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Police Deliver Clear Message To Gangs
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 5:03 pm | New Zealand Government
“I want to thank the police officers involved for the outstanding work that has led to today’s arrests, seizure of property and drugs as part of Operation Highwater, a 10-month investigation in response to violent crime and offending in the town." More >>
Rooftop Youth Will Face Consequences
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 2:26 pm | New Zealand Government
This is the first rooftop incident at an Oranga Tamariki youth justice residence this year, compared to 15 similar incidents in 2023. More >>
Government To Appoint Crown Observer To Wellington City Council
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 1:44 pm | New Zealand Government
The Department has found that the Council has demonstrated an inability to understand the mechanisms it has available to manage financial pressures it is facing. More >>
Smarter Healthy School Lunches Programme Serves Up $130m In Savings
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 1:13 pm | New Zealand Government
“We have embraced commercial expertise, used government buying power, and generated supply chain efficiencies to realise over $130m of annual cost savings, even more than anticipated in Budget 2024,” says Mr Seymour. More >>
Government Provides Clarity To Farmers And Councils On Freshwater Plans
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 1:09 pm | New Zealand Government
“Labour’s National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020 (the NPS-FM) is extremely complex and expensive for farmers and councils to implement – and despite that it won’t deliver the outcomes for freshwater that New Zealanders would ... More >>
Govt Confirms Details Of Abuse In Care National Apology
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 11:44 am | New Zealand Government
On November 12 Parliament will apologise on behalf of the nation for the failures of the State across many governments. Following a mihi whakatau, proceedings will begin mid-morning with survivor voices and apologies from some government agency ... More >>
Improvements To Protect Children In Schools
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 9:15 am | New Zealand Government
“The Department has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the New Zealand Teaching Council to improve information sharing arrangements about individuals working in schools who are under investigation for offences relating to child sex abuse material”, ... More >>
Government To Toughen Three Strikes Bill
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 8:17 am | New Zealand Government
“This Government is committed to restoring law and order. The Bill to reinstate the Three Strikes law makes it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not acceptable in our society,” Mrs McKee says. More >>
Government To Clarify s70 Discharge Consent To Provide Certainty For Councils And Primary Sector
Monday, 21 October 2024, 6:09 pm | New Zealand Government
Our goal is to produce clear rules that unlock the double dividend of higher growth and productivity alongside positive environmental outcomes. More >>
Breaking Ground On The First New Road Of National Significance
Monday, 21 October 2024, 4:47 pm | New Zealand Government
The Government is keeping its promise to New Zealanders to deliver a new generation of RoNS across the country that reduce congestion, unlock land for thousands of new houses, and boost economic growth as we rebuild the economy to reduce the cost of ... More >>
NZ Heads To Samoa For Commonwealth Talks
Monday, 21 October 2024, 3:35 pm | New Zealand Government
This is the first time the two-yearly Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is hosted by Samoa, representing a great opportunity to profile the Pacific to the world. More >>
New Zealand Celebrates Epic Sporting Weekend
Monday, 21 October 2024, 9:13 am | New Zealand Government
“In New Zealand’s history there haven’t been too many sporting weekends like the one we’ve just seen, with epic wins from Team New Zealand, the White Ferns, the Black Caps, the Silver Ferns and the Paddle Ferns,” Mr Bishop says. More >>
Foreign Minister Represents NZ At Indonesian Presidential Inauguration
Monday, 21 October 2024, 8:59 am | New Zealand Government
“It was a pleasure meeting President Prabowo in Jakarta for the second time this year,” Mr Peters says. More >>
Removing Roadblocks To Building Infrastructure
Sunday, 20 October 2024, 5:42 pm | New Zealand Government
Having not been substantially amended since 1988, the Public Works Act is no longer fit-for-purpose; it is time to make changes to improve its fairness & efficiency. A targeted review by an independent expert advisory panel has identified instances ... More >>
Anniversary Of Equal Pay Act Shows We Have More To Do
Sunday, 20 October 2024, 3:33 pm | New Zealand Government
Minister for Women Nicola Grigg says her ambitions for the future are that there would be no pay gap in the public and private sector, and that is what we should all work towards. More >>
Attracting Investment On Agenda For Singapore Trip
Sunday, 20 October 2024, 12:54 pm | New Zealand Government
Attracting more overseas investment is a vital part of the Coalition Government’s economic strategy. More >>
Foreign Minister Completes Successful Visit To Thailand
Saturday, 19 October 2024, 5:49 pm | New Zealand Government
High-level contact between our two countries is key to taking our relationship to the next level. That is why we have agreed to re-establish regular and substantial Foreign Minister consultations. More >>
West Coast To Offer Rural And Remote Medicine Training
Friday, 18 October 2024, 2:11 pm | New Zealand Government
One of the five priorities of the National Rural Health Strategy is to create a valued and flexible rural health workforce and training young doctors to be rural generalists will support the delivery of this priority. More >>
Government Praises Important Progress On East Coast Clean-Up
Friday, 18 October 2024, 11:58 am | New Zealand Government
There is strong momentum and coordination of work in the region across local and central government, and the Forestry and Agriculture sectors in addressing the impacts of last year’s cyclones,” Mr McClay says. More >>
New Members Appointed To NZ On Air Board
Friday, 18 October 2024, 11:40 am | New Zealand Government
Brett Banner and Philip Crump have been appointed to the NZ On Air Board, Media and Communications Minister Paul Goldsmith says. More >>
