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Incident at Rimutaka Prison being investigated
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 4:20 pm | New Zealand Government
Corrections Minister Damien O'Connor says he has already called for an investigation into a reported incident at Rimutaka Prison. More >>
New medal for Asian Tsunami relief efforts
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 4:09 pm | New Zealand Government
Prime Minister Helen Clark today presented the New Zealand Special Service Medal (NZSSM Asian Tsunami) to 29 New Zealanders who served in areas affected by the Boxing Day tsunami. More >>
NZ maintains pressure on Australia over apples
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 4:08 pm | New Zealand Government
The government today delivered a detailed submission to Biosecurity Australia on its revised draft Import Risk Analysis (IRA) on New Zealand apples, Biosecurity Minister Jim Anderton and Trade Minister Phil Goff said. More >>
Cosgrove: The Way Ahead For Privacy In New Zealand
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 3:57 pm | New Zealand Government
Reforming the Privacy Act is a priority for this Government during this parliamentary term. The wide ranging provisions of the Privacy Act also need to keep pace with technological, scientific and human rights developments. More >>
English ordered electives manipulation
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 3:06 pm | New Zealand Government
Former Minister of Health Bill English ordered public hospitals to manipulate elective surgery thresholds in order to conceal growth in waiting lists, a letter released by Health Minister Pete Hodgson today shows. More >>
Aid efforts commended by Ministerial Review
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 1:52 pm | New Zealand Government
New Zealand’s foreign aid efforts are on track and being well managed by NZAID, the government’s international aid and development agency, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said. More >>
Anderton: Good rural Internet vital to NZ's future
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 11:32 am | New Zealand Government
New Zealand cannot afford to let its rural communities lag behind in the drag race down the information superhighway, Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton told the TUANZ rural broadband symposium in Timaru today. More >>
1 April tax changes positive for business
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 10:25 am | New Zealand Government
From 1 April thousands of businesses will enjoy significant reductions in compliance costs and find it easier to recruit skilled labour from overseas, Finance Minister Dr Michael Cullen said today. More >>
Regional Cancer networks help cancer patients
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 9:36 am | New Zealand Government
Services for cancer patients will be greatly improved once regional cancer networks are established Health Minister Pete Hodgson said today at a meeting of District Health Boards (DHBs), non-government organizations (NGOs), cancer consumer organisations, ... More >>
Peters launches Greyhounds as Pets adoption
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 8:33 am | New Zealand Government
Racing Minister Winston Peters says he's pleased to launch New Zealand's first Greyhounds As Pets adoption programme this evening. More >>
Government supports reforms to improve Courts
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 8:32 am | New Zealand Government
The Government has indicated its agreement with many of the recommendations made by the Law Commission in its report on Criminal Pre-Trial Processes, in the Government's response to the report tabled in Parliament today. More >>
Average family $70 a week worse off with National
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 8:25 am | New Zealand Government
The roll out of the Working For Families package has highlighted the unfairness of National's unaffordable tax cuts that favoured the wealthy, says Social Development and Employment Minister David Benson-Pope. More >>
Anderton: TUANZ Rural Broadband Symposium
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 12:24 am | New Zealand Government
I had intended to be with you in person today, and when I couldn't attend your conference because of other commitments, I thought I'd take some of my own advice about innovation and speak to you via a video link from the Beehive. More >>
NZ observer mission heads to Solomon elections
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 12:14 am | New Zealand Government
New Zealand is to send ten election observers to Solomon Islands as part of an international observer mission for the coming elections, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said today. More >>
Minister urges caution on coverage of Putaruru
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 4:21 pm | New Zealand Government
Education Minister Steve Maharey is reinforcing the Ministry of Education's message to media not to publish further stories about Putaruru students. More >>
Brownlee slams Key’s tax costings
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 3:55 pm | New Zealand Government
National's deputy leader Gerry Brownlee has gone out of his way today to embarrass and undermine the authority of National's finance spokesman John Key, said Finance Minister Michael Cullen today. More >>
Dunne: Speech to Summit of Superannuation Funds
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 3:33 pm | New Zealand Government
the government's proposed changes to the tax rules and how they will affect investment through collective investment vehicles, More >>
Burton: Crimes of Torture Amendment Bill
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 3:30 pm | New Zealand Government
This Bill will ensure that for generations of New Zealanders, now and in the future, torture will remain an unthinkable possibility in a country that treats this practice with the contempt it deserves. More >>
O'Connor welcomes terms of prison build review
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 3:27 pm | New Zealand Government
Corrections Minister Damien O'Connor has welcomed the terms of an independent review into the regional prisons development project's cost escalation, announced today. More >>
Cullen - Design in Business Academic Forum
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 9:36 am | New Zealand Government
Today's forum concerns one of the major challenges faced by the New Zealand economy and the New Zealand tertiary education system. I am not referring to the immediate challenges of slowing growth or the future path of the dollar, but rather the longer ... More >>
