continued every year. I’m very pleased to announce today that a new funding agreement will see the Government provide $2.97 million for a further three years, enabling the Pūhoro STEM Academy to increase their student numbers to over 5,000, and continue this story of Māori educational success.

Thank you for the invitation to speak today, it is great to be here.  I mean that both sincerely and literally.

I'd like to start by thanking Graeme, David and Ben from NZTech and Digital Identity New Zealand for inviting me to speak to you.

It is my pleasure to join you today for this China Business Summit – my first as Minister for Trade and Export Growth as well as Minister of Agriculture – and to have the opportunity to speak to you about the New Zealand-China trade relationship.

Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, ata marie, tena koutou katoa, good morning. I am very happy to be here with you once again at my fourth China Business Summit.

I would like to begin by acknowledging a few people here today.  Firstly, Chris Karamea Insley for his hard work and commitment to the vision of Te Taumata.

The Government needs up-to-date and accurate data on the size and scope of the Māori economy for us to understand how best to focus effort and resources.

Today we are breaking new ground in the development of Tiriti-based partnerships with public service agencies. This is an historic occasion; it was 20 years ago when Māori educationalists gathered here under the mantle of Tā Tumu and carved out an agenda for Māori educational success. The broad aim then, as it is today, was seeking active Māori participation in the design of education policies and programmes within a model of partnership and from the foundations of a focused Māori voice.

In three years, we have safely reduced the prison population by 19 per cent. There are now 830 fewer Māori in prison. The Māori imprisonment rate, while still too high, has been decreasing, and Māori reconviction and reimprisonment rates are improving. Those are real results, but to continue making progress we need to keep doing things differently. We need to make real change. And it’s a real pleasure to be here today to share details of what that change looks like with Māori Pathways in Hawke’s Bay.