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S59: Terms of Reference for review announced
Monday, 7 September 2009, 5:05 pm | New Zealand Government
Prime Minister John Key today released Terms of Reference for a review of policies and procedures used by the New Zealand Police and Child, Youth and Family around the issue of smacking. More >>
Viet Nam’s top leader to visit
Monday, 7 September 2009, 4:57 pm | New Zealand Government
Prime Minister John Key says the General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Nong Duc Manh, will visit New Zealand later this week. More >>
Government welcomes infrastructure paper
Monday, 7 September 2009, 12:22 pm | New Zealand Government
Infrastructure Minister Bill English today welcomed the National Infrastructure Unit's release of a discussion paper on the state of New Zealand's infrastructure. The paper, which includes a stock take of key infrastructure issues and challenges, will be ... More >>
Minister Returns From Visiting Troops In Solomons
Monday, 7 September 2009, 11:25 am | New Zealand Government
Associate Minister of Defence Heather Roy has concluded her three-day visit to New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) troops on deployment as part of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI). "This visit has provided me with a valuable insight ... More >>
Injuries at home cost $640 million last year
Monday, 7 September 2009, 9:57 am | New Zealand Government
The cost of looking after people injured in their own home rose to $640 million in the year ending 30 June – an increase of 36% in just two years, ACC Minister Nick Smith said today. “ACC statistics show that almost half of all injuries sustained ... More >>
Real local authority, strong regional government
Friday, 4 September 2009, 4:04 pm | New Zealand Government
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide and Associate Minister John Carter are welcoming and endorsing the report of the Auckland Governance Legislation Committee. John Carter is also the former chair of the Select Committee. The Bill as reported from the Select ... More >>
Speech: Roy - ABCA Army Reserves Conference
Friday, 4 September 2009, 2:49 pm | New Zealand Government
Major General Rhys Jones, Major General James Scholar (USA), Major General Raymond Carpenter (USA), Brigadier Sean Trengrove, Brigadier Anthony Howie, Brigadier Tom O'Brien (UK), Brigadier General Gary O'Brien (CAN), Brigadier Bruce Cook (AUS), Brigadier ... More >>
ASEAN Secretary-General to visit New Zealand
Friday, 4 September 2009, 2:43 pm | New Zealand Government
ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan will visit New Zealand next week, Foreign Minister Murray McCully announced today. ASEAN – the Association of South East Asian Nations – is an important regional grouping comprising Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, ... More >>
Turia praises iwi for creating jobs for youth
Friday, 4 September 2009, 2:16 pm | New Zealand Government
Tariana Turia says it is great news that a rural Maori community has become the first group in Aotearoa to create jobs for their unemployed youth under the Government’s new Community Max scheme. “I take my hat off to Ngati Rangi and Te Atihau Trust ... More >>
Speech: Turia - Maori Health Providers' Hui
Friday, 4 September 2009, 12:01 pm | New Zealand Government
This will be a day which I hope will give us some excitement for our future as tangata whenua. As I travelled this morning from the geyserlands of Rotorua to the Wairakei thermal fields, I thought about the fundamental ahi kaa and kaitiakitanga relationship ... More >>
Critical social services get $8.8m funding boost
Friday, 4 September 2009, 11:21 am | New Zealand Government
Nearly $9 million dollars has been given to critical social services groups under severe financial pressure, says the Minister for Social Development and Employment Paula Bennett. 164 critical social services groups have been granted funding after ... More >>
Paris comes to standstill as WWII remembered
Friday, 4 September 2009, 9:53 am | New Zealand Government
Traffic in Paris was brought to a standstill today as Veterans’ Affairs Minister Judith Collins and the French Secretary of Defence, Hubert Falco, led a special ceremony to remember the war-time alliance between France and New Zealand. Thousands of Parisians, ... More >>
India: New Zealand to open new diplomatic post
Friday, 4 September 2009, 9:41 am | New Zealand Government
New Zealand will open a Consulate-General in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) later this year, Trade Minister Tim Groser announced today. Mr Groser is currently in India, attending a World Trade Organisation meeting in New Delhi. “India is a market that ... More >>
Home insulation retrofits top 7000 in eight weeks
Friday, 4 September 2009, 9:37 am | New Zealand Government
The Government’s home insulation scheme has resulted in more than 7000 New Zealand homes being insulated or fitted with clean heat in the eight weeks since the scheme started. Prime Minister John Key, Energy & Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee and ... More >>
Opening of the Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre
Friday, 4 September 2009, 9:17 am | New Zealand Government
If ever there was an occasion to celebrate the coming of Spring, this is it. More >>
NZ offers support after ship grounds in Samoa
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 4:56 pm | New Zealand Government
A team of New Zealand marine pollution experts has been sent to Samoa following the grounding of a container ship at the entrance to Apia harbour, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said today. “Five experts from Maritime New Zealand along with specialised ... More >>
Risk of regional airport disruption unacceptable
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 3:03 pm | New Zealand Government
The Government will introduce legislation to address the threat of regional airport control towers being closed and services unnecessarily disrupted, Minister of Labour Kate Wilkinson announced today. The introduction of statutory rest and meal breaks ... More >>
Biosecurity package a faster, fairer system
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 2:48 pm | New Zealand Government
A range of measures to boost biosecurity readiness and strengthen partnerships with industry has been announced by Biosecurity Minister David Carter today. “This package delivers on the Government’s election commitment to provide a more efficient post-border ... More >>
Speech: Turia - Auckland Disability Research Group
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 2:09 pm | New Zealand Government
Maya Angelou, the great African-American writer, could have written the foreword to this report when she said, “People will forget what you said; people will forget what you did; but they will never forget how you made them feel”. Today we gain ... More >>
Defence Review public meetings get under way
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 1:54 pm | New Zealand Government
A series of public meetings on Defence Review 09 starting in Auckland on Saturday will give people a chance for face-to-face engagement with the Government on the direction of the Defence Force in the coming decades. The meetings are part of the ... More >>
