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Competition for students to travel to Gallipoli
Monday, 31 January 2005, 4:17 pm | New Zealand Government
Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced an essay-writing competition designed to choose up to ten secondary school students to travel to Turkey in April for commemorative events marking the ninetieth anniversary of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli. More >>
Progress towards democratic and peaceful Iraq
Monday, 31 January 2005, 3:34 pm | New Zealand Government
Foreign Minister Phil Goff has welcomed the holding of the election in Iraq, and says that the level of voter turnout should be sufficient to give legitimacy to a new transitional government. More >>
PM: Commonwealth Auditors-General Conference
Monday, 31 January 2005, 2:04 pm | New Zealand Government
Rt Hon Helen Clark Prime Minister - Address to Commonwealth Auditors-General Conference, Banquet Hall, Parliament Wellington. More >>
Minister opens medical centre
Monday, 31 January 2005, 11:45 am | New Zealand Government
It's my great pleasure to be here today for the official opening of the new Whai Oranga O Te Iwi medical centre, and particularly for the launch of the new Dental Care Unit. The Minister of Health, Hon Annette King, is very sorry she is unable ... More >>
WTO negotiations get great boost
Monday, 31 January 2005, 9:47 am | New Zealand Government
A joint experts group is to be formed to recommend ways of strengthening bilateral trade and investment between New Zealand and Mexico, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today. More >>
Minister welcomes back bumper class of 2005
Monday, 31 January 2005, 9:44 am | New Zealand Government
The first of an estimated 758,300 New Zealand students will head off to school today, about 4,900 more than last year, says Associate Education Minister David Benson-Pope. More >>
Queenstown detective and pilot pay a cruel price
Monday, 31 January 2005, 9:37 am | New Zealand Government
Police Minister George Hawkins this morning expressed his deep sadness at being told of the fatal air accident which took the lives of an on-duty police detective and his civilian pilot at Queenstown yesterday. More >>
Watch out Dr Brash, the paranoids are after you!
Monday, 31 January 2005, 9:29 am | New Zealand Government
Claims that an NCEA history exam was an attempt to "brainwash" students have been dismissed as ridiculous by Associate Education Minister David Benson-Pope. More >>
PM congratulates Bravery Award recipients
Monday, 31 January 2005, 9:05 am | New Zealand Government
"These Bravery Awards recognise New Zealanders who have made extraordinary efforts to help fellow human beings, and showed great courage in doing so," Helen Clark said. More >>
Rick Barker Speech - Fruit Growers Awards Night
Monday, 31 January 2005, 9:02 am | New Zealand Government
Thank you for inviting me to speak this evening. It is exciting to see so many cadets completing their horticultural training and others getting their first year scholarships. More >>
Beehive Bulletin - Fri, 28 Jan 2005
Friday, 28 January 2005, 3:17 pm | New Zealand Government
National leader Don Brash's Orewa speech this week reveals the same policies the National Party made use of in the 1990s, says Social Development and Employment Minister Steve Maharey. Dr Brash wanted a return to policies based on punishment rather than ... More >>
Minister releases historic Agent Orange papers
Friday, 28 January 2005, 3:13 pm | New Zealand Government
Minister of Defence, Mark Burton today released papers from the Ministry of Defence and New Zealand Defence Force archives relating to allegations about the manufacture of Agent Orange in New Zealand. More >>
NZ and US submit joint WTO forestry trade proposal
Friday, 28 January 2005, 3:11 pm | New Zealand Government
New Zealand and the US are submitting a joint proposal to the World Trade Organisation aimed at tackling non-tariff barriers in the international trade of forest and wood products, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today. More >>
NZ promotes literacy programme in Vanuatu
Friday, 28 January 2005, 2:11 pm | New Zealand Government
A major new initiative to build child literacy is being jointly launched in Vanuatu today by Foreign Minister Phil Goff and Vanuatu Education Minister Joe Natuman. More >>
NZ funds helicopter to deliver food in Aceh
Friday, 28 January 2005, 1:33 pm | New Zealand Government
A helicopter funded by New Zealand's aid agency NZAID has begun delivering supplies from the United Nations World Food Programme to areas of Aceh still isolated after the tsunami, Foreign Minister Phil Goff said today. More >>
Garden Awards a blooming success
Friday, 28 January 2005, 1:29 pm | New Zealand Government
The winners of the second-annual Housing New Zealand Garden Awards were announced today by Housing Minister Steve Maharey. More >>
Student debt and repayment going down - Mallard
Friday, 28 January 2005, 10:04 am | New Zealand Government
The government's billion dollar-plus investment in tertiary education is reducing student debt and repayment times, Education Minister Trevor Mallard said today in response to a NZUSA survey of students. More >>
Speech to Auschwitz Liberation Commemoration
Friday, 28 January 2005, 10:03 am | New Zealand Government
Thank you for the opportunity to join you this evening. It is a privilege to be part of this commemoration, and to be here with you as you honour all those who died in the Holocaust, and those that survived. More >>
Financial assistance for live organ donors
Friday, 28 January 2005, 9:54 am | New Zealand Government
Live organ donors will be eligible for financial assistance from 1 February 2005, the Ministers of Social Development and Health announced today. More >>
New Zealand centre to open in Hong Kong
Thursday, 27 January 2005, 5:00 pm | New Zealand Government
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is to open the first ever "New Zealand Centre" in Hong Kong later this year, as part of its wider moves to make the most of trade opportunities in China, Hong Kong and the wider North Asia region for exporters, ... More >>
