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Airports bill passes first reading

Friday, 17 September 2010, 10:19 am | New Zealand Government

A bill intended to clarify funding of international traveller processing services at new and restarting international airports has passed its first reading in Parliament. More >>

Peter Dunne - Address to Institute of Criminology

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 4:53 pm | New Zealand Government

The question of whether drug offenders should be punished is not as straightforward as it might first appear. More >>

Legal Complaints Review Officer appointed

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 3:16 pm | New Zealand Government

Justice Minister Simon Power today announced the appointment of Hanneke Bouchier as Legal Complaints Review Officer and Owen Vaughan as her deputy. More >>

Offenders help earthquake clean-up

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 3:13 pm | New Zealand Government

Offenders on community work are providing valuable assistance with the Canterbury earthquake clean-up, Corrections Minister Judith Collins says. More >>

Foreshore and Seabed - a Political Mess

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 2:36 pm | New Zealand Government

Rt Hon Winston Peters has described new legislation repealing the Foreshore and Seabed Act as a curse on the future of race relations and the racial privatisation of thousands of kilometres of coastline. More >>

70th Battle of Britain Anniversary speech

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 1:46 pm | New Zealand Government

70th Battle of Britain Anniversary: speech at unveiling of Sir Keith Park statue, London, 15 September More >>

Plumbers Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 11:49 am | New Zealand Government

Building and Construction Minister Maurice Williamson today announced the appointment of Peter Jackson, Bill Irvine, Sue Ineson, John Simmis, Graham Hardie, and Alan Bickers to the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board. James Fruean has also been reappointed ... More >>

HELP to house Cantabrians

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 11:44 am | New Zealand Government

Housing Minister Phil Heatley is appealing to homeowners with unoccupied properties in Canterbury to help put a roof over the head of people who need a home in the wake of the Canterbury earthquake. More >>

Address NZ Chambers of Commerce

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 11:37 am | New Zealand Government

The Government has agreed on six policy drivers aimed at lifting New Zealand’s long-run growth rate and reducing the economy’s vulnerability to external shocks. More >>

New Zealand women highlighted at Shanghai

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 11:25 am | New Zealand Government

The advances made by New Zealand women over past decades will be highlighted at the WTCA Women Leadership Forum 2010 Conference in the historic Shanghai World Trade Expo in Shanghai, China this Saturday. More >>

New law to modernise security industry passes

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 11:15 am | New Zealand Government

A bill to modernise the regulation of the private security industry has passed its third and final reading in Parliament tonight. More >>

20 Year Anniversary of Volunteering Auckland

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 10:54 am | New Zealand Government

Twenty years ago, staff working in the National Women's Delivery Unit raised funds from garage sales and raffles to develop a memorial garden to mark the closure of St Helen's. More >>

Electricity Authority to be established November

Wednesday, 15 September 2010, 5:56 pm | New Zealand Government

Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee confirmed today that the Electricity Authority will be established on 1 November 2010. More >>

Quake claims to cover new, efficient heating

Wednesday, 15 September 2010, 3:23 pm | New Zealand Government

Cantabrians whose chimneys have been significantly damaged by the recent earthquake will be able to replace their old log burners or open fires with a new, efficient heater and the cost will be covered under their claim to the Earthquake Commission, ... More >>