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NZ Supporting Wellbeing Of Children In The Pacific
Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 3:23 pm | New Zealand Government
Improving the well-being of children across the Pacific is an important development focus arear for New Zealand, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters says. More >>
Government Agrees Approach For Accelerating Māori Development
Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 2:20 pm | New Zealand Government
“For New Zealand to become a world-leading small, advanced economy, government will more effectively work with and alongside Iwi and Māori organisations,” Māori Development and Māori Crown Relations Minister Tama Potaka says. More >>
New Zealand To Benefit From End To Gene Tech Ban
Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 9:22 am | New Zealand Government
Science, Innovation and Technology Minister Judith Collins today announced legislation ending the ban and implementing a dedicated regulator to oversee applications to use gene technology will be introduced to Parliament by the end of the year. More >>
Minister Meets Stop Smoking Providers To Drive Smokefree
Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 9:08 am | New Zealand Government
Associate Health Minister Casey Costello is meeting with all of the country’s frontline stop smoking service providers this week to ensure New Zealand reaches the Smokefree 2025 goal. The meetings start in Wellington today (13 August) and will then be held ... More >>
PM Heads To Australia For Annual Leaders’ Meeting
Monday, 12 August 2024, 5:18 pm | New Zealand Government
Australia is our most important economic partner, with it our biggest investor and two-way trade worth more than $31 billion last year. We want to make it even easier to do business across the Tasman. More >>
Green Light For Welfare That Works
Monday, 12 August 2024, 4:16 pm | New Zealand Government
There are responsibilities that come with receiving a benefit, and there will be no more excuses for job seekers not knowing what those responsibilities are. More >>
ACC Regulatory Changes Will Improve Access To Treatment
Monday, 12 August 2024, 2:39 pm | New Zealand Government
Most paramedic treatment is covered under existing emergency ambulance service contracts, but rural general practices and urgent care clinics sometimes employ paramedics to help ease pressure. This change will ensure those practices are paid for paramedics ... More >>
Funding For Regional Flood Resilience Confirmed
Monday, 12 August 2024, 1:14 pm | New Zealand Government
Mr Jones made the announcement today at the regional growth summit in Nelson, the first in a series of such summits to be held across the country this year and into next. More >>
Time Of Use Schemes To Reduce Travel Times
Monday, 12 August 2024, 9:37 am | New Zealand Government
The Government will introduce legislation this year to enable time of use schemes to be developed to reduce travel times on our busiest roads and boost economic growth, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. More >>
Sports Minister Congratulates NZ’s Olympians
Monday, 12 August 2024, 7:54 am | New Zealand Government
New Zealand’s Olympic Team in Paris has delivered our country’s best-ever result at an Olympic Games with heart-stopping performances that will go down in NZ sporting history and a record medal tally, Sport & Recreation Minister Chris Bishop says. More >>
Statement In Response To Police Association
Monday, 12 August 2024, 5:15 am | New Zealand Government
Mr Cahill’s claims that we have been undertaking ‘restricted consultation’ and the Police Association has been ‘deliberately excluded’ demonstrate a paranoia ill-befitting of the organisation he represents. More >>
Over 1000 Children No Longer Growing Up In Motels
Sunday, 11 August 2024, 2:09 pm | New Zealand Government
Emergency housing must be the last resort that is used rarely and only for brief periods, which is why we are attacking the problem on multiple fronts and making real progress. More >>
Former Hastings Mayor Appointed As Crown Manager
Saturday, 10 August 2024, 2:50 pm | New Zealand Government
Mr Yule’s Crown Manager role will begin on 15 August 2024. The term of the role is one and a half years until 13 February 2026. More >>
NZTA Board Appointments Announced
Friday, 9 August 2024, 4:22 pm | New Zealand Government
These new appointments add significant delivery experience and commercial acumen to the NZTA Board and will help ensure NZTA is focussed on its core business of maintaining our roads and delivering the infrastructure that our country needs, at pace and in ... More >>
15 Years Of KickStart Breakfasts In Schools
Friday, 9 August 2024, 1:19 pm | New Zealand Government
Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston celebrated the KickStart Breakfast programme’s 15-Year milestone at Birdwood School in Auckland today with corporate partners Fonterra and Sanitarium. More >>
NZ, Australia To Establish Humanitarian Warehouses With Partners Across The Pacific
Friday, 9 August 2024, 1:13 pm | New Zealand Government
New Zealand and Australia will invest a combined NZ $47.5 million, working alongside other partners such as the United States, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. The initiative will see warehouses built in 14 Pacific Islands countries ... More >>
Graeme Mason To Chair NZ Film Commission
Friday, 9 August 2024, 1:11 pm | New Zealand Government
He has been the chief executive of Screen Australia for a decade, previously chief executive of NZFC itself for over four years, and has more than 30 years of international experience in film, television, and multimedia businesses. More >>
Government To Clarify Discharge Consenting
Friday, 9 August 2024, 11:20 am | New Zealand Government
Clarifications to discharge consenting provisions in the Resource Management Act will provide certainty for agricultural and horticultural producers, making sure councils continue to manage discharge consents in a practical way, Agriculture Minister ... More >>
Creating A Sustainable Immigration System
Friday, 9 August 2024, 10:31 am | New Zealand Government
The coalition Government is creating a more sustainable immigration system by adjusting international visa costs, says Immigration Minister Erica Stanford. More >>
Construction Sector Productivity The Same As 1985
Friday, 9 August 2024, 9:18 am | New Zealand Government
A new report highlights major and widespread productivity challenges facing the construction sector, underlining the importance of the government’s plan to make it easier and more affordable to build, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. More >>
