New Zealand Government - Latest News [Page 2182]
Goff Praises Election Process in Indonesia
Friday, 24 September 2004, 5:28 pm | New Zealand Government
Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff has praised Indonesia's first direct election of a President as a landmark in progressing democracy in Indonesia More >>
Appointments to Guardians of NZ Superannuation
Friday, 24 September 2004, 4:38 pm | New Zealand Government
Finance Minister Michael Cullen today announced that David Newman and Glen Saunders have been appointed to the Board of Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation. More >>
Goff Praises Election Process in Indonesia
Friday, 24 September 2004, 4:32 pm | New Zealand Government
Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff has praised Indonesia’s first direct election of a President as a landmark in progressing democracy in Indonesia. More >>
Cabinet decisions on deepwater biodiversity
Friday, 24 September 2004, 4:00 pm | New Zealand Government
A multi-pronged strategy to improve the protection of deep water biodiversity and address the environmental threat from bottom trawling was announced today by Acting Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Jim Sutton, Fisheries Minister David Benson-Pope, ... More >>
Mallard Speech: 1st-Time Principals’ Induction
Friday, 24 September 2004, 3:53 pm | New Zealand Government
Thank you for the invitation to join you here today. I really appreciate the opportunity to talk to New Zealand’s newest principals about educational leadership and the future of our schools. More >>
NZDF Brigadier appointed to key UN position
Friday, 24 September 2004, 3:51 pm | New Zealand Government
New Zealand Defence Force Brigadier Clive Lilley has today been appointed as Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation, the UN’s oldest established peacekeeping operation. More >>
Mallard:First-Time Principals' Induction Programme
Friday, 24 September 2004, 3:34 pm | New Zealand Government
Thank you for the invitation to join you here today. I really appreciate the opportunity to talk to New Zealand's newest principals about educational leadership and the future of our schools. More >>
Anderton: CAYAD community meeting, Dunedin
Friday, 24 September 2004, 3:26 pm | New Zealand Government
Thank you, Dunedin Community Action Youth And Drugs, for organizing this meeting on reducing the demand for drugs in Dunedin. More >>
More opportunities from Step Up Scholarships
Friday, 24 September 2004, 3:22 pm | New Zealand Government
Step Up Scholarships are being extended to enable more university students from low income backgrounds to study in a wider range of fields, Associate Education Minister Steve Maharey announced today in an address to the New Zealand University Students ... More >>
Opening of Acute Assessment Unit, Hawke's Bay DHB
Friday, 24 September 2004, 3:15 pm | New Zealand Government
As Minister of Health, there is nothing I want more than for New Zealand to have the best possible health services it can afford. More >>
Goff-Annan Meeting Canvasses UN Reform Needs
Friday, 24 September 2004, 2:21 pm | New Zealand Government
Reform of the United Nations, and its ability to intervene to protect victims against fundamental abuses of human rights were on the top of the agenda at a meeting between Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York ... More >>
Process to resolve residence status of Zimbabweans
Friday, 24 September 2004, 11:57 am | New Zealand Government
The government has set up a process that will enable Zimbabweans in New Zealand on temporary permits to be considered for permanent residence, Immigration Minister Paul Swain said today. More >>
North Shore Policing Centre construction to begin
Friday, 24 September 2004, 11:36 am | New Zealand Government
Construction is expected to start later this year on the new North Shore Policing Centre, with occupation expected early in 2006. More >>
Research That Works
Friday, 24 September 2004, 9:22 am | New Zealand Government
Address to The Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics of New Zealand (ITPNZ) Sector Research Conference, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton More >>
Trans-Tasman banking integration progress
Friday, 24 September 2004, 9:11 am | New Zealand Government
Finance Minister Michael Cullen and Commerce Minister Margaret Wilson announced today that officials are undertaking work on the regulation of major financial institutions. More >>
Turkish-New Zealand trade talks
Thursday, 23 September 2004, 5:01 pm | New Zealand Government
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Abdullatif Sener and Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton have signed an agreed Minute focussing on a number of ways that the economic relationship between the two countries can be strengthened. More >>
Million dollar conservation project restores Raoul
Thursday, 23 September 2004, 4:46 pm | New Zealand Government
Rats have been successfully eradicated from New Zealand’s most remote nature reserve on Raoul Island in the Kermadec group, Conservation Minister Chris Carter announced today. More >>
New fund will link polytechnics with business
Thursday, 23 September 2004, 3:42 pm | New Zealand Government
Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) can now apply for funding from the ITP Business Links Fund, which received $21.5 million over four years in Budget 2004. More >>
Minister urges careful thinking about fee rises
Thursday, 23 September 2004, 3:27 pm | New Zealand Government
Governing councils of tertiary education institutions need to think carefully about how much they really need to increase student fees so that any fee increases are kept as low as possible, Associate Education Minister Steve Maharey said today. More >>
Strong 2003/04 fiscal outturn
Thursday, 23 September 2004, 2:15 pm | New Zealand Government
“The final outturn for the 2003-2004 financial year shows a continued strengthening of the Government’s fiscal position,” Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today. More >>