Rt. Hon Helen Clark

BAY OF PLENTY — Helen Clark today paid tribute to the late Graeme Weld, Mayor of Western Bay of Plenty District Council, who passed away at the weekend.

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Prime Minister and Acting Foreign Minister Helen Clark today announced that New Zealand will contribute $1 million to the United NationsWorld Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan.

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Prime Minister and Acting Foreign Minister Helen Clark today announced that $1.5 million has been allocated to international organisations responding to natural disasters through NZAID (New Zealand's international aid and development agency).

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The food supply situation in Zimbabwe has deteriorated sharply in recent years.  It has been estimated that 3.8 million people in Zimbabwe presently need food assistance, with this number expected to rise to 5.1 million by January.

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One of the largest women's sporting events ever to be held in New Zealand is to receive $1.5 million government support, Prime Minister Helen Clark and Economic Development Minister Pete Hodgson announced today.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that New Zealand’s rights over approximately 1.7 million square kilometres of seabed have been confirmed by a special United Nations Commission.

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The Labour-led Government has taken a significant step towards reducing the cost of remitting money from New Zealand to Pacific countries.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today expressed concern and sadness at the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital city, on Saturday evening (Pakistan time).

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today condemns the series of bombings which has killed twenty people and injured more than ninety in central India’s capital city, New Delhi.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark and Defence Minister Phil Goff today announced two new medals to recognise New Zealanders who served with the United Nations Command in the Republic of Korea since 1958.

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AUCKLAND — Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd would visit Auckland on 19 August to participate in a trans-Tasman climate change conference.

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NORTHLAND — Prime Minister Helen Clark and Building and Construction Minister Shane Jones today announced a significant government capital injection into Northland Polytechnic.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark and Building and Construction Minister Shane Jones today announced a significant government capital injection into Northland Polytechnic.

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A Fellowship to foster the leadership and governance skills of future generations of Tongan leaders will be New Zealand’s gift to mark the Coronation of King George Tupou V, Prime Minister Helen Clark announced during her visit to Tonga.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark will travel to Tonga for the coronation of King George Tupou V of Tonga in Nukualofa on Friday, 1 August.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that the new Premier of Niue Hon Toke Talagi, will make his first official visit to New Zealand from Monday 28 July to Friday 1 August.

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New Zealand’s competitiveness and productivity will benefit from the new Skills Strategy Action Plan launched by Prime Minister Helen Clark at the Industry Training Federation’s annual conference today.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark is welcoming today’s announcement from the British Government that New Zealanders who have grandparents born in the United Kingdom will continue to be able to live and work in the UK for up to five years using ancestry visas.

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New Zealand’s giant inflatable Rugby Ball Venue will make its second international appearance, in front of London’s Tower Bridge in November, Prime Minister Helen Clark announced yesterday.

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ROTORUA — Rotorua’s Museum of Art and History is to get a $7.5 million government grant to complete its centenary redevelopment project, Prime Minister and Minister Arts, Culture and Heritage Helen Clark announced today.

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MANUKAU CITY — A new university campus in Counties Manukau, to be opened in 2009, was announced by the Prime Minister Helen Clark and Tertiary Education Minister Hodgson today.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today congratulated New Zealand company TZ1 on its appointment as a major player in the global market for carbon credits.

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The transfer of New Zealand’s rail assets back into New Zealand hands is a major step forward in building a sustainable transport system for the 21st Century, Prime Minister Helen Clark and Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.

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The Prime Minister moved.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark and Community and Voluntary Sector Minister Ruth Dyson have announced a one-off grant of $6 million dollars to preserve and promote the identity, heritage, culture and the legacy of peace of the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today paid tribute to the former United States Ambassador to New Zealand, Anne Martindell, who has passed away in Princeton, New Jersey, aged 93.

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The declaration signed today between New Zealand and Kiribati reflects the growing relationship between the two countries and sets the foundation for an expanded aid programme, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today after meeting with HE Anote Tong, President of the Republic of Kiribati.

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Intelligence Service, Helen Clark, announced today that the NZSIS, acting on a recommendation made by the Chief Ombudsman, has released a number of papers relating to Dr William Ball Sutch.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced the winner of the prestigious International Children’s Painting Competition, held to celebrate World Environment Day each year.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark and Customs Minister Nanaia Mahuta said today that New Zealand and Japan have signed a Customs Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) which will help exporters move their goods more quickly and efficiently between the two countries.

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New Zealand will make an immediate contribution of $500,000 to New Zealand aid and relief agencies involved in Myanmar, Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today expressed concern at the large number of lives lost and devastation caused by the cyclone in Myanmar.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today released new projections of New Zealand’s Kyoto liability, showing the provisional net position is projected to be a deficit of 21.7 million units during the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008-2012).

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today added New Zealand’s voice to calls for any second round of voting in the Zimbabwe presidential election to be free, fair and open to international observers and election monitors.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark and Customs Minister Nanaia Mahuta today presented awards to seventeen long-serving members of the New Zealand Customs Service, and paid tribute to their record of service.

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The Labour-led government has reached agreement with Toll Holdings Ltd for the purchase of Toll New Zealand’s rail and ferry business, Prime Minister Helen Clark and Finance Minister Michael Cullen announced today.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today expressed dismay at the deportation by the Fiji interim government authorities of Evan Hannah, a Fiji Times executive.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark will travel to Japan and Korea in May for meetings with the leaders of both countries to promote closer bilateral and regional co-operation.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark, Health Minister David Cunliffe, and Associate Health Minister Steve Chadwick today announced that the Labour-led Government has committed $164.2 million new funding over five years to a major immunisation programme to fight cervical cancer.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that the New Zealand Government welcomes the announcement that Chinese authorities will meet with a representative of the Dalai Lama to discuss issues relating to Tibet.

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AUCKLAND — Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Helen Clark today congratulated the New Zealand National Maritime Museum on completing its fundraising efforts to build a special tribute to yachting great, Sir Peter Blake.

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The President of Singapore, S R Nathan, will make an official visit to New Zealand from 26 to 30 April, Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today.

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WHANGANUI — Prime Minister Hon Helen Clark today opened a major new campus in Wanganui for UCOL, the regional polytechnic.

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NATIONAL PARK — Prime Minister Helen Clark has expressed profound sympathy and shock at news of the death of seven people in a flash flood near Mt Tongariro overnight. 

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Nine people from the New Zealand Defence Force and Police who have served as part of New Zealands peacekeeping response to the violence in Timor-Leste since 2006 received the New Zealand General Service Medal (Timor-Leste), during a special ceremony yesterday. 

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WELLINGTON — Prime Minister Helen Clark's full address to the 2008 Labour Party Congress at the Wellington Town Hall.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark says that a new bronze sculpture of a World War I soldier on Sydney's ANZAC Bridge will be dedicated at a special ceremony in April.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today moved a Parliamentary Notice of Motion in relation to events in Tibet.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today said New Zealand is deeply concerned at reports of violence and riots in Tibet and subsequently elsewhere in China.

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OTAGO — Prime Minister Helen Clark and Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick have today opened the new Motatapu track – the first back country section of the Te Araroa public walkway to open in the South Island.

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OTAGO — Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced that the Labour-led Government is making a grant of up to $6 million to the Otago Settlers Museum’s expansion and refurbishment project.

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TARANAKI — A government grant for the WOMAD Festival in Taranaki will minimise its environmental impact and keep tonnes of waste out of landfills, Prime Minister Helen Clark and Environment Minister Trevor Mallard announced today.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced that the Labour-Progressive Government is committing $700 million to a new research, development, and innovation plan for the future in New Zealand’s pastoral and food industries.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today celebrated a significant milestone in the Labour-led Government's commitment and support for families : More than 100,000 parents have now signed up for Paid Parental Leave since the policy was introduced in 2002.

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New Zealand has made a formal submission to the British Government about a proposed change in short term visa arrangements which could affect New Zealanders’ access to the UK, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.

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AUCKLAND — Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced that the Labour-led Government is making a grant of $30 million to the Auckland Art Gallery's major redevelopment project.

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MANUKAU CITY — Prime Minister Helen Clark and Education Minister Chris Carter today announced the first of the latest round of grants made by government to increase the number of places in early childhood education.

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Prime Minister and Minister in Charge of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service Helen Clark said today that the NZSIS, in consultation with the Police, is transferring a set of Police Special Branch Files about the 1951 waterfront dispute, to Archives New Zealand.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark will meet Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for the annual bilateral meeting between the New Zealand and Australian Prime Ministers, to be held on Wednesday, 27 February, in Canberra.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark will meet Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for the annual bilateral meeting between the New Zealand and Australian Prime Ministers, to be held on Wednesday, 27 February, in Canberra.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark outlines her Statement to Parliament, along with the visions and practical priorities her government will be pursuing through 2008.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced a $30,000 grant to the Earth Hour Christchurch campaign to encourage collective action to tackle climate change.

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A colourful new interactive, and fun website, geared at encouraging kids into exercise and healthy eating habits, was launched by Prime Minister Helen Clark and Sport and Recreation Minister Clayton Cosgrove today.

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WAIOURU — Prime Minister Helen Clark today praised the New Zealand Police for their work in ensuring the safe return of the 96 medals stolen from the Waiouru Army Museum last year.

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New Zealand has made representations to the Government of Afghanistan over the death sentence passed on an Afghan journalism student for distributing a report considered to be blasphemous and offensive to Islam.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that Ham Lini, Prime Minister of Vanuatu, will make an official visit to New Zealand from 17 to 20 February.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark has announced key priorities in the government’s substantial work programme in her annual Prime Minister’s Statement to Parliament.

On behalf of the Labour-led Government, greetings to the Chinese community as you celebrate the Year of the Rat in this year's Chinese New Year celebrations.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today launched a major New Zealand scientific voyage to Antarctica which will capture information on the effects of climate change in the region.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today outlined new government policy for all young people to be in school or some other form of education or training until the age of eighteen.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark says New Zealand’s efforts to adapt to the global impact of climate change have been recognised with the United Nations Environment Programme “Champions of the Earth” award.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that the new Solomon Islands’ Prime Minister, Dr Derek Sikua will make an official visit to New Zealand from Thursday 24 to Saturday 26 January.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that many representatives of other nations and associates of Sir Edmund Hillary from around the world will be attending the State Funeral tomorrow.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced details of the arrangements for Sir Edmund Hillary’s State Funeral on Tuesday, 22 January, and for his lying in state in the Auckland Cathedral of Holy Trinity in Parnell from Monday 21 January until the funeral service at St Mary’s in Holy Trinity, Parnell.

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New Zealand and Spain have signed a film co-production agreement to help develop screen industry partnerships between the two countries, Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Helen Clark announced today.

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DUNEDIN — Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Helen Clark has paid tribute to Hone Tuwhare, who passed away today, for his outstanding contribution to New Zealand literature.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that the passing of Sir Edmund Hillary is a profound loss to New Zealand.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark today extended her congratulations to the new Solomon Islands Prime Minister.

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WELLINGTON — Prime Minister Helen Clark and Environment Minister Trevor Mallard visit the children of Otari School to launch the Government's Sustainability Challenge along with the http://www.sustainability.govt.nz internet portal.

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Helen Clark will meet Australia's new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday.

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New Zealand has been elected onto the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG), at the CHOGM summit in Kampala, Uganda.

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Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that the climate change declaration agreed by Commonwealth Leaders at CHOGM makes a strong contribution to addressing the problem of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Trade and tourism links between New Zealand and the Philippines enhanced with the signing of new deal.

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It is a pleasure to be here tonight to celebrate export excellence, particularly in Export Year 2007.

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In the past year we've seen public opinion here and abroad firm considerably in favour of taking climate change seriously.

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New curriculum designed to support students developing the values and competencies they need for the 21st century.

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AUCKLAND CITY — A government grant for Sustainable Business Network.

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Prime Minister Hon Helen Clark and Foreign Minister Winston Peters today launched a new White Paper on New Zealand's relations with Asia.

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WELLINGTON — Address at the opening of Commonwealth War Graves Commission's 90th Anniversary Photography Exhibition It's a great pleasure for me today to open this exhibition of photographs of scenes from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's cemeteries and memorials around the world.

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New Zealand is working with other countries to put a resolution to the United Nations seeking the abolition of the death penalty.

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A service remembering the New Zealand and Australian casualties of the battle of Passchendaele.

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A speech at Southampton University.

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The United Nations Environment Programme has chosen New Zealand to host World Environment Day on June 5 2008, because of its commitment to a carbon-neutral future.

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The Prime Minister addresses an audience at the Oxford Union, England, 22 years after the historic nuclear-free debate involving Prime Minister David Lange.

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AUCKLAND — A review of some key developments in regional integration and co-operation of importance to New Zealand.

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Symposium to mark the centenary of the proclamation of Dominion status for New Zealand.

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WAIKATO — This is the fourth and the last of the new prisons commissioned by the Government as part of this project.

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WAIHI — Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced government funding of $1.8 million for the development of the Waihi Gold Discovery Centre.

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Agreement as a great opportunity for young New Zealanders to enjoy the experience of living and working in Mexico.

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Changes designed to improve the way the Service communicates with the public.

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