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Department of Building and Housing
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The Department of Building and Housing, previously the Ministry of Housing, was a government agency within the New Zealand government. Its former functions are now incorporated within the Ministry of Business, Innovation, the new Ministry began operating on 1 July 2012. State housing Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
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Department of Labour (New Zealand)
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It was replaced with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment on 1 July 2012. The Department was established under the Liberal Government of New Zealand in 1891 as the Bureau of Industries with Edward Treager as its sole employee. The following year, when W. Pember Reeves was appointed the first Minister of Labour, over time, the functions of the department changed, including the acquisition of responsibilities around employment. The departments functions were reaffirmed through the Labour Department Act 1954, the new Ministry began operating on 1 July 2012. Employment New Zealand is the name for the part of the Ministry of Business, Innovation. Former Department of Labour official site
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New Zealand
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New Zealand /njuːˈziːlənd/ is an island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses—the North Island, or Te Ika-a-Māui, and the South Island, or Te Waipounamu—and around 600 smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. During its long period of isolation, New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal, fungal, the countrys varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. New Zealands capital city is Wellington, while its most populous city is Auckland, sometime between 1250 and 1300 CE, Polynesians settled in the islands that later were named New Zealand and developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight New Zealand, in 1840, representatives of Britain and Māori chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi, which declared British sovereignty over the islands. In 1841, New Zealand became a colony within the British Empire, today, the majority of New Zealands population of 4.7 million is of European descent, the indigenous Māori are the largest minority, followed by Asians and Pacific Islanders. Reflecting this, New Zealands culture is derived from Māori and early British settlers. The official languages are English, Māori and New Zealand Sign Language, New Zealand is a developed country and ranks highly in international comparisons of national performance, such as health, education, economic freedom and quality of life. Since the 1980s, New Zealand has transformed from an agrarian, Queen Elizabeth II is the countrys head of state and is represented by a governor-general. In addition, New Zealand is organised into 11 regional councils and 67 territorial authorities for local government purposes, the Realm of New Zealand also includes Tokelau, the Cook Islands and Niue, and the Ross Dependency, which is New Zealands territorial claim in Antarctica. New Zealand is a member of the United Nations, Commonwealth of Nations, ANZUS, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Pacific Islands Forum, and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sighted New Zealand in 1642 and called it Staten Landt, in 1645, Dutch cartographers renamed the land Nova Zeelandia after the Dutch province of Zeeland. British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicised the name to New Zealand, Aotearoa is the current Māori name for New Zealand. It is unknown whether Māori had a name for the country before the arrival of Europeans. Māori had several names for the two main islands, including Te Ika-a-Māui for the North Island and Te Waipounamu or Te Waka o Aoraki for the South Island. Early European maps labelled the islands North, Middle and South, in 1830, maps began to use North and South to distinguish the two largest islands and by 1907, this was the accepted norm. The New Zealand Geographic Board discovered in 2009 that the names of the North Island and South Island had never been formalised and this set the names as North Island or Te Ika-a-Māui, and South Island or Te Waipounamu
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Defence House
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The former Defence House is historic office building in Wellington, New Zealand. The building is classified as a Category 2 historic building by Heritage New Zealand, in 2007, the New Zealand Defence Force moved out of the building after tenanting the building since its construction in the 1940s. The building was no longer fit-for-purpose, and according to the Defence Force, Despite refurbishments the décor remained dull and dated, the Defence Force flags were taken down on 23 February 2007 in a ceremony to close of the building. In December 2012, it was announced that the building would be bought by Argosy Property Management for $33.2 million, a 12-year tenancy agreement was signed between Argosy and the New Zealand Government in January 2013. In late 2014, about 2,000 Ministry of Business, Innovation, the relocation had a capital budget of over $18 million, but ultimately $16 million was spent. Operational expenditure on the move was $688,000, the costs involved with the refurbishment were controversial, including the almost $70,000 cost of the MBIE sign outside the building, and the $360,000 cost of office furniture. Profile of the building, Architecture Now
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Wellington
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Wellington is the capital and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with 405,000 residents. It is at the tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range. Wellington is the population centre of the southern North Island and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the worlds windiest city, with a wind speed of over 26 km/h. Situated near the centre of the country, Wellington was well placed for trade. In 1839 it was chosen as the first major planned settlement for British immigrants coming to New Zealand, the settlement was named in honour of the Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington and victor of the Battle of Waterloo. As the nations capital since 1865, the New Zealand Government and Parliament, Supreme Court, despite being much smaller than Auckland, Wellington is also referred to as New Zealands cultural capital. The city is home to the National Archives, the National Library, architectural sights include the Government Building—one of the largest wooden buildings in the world—as well as the iconic Beehive. Wellington plays host to artistic and cultural organisations, including the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. It has an urban culture, with many cafés, restaurants. One of the worlds most liveable cities, the 2014 Mercer Quality of Living Survey ranked Wellington 12th in the world, Wellingtons economy is primarily service-based, with an emphasis on finance, business services, and government. It is the centre of New Zealands film and special effects industries, Wellington ranks as one of New Zealands chief seaports and serves both domestic and international shipping. The city is served by Wellington International Airport, the third busiest airport in the country, Wellingtons transport network includes train and bus lines which reach as far as the Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa, and ferries connect the city to the South Island. Wellington takes its name from Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington and victor of the Battle of Waterloo, his title comes from the town of Wellington in the English county of Somerset. One of the founders of the settlement, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, reported that the settlers took up the views of the directors with great cordiality, in Māori, Wellington has three names. In New Zealand Sign Language, the name is signed by raising the index, middle and ring fingers of one hand, palm forward, to form a W, and shaking it slightly from side to side twice. The citys location close to the mouth of the narrow Cook Strait leads to its vulnerability to strong gales, legends recount that Kupe discovered and explored the district in about the 10th century. The earliest date with hard evidence for Maori living in New Zealand is about 1280, European settlement began with the arrival of an advance party of the New Zealand Company on the ship Tory on 20 September 1839, followed by 150 settlers on the Aurora on 22 January 1840
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Wellington Region
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The Wellington Region is a local government region of New Zealand that occupies the southern end of the North Island. The region covers an area of 8,049 square kilometres, the region is named after Wellington, New Zealands capital city and regions seat. The region is administered by the Wellington Regional Council, which uses the promotional name Greater Wellington Regional Council, the Wellington Regional Council was first formed in 1980 from a merger of the Wellington Regional Planning Authority and the Wellington Regional Water Board. A proposal made in 2013 that nine territorial authorities amalgamate to form a single supercity met substantial opposition and was abandoned in June 2015. In its more restrictive sense the region refers to the cluster of built-up areas west of the Tararua ranges, the much more sparsely populated area to the east has its own name, Wairarapa, and a centre in Masterton. To a lesser extent, the Kapiti Coast is sometimes excluded from the region, Otaki in particular has strong connections to the Horowhenua District to the north. The Māori who originally settled the region knew it as Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui, legend recounts that Kupe discovered and explored the region in about the tenth century. The region was settled by Europeans in 1839 by the New Zealand Company, Wellington became the capital of Wellington Province upon the creation of the province in 1853, until the Abolition of the Provinces Act came into force on 1 Nov 1876. Wellington became capital of New Zealand in 1865, the capital after Russell. The region occupies the tip of the North Island, bounded to the west, south. The region covers 7,860 square kilometres, and extends north to Otaki, physically and topologically the region has four areas running roughly parallel along a northeast–southwest axis, The Kapiti Coast, a narrow strip of coastal plain running north from Paekakariki. It contains numerous small towns, many of which gain at least a proportion of their wealth from tourism, rough hill country inland from the Kapiti Coast, formed along the same major geologic fault responsible for the Southern Alps in the South Island. Rough hill country, lower than the Tararua Range but far less economic than the land around the Ruamahanga River and this and the other hilly striation are still largely forested. Other main centres of population are on the Kapiti Coast and in the farming areas close to the upper Ruamahanga River in the Wairarapa. Along the Kapiti Coast, numerous small towns sit close together, from the north, these include Otaki, Waikanae, Paraparaumu, the twin settlements of Raumati Beach and Raumati South, Paekakariki and Pukerua Bay, the latter being a northern suburb of Porirua. Each of these settlements has a population of between 2,000 and 10,000, making this moderately heavily populated, in the Wairarapa the largest community by a considerable margin is Masterton, with a population of almost 20,000. Other towns include Featherston, Martinborough, Carterton and Greytown, the region is by a large margin the wealthiest in the country. The most up-to-date estimates for regional GDP prepared by the Ministry for Economic Development put it at $17, at the 2006 census the region had the largest percentages of people in the four highest income groupings and the lowest percentage of residents in the loss group
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David Parker (New Zealand politician)
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David William Parker is a New Zealand politician, a member of the New Zealand Labour Party and a list MP. He was interim leader of the Labour Party from September to November 2014 and he previously served as Minister of State Services, Minister of Energy, Minister for Land Information and Minister Responsible for Climate Change Issues in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand. David Parker was born in Roxburgh and grew up in Dunedin and he attended the University of Otago, studying law and business, and co-founded the Dunedin Community Law Centre. Before entering politics, Parker worked as a partner in the law firm Anderson Lloyd Caudwell. He later had a career in the agri-biotechnology field, including with Blis Technologies. Parker first gained election to Parliament as a Labour member in the 2002 elections, in the 2005 elections the National candidate Jacqui Dean defeated him in his Otago electorate seat, but he returned to the House due to his position on the Labour list. In the 2008 general election Parker and Dean both stood in the resurrected Waitaki electorate, with Dean winning by over 11,000 votes, nevertheless, due to his list position he was still returned to parliament. In the 2011 election, Parker stood in the Epsom electorate, where he came third behind ACT New Zealands John Banks and Nationals Paul Goldsmith, in the 2014 election, Parker did not contest an electorate, but was number two on the Labour list. He served as Attorney-General and Minister of Transport and Energy from 2005 until March 2006, on 21 March Parker also resigned his place in Cabinet as Minister of Energy, Minister of Transport, and Minister Responsible for Climate Change Issues. An inquiry by the Companies Office cleared him of the charge of filing false returns, helen Clark, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, re-appointed Parker to the Energy and Climate Change portfolios and to the Land Information portfolio on 2 May 2006. In July 2007 Clark appointed Parker as the acting Minister for the Environment following the resignation of David Benson-Pope, following Labours defeat in the 2008 general election, Parker became the Opposition spokesperson on Conservation, ACC and Shadow Attorney-General. Parker ran for the party leadership in 2011, but withdrew part-way through the contest to support David Shearers bid, Parker then became the Labour spokesperson for Finance and the shadow Attorney-General. From 17 September 2013, Parker was the deputy leader of the Labour Party, following the poor performance of the Labour Party in the 2014 general election, and the eventual resignation of David Cunliffe as leader, Parker was appointed interim leader of the Labour Party. He then unsuccessfully ran in the 2014 Labour Party leadership election and he came third in the leadership election behind Grant Robertson
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Immigration New Zealand
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Visas are issued by INZ staff in offices throughout New Zealand and around the world. Visas are also issued by certain posts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the Immigration Act 2009, a visa is an authority for an individual to travel to, or stay in New Zealand. A visa has conditions that indicate what the holder of the visa may do, because of understaffing turnaround times to process visa application have steadily increased over the years. Currently INZ expects to process visa applications within 60 working days after an application is lodged, responsible for policy and systems development Business Information Branch e-Branch Processes applications lodged through Online Services. This includes student applications from approved education providers and Working Holiday Visas for many countries, national Contact Centre The first point of contact for phone/email enquiries from clients in New Zealand and Australia. Refugee Status Branch Decides applications for refugee status made by persons within New Zealand, Refugee Quota Branch Processes and provides treatment for refugees upon arrival. Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre Selects offshore refugees in order to meet the government’s humanitarian obligations, suva Branch Apia Branch Nukuʻalofa Branch Compliance Operations The main responsibility of Compliance Operations is locating and removing persons who are unlawfully in New Zealand. Compliance Operations is also responsible for managing the detention of persons who are detained, onshore Border Operations This branch is responsible for any immigration issues arising at New Zealand’s physical border. INZ maintains a presence at Auckland and Christchurch airports and a part-time presence at Wellington and Queenstown airports depending on flight schedules. Offshore Border Operations This branch operates the Advance Passenger Screening Support Office in Auckland, supported by intelligence analysts in Compliance Operations, Border Operations, Refugee Status Branch and the Immigration Profiling Group. In 2008, the General Manager Mary-Anne Thompson was forced to resign after not one scandal, despite these repeated and blatant breaches of policy, the initial internal investigation merely recommended counseling. She subsequently pleaded guilty to charges laid regarding this claim. Later, the director, Mai Malaulau, was controversially appointed the head of the Pacific Branch. The Pacific branch performed so poorly, that it was shut down by the department. In the year 2012,7 out of 10 complaints about access to department files, were upheld by the department. The Minister of Immigration was established by the First Labour Government in 1946, the current minister is Michael Woodhouse. Immigration and Protection Tribunal New Zealand Customs Service Visa policy of New Zealand Immigration New Zealand
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New Zealand Cycle Trail
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As of mid-2011, the first of the 18 proposed Great Rides were being finished, while construction was ongoing on most of the others. The first set of Touring Routes, had also been announced, at the end of 2013, with the initial $50 million essentially all spent or allocated, about 19 routes were expected to be in operation. By 2016, when added funding was announced, the route length was about 2. Originally called the New Zealand Cycleway, and later the National Cycleway Project, it was conceived as a cycling route to run through the length of New Zealand. It was proposed by Prime Minister John Key as the 21st surprise item of the national Job Summit held by the New Zealand Government in early 2009, the individual routes are to be connected into a New Zealand-wide network in the long term. John Key noted that to retain momentum on the process, the first sections to be funded would be publicised by June 2009 and this was slightly pushed out until July 2009, when the first seven projects were announced, to receive $9 million in funding. In the second stage of the project, it was announced in February 2010 that out of 54 applications,13 had been selected to receive funding, if all these trails and the quick-start trails were realised, they would provide over 2,000 km of trail. In September 2010, funding for five tracks was confirmed. On 2 July 2010, Prime Minister John Key opened the first segment completed with cycle trail funding, being the Old Coach Road segment of the Ruapehu to Whanganui Nga Ara Tuhono trail. By November 2010, eight trails were under construction, and the first full Great Ride, in mid-2011, it was announced that Sarah Ulmer would be the official ambassador for the New Zealand Cycle Trail. In May 2011, a website was launched for the trails. In January 2012, the most famous existing cycle route of the country, in February 2013, it was announced that with most project and funding-allocation work completed after 4 years, the number of permanent NZCT staff would be reduced from 7 to 3. The remainder of the funds would be open for local applications, the cycleway was originally proposed to be a continuous route with a concrete surface, and it was proposed that the Department of Conservation was to supervise the construction process. Cycling advocates noted that having the feasibility study undertaken by the Ministry of Tourism, rather than the Ministry of Transport, boded well for the future of the project. Rather, it was now envisaged that a network of tracks would be created, combined from existing part sections, or upgraded from other forms of tracks. Substantial parts of these routes could use existing railway corridor reserves or possibly paper roads, or existing cycle infrastructure and they would also have the ability to run through conservation land where appropriate, and take into account existing tourist destinations, thus providing particularly interesting routes. Prime Minister John Key, in mid-2010, noted that he expected 2,000 km of cycleway to be completed by the end of 2011. The intention of the trail, apart from creating jobs in a downturn, is to provide local and international cycle tourists with a route to travel on
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Kelvin Davis (politician)
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Kelvin Glen Davis is a New Zealand politician and a member of the House of Representatives. He is a member of the Labour Party, Davis was born in and grew up in the Bay of Islands. He received his education at the Bay of Islands College from 1980 to 1984. He obtained a Diploma of Teaching from Auckland College of Education and taught at Koru School in Mangere, Bay of Islands Intermediate School in Kawakawa and he then held employment with the Education Advisory Service and the education improvement and development project Te Putahitanga Matauranga. He was then principal of Kaitaia Intermediate School from 2001 to 2007, in the 2008 general election Davis stood for Labour in the Te Tai Tokerau seat. He was defeated by the incumbent Hone Harawira of the Mana Party and he was Labours candidate in the 2011 Te Tai Tokerau by-election and was again defeated by Harawira. He unsuccessfully contested the seat at the election later in the year. After placing second to Harawira three times and losing his seat at the 2011 election, Davis announced his retirement from politics, Davis was selected as Labours candidate for Te Tai Tokerau in the 2014 election. Due to Shane Jones resignation from Parliament at the end of May 2014 and he was declared elected to parliament on 23 May 2014. The Mana Party formed a coalition with the Internet Party just prior to the 2014 general election, the coalition was registered with the Electoral Commission as the Internet Party and Mana Movement in July 2014, allowing it to contest the party vote. Even the electorates candidate for the Māori Party, Te Hira Paenga, in his fourth challenge in the Te Tai Tokerau electorate, Davis ousted the incumbent Harawira, which ended the representation of the Mana Party in Parliament. Kelvin Davis on Twitter Profile on the Labour Party website
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Phil Twyford
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Philip Stoner Twyford, known as Phil Twyford, is a politician from New Zealand and a member of the Labour Party. He has been a member of parliament since 2008 and he is the Labour Party MP for Te Atatū. His middle name, Stoner, is the name of his mother. He is the director of Oxfam New Zealand. Twyford stood for election in the North Shore electorate at the 2005 and 2008 elections and he placed second both times but in 2008 he was elected as a list MP. Prior to entering Parliament, Twyford was a representative on Labours policy council, Twyford was appointed Labours spokesperson for Disarmament and Arms Control, Auckland Issues, and associate spokesperson for Foreign Affairs - Development Assistance by Labour leader Phil Goff. In 2009, Twyfords Local Government Amendment Bill was drawn from the members ballot, Twyford continues to be involved in the matter of Aucklands local government reorganisation, and is a Labour representative on the select committee on the associated Auckland Law Reform bill. In September 2010, his Depleted Uranium Bill, which would ban depleted uranium weapons and it was debated in June 2012, and failed to advance on a tied vote. Twyford is currently Labour Spokesperson for Housing and Auckland Issues, and he is also a member of the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee. In his maiden speech to Parliament, Twyford expressed support for a New Zealand republic
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Megan Woods
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Megan Cherie Woods is the Labour Party Member of Parliament for the Wigram electorate of the New Zealand Parliament. Woods was born and grew up in Wigram, Christchurch and she attended high school at Catholic Cathedral College and has a PhD in history obtained at the University of Canterbury. Woods was a manager for Crop & Food Research and its successor organisation Plant and Food Research. Woods was a member of the Progressive Party from 1999 to 2007 and was involved in several of Jim Andertons re-election campaigns and she contested the Christchurch Central electorate in the 2005 general election and came fourth, receiving 1077 votes. She was placed fourth on the Progressive party list, as the party obtained only 1. 2% of the party vote, she did not enter Parliament that year. She was a member of the Spreydon–Heathcote community board in Christchurch in 2004–2007, Woods joined the Labour Party in 2007. She did not contest the 2008 general election or the 2010 mayoral election, Woods was selected as the Labour Party candidate for the 2011 election in the Wigram electorate. She succeeded Jim Anderton, who had announced that he would retire either after winning the Christchurch mayoralty or at the end of the term of the 49th Parliament in November 2011. Until the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, Anderton was leading in the opinion polls, the earthquake resulted in a mood swing in Christchurch, and Anderton lost against Bob Parker. Anderton remained an MP until the end of the term of the 49th Parliament, Woods candidacy, which began in late 2010, was centred on job creation in her electorate. She stated in her Labour selection speech that Growing up here in the 1980s, I saw workplaces like the Addington Workshops shut their doors forever. Now I am 36 years old and am watching jobs disappear from our communities again, Woods also cited the rising cost of living for everyday people as a major concern. At the election, Woods won the seat with 45. 11% of the vote, Woods won re-election in the 2014 election with an increased majority
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Andrew Little (New Zealand politician)
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Andrew James Little is a New Zealand politician and former trade union official who was elected as Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party on 18 November 2014. He has been a Labour Member of Parliament since 2011, previously he was the national secretary of New Zealands largest trade union, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, and he was President of the Labour Party from 2009 to 2011. Born in New Plymouth on 7 May 1965, Little was educated at New Plymouth Boys High School and his father was a devout National Party supporter and Little recalls delivering National pamphlets under his fathers direction when he was younger. When he was 17, Little got his first job as a labourer digging the main trench for a new methanol plant in Waitara Valley as part of the Think Big project. During his time there he noticed that the contractor he was working for was deliberately using a less than amount of concrete than the work required. He finished work here at the beginning of 1984 and left upon being accepted to enter university, in the 1980s he studied law, philosophy and public policy at Victoria University of Wellington, where he became active in the campaign against New Zealands student loan scheme. He was elected president of the Victoria University of Wellington Students Association, after graduating he took a job as a lawyer with the Engineers Union, with his work including Accident Compensation Corporation and employment law issues. In 1997 he was appointed the general counsel. Two years later, he was appointed assistant national secretary, and was elected national secretary when Rex Jones stood down from the position in 2000, in 2007 Little was ranked at number 40 on the New Zealand Listener Power List. Little became an important extra-parliamentary figure within the Labour Party and was one of the advisors from the trade unions. Little was a representative on Labours national council as Affiliates Vice-President, on 2 March 2009 it was announced that Little was elected unopposed as President of the New Zealand Labour Party. He held that post until 2 April 2011 and he took on the ACC portfolio and gained profile during the National Partys restructuring of the organisation. Together with Trevor Mallard, he launched attacks against ACC Minister Judith Collins, the affair resulted in the resignations of the Accident Compensation Corporation chairman John Judge, and the ACC chief executive Ralph Stewart. At the 2014 election he stood and lost in the New Plymouth electorate. Young was returned with an increased margin, but this was partially explained by boundary changes. Little was elected as list MP because of his ranking of 11 on the Labour Party list, Little introduced a private members bill in the ballot that, if passed, would create a new criminal offence of corporate manslaughter. The bill was drafted in the wake of the 2010 Pike River Mine disaster, the bill is modelled on the United Kingdoms Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. A2012 3News poll found that seventy-four percent of respondents would like to see a charge of corporate manslaughter introduced, following Labours defeat at the general election in September 2014, David Cunliffe resigned as leader of the Labour Party
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Stuart Nash
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Stuart Alexander Nash is a politician from New Zealand. He was a member of the House of Representatives for the Labour Party from 2008 to 2011, Nash is the great-grandson of former Prime Minister, Sir Walter Nash. Born and educated in Napier, Nash holds masters degrees in Law, Forestry Science, before moving back to his home town of Napier, he was the Director of Strategic Development at Auckland University of Technology. The tactic didnt work, with Hide winning, though at 9,915 Labour received the highest number of party votes in this electorate at any time under the MMP parliamentary system, placed at number 60 on the party list, Nash failed to get elected. In 2007 Nash contested the Labour Party selection for the Napier seat in the 2008 general election, but lost to Russell Fairbrother, a list MP and the former Napier electorate MP. However Nash was ranked at number 36 on the party list and was elected to parliament as the lowest-ranked candidate who was successful at the election. After becoming a list MP Nash was appointed Labours spokesperson for Revenue, on 15 June 2010, Opposition Leader Phil Goff appointed Nash to be portfolio spokesperson for Forestry, a position formerly held by Mita Ririnui. In February 2011 Phil Goff announced his new line up and Nash was ranked 27th. In the 2011 general election, Nash contested the Napier electorate seat held by National Cabinet Minister Chris Tremain, Nash reduced Tremains 2008 majority of 9,018 votes by 5,300 votes but still came second. As well, Nash was ranked 27 on the Labour list, higher than in 2008, after leaving Parliament, Nash signed on as the chief-of-staff for newly appointed party leader David Shearer. However, Nash resigned after just four months into the job and returned to his town of Napier, citing the birth of his new child. In February 2014, Nash was selected as Labours candidate for Napier to contest the 2014 general election, nationals Tremain had retired and was succeeded by Wayne Walford, and Nash had a majority of 3,850 votes over Walford. The Napier electorate was contested by Garth McVicar for the Conservative Party
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Iain Lees-Galloway
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Iain Francis Lees-Galloway, initially Iain Galloway, is a politician from New Zealand. Since the 2008 general election, he has represented the Palmerston North electorate in Parliament for the Labour Party, Lees-Galloway was born on 18 September 1978 in Auckland, where he attended Kings College. He moved to Palmerston North to study at Massey University where he was president of the Massey University Students Association in 2005 and his parents, who are beef farmers, are firm National Party supporters. Following his term as student president, Lees-Galloway worked for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation as an organiser, Lees-Galloway joined the Labour Party in 2005 and became chairman of the Palmerston North branch in the following year. He was selected as successor to retiring MP Steve Maharey, who became Vice Chancellor of Massey University and he defeated the National Party candidate, Malcolm Plimmer, with a majority of 1,117 votes. Lees-Galloway was Labours spokesperson on information and defence, and associate spokesperson on transport. Prior to that, he was spokesperson on health and defence. In September 2010, his Smoke-free Environments Amendment Bill was drawn from the members ballot, as of October 2011, the bill is still awaiting its first reading. Lees-Galloway was confirmed in the 2011 election with a majority increased from 1,117 in 2008 to 3,285 in the latest election, currently he is the Labour Partys junior whip, spokesperson for ACC and associate health spokesperson. In the 2014 election, Lees-Galloway was challenged by the Mayor of Palmerston North, Jono Naylor, Lees-Galloway had a majority of 2,212 votes over Naylor. He also hosts a show on his local community radio station, official website Page on New Zealand Parliament website Page on New Zealand Labour Partys website
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Clare Curran
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Clare Elizabeth Curran is the current member of the New Zealand Parliament for Dunedin South. Curran grew up and was educated in Dunedin, she attended Moreau College where she achieved School Certificate and she has a BA double major in Anthropology and History from the University of Otago, and BA Honours in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington. Curran worked in communications for Australian unions over a number of years before returning to New Zealand in 2002 with her young family and she continued to work in public relations in Dunedin. Curran joined the New Zealand Labour Party in 2006 and she quickly rose to prominence within the Otago-Southland hierarchy, becoming a member of the Council of the New Zealand Labour Party. In 2006 Curran presented a paper to the Otago-Southland region of the Labour Party on capturing the language on climate change policy and this appointment was the subject of an investigation by the State Services Commission into the appropriateness of Currans engagement. The report found that the Ministry had failed to adequately identify Currans conflict of interest with respect to her relationship with Minister Parker, logan resigned as Chief Executive of the Ministry hours before the State Services Commissions report into the Curran affair was released. She is currently a member of many unions and political groups and she is a member of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and the Service & Food Workers Union. She is also a member of Greenpeace and she was also on the Council of the New Zealand Labour Party as Otago-Southland regional representative. In 2007, Curran launched a bid to unseat sitting MP David Benson-Pope as the Labour Party candidate for Dunedin South, Curran won the selection contest ahead of Benson-Pope and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Unions Don Pryde. Curran won the 2008 election against Nationals Conway Powell, however, in 2011, National Party candidate, Jo Hayes, reduced Currans majority from 6449 in 2008 to 4175 in 2011, and National gained a majority of the party vote in Dunedin South by 1837 votes. In the 2014 election, Curran was successful against Nationals Hamish Walker, in the 49th New Zealand Parliament, she was a member of the Commerce Committee, and was the Labour spokesperson for Communications and Information Technology
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Shane Jones
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Shane Geoffrey Jones is a former New Zealand politician for the Labour Party who is currently Ambassador for Pacific Economic Development. Jones was a minister in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand. He contested the leadership of the Labour Party in a 2013 leadership election and he left parliament at the end of May 2014. Jones is Māori, of Te Aupōuri and Ngāi Takoto descent, as well as having English, Welsh and he has a Bachelor of Arts and a Master Public Administration, and was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to study at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He stood in the 2005 election for the Labour Party, being ranked twenty-seventh on its party list and this is the highest position given by Labour to someone who was not already a member of parliament. He took his seat in the new parliament after the Labour Party won 50 seats in New Zealands 120 seat parliament, Jones held a number of senior roles in the public sector, being best known for his work as chairman of the Waitangi Fisheries Commission. He worked for the Ministry for the Environment and the Department of the Prime Minister, after his entry into parliament, after 2005 election, Jones became chair of the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee. He has often speculated by the media and among his colleagues as the future leader of the Labour Party. He scrapped a government proposal requiring new buildings to have low flow showers heads, Labour was defeated at the election and Jones contested the Northland electorate unsuccessfully, but was returned to parliament as a list member due to his high list placing of 16. Later that day Jones admitted that he had used the card to hire pornographic films at hotels while on ministerial business, the credit card record showed that he chartered an executive jet for $1200, which he claimed was due to bad weather which forced a change in his schedule. On 14 June 2010, opposition leader Phil Goff demoted Jones along with two other Labour MPs for misuse of ministerial credit cards, Jones was removed from the parliamentary front bench and stripped of the shadow portfolios of Environment and Economic Development. In 2008, when Jones was Minister of Immigration, he approved the application of Chinese businessman William Yan. Yan was charged with making false declarations on immigration documents, on 23 May 2012, Jones stood down from the front bench and his shadow portfolios while an investigation took place. Labour Party leader David Shearer asked the Auditor-General to investigate Jones handling of the citizenship application, Jones had acted against officials advice that he should decline the application because of questions about Yans multiple identities and a warrant for his arrest in China. Jones defended his decision, saying it was based on humanitarian grounds because a high-level Government official had told him that Yan faced execution if he returned to China. Shearer said Jones supported the decision to refer the matter to the Auditor-General because that was the way to clear his name. On 24 May 2012, Yan was found not guilty on all the immigration charges, on 30 May, it was announced that the Auditor General would conduct a formal investigation into the matter. On 22 April 2014, Jones announced his intention to step down as a Labour Party MP, tV3 reported he would be taking on the newly created role of Pacific Economic Ambassador
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Kris Faafoi
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Kristopher John Kris Faafoi, a New Zealand politician, holds membership of the New Zealand Labour Party. He became the representative of the Mana electorate in the New Zealand Parliament in 2010, faafois parents are from the Tokelau atoll of Fakaofo. Faafoi was married to Gina Faafoi-Rogers, who is a producer with Radio New Zealand and his elder brother Jason is a TV presenter and musician. He worked for the BBC and as a political commentator, prior to the Mana by-election, he was the chief press secretary for Labour leader Phil Goff, and the Rongotai Pacific branch chair of the Labour Party. After the resignation of Mana MP Luamanuvao Winnie Laban on 10 August 2010, Faafoi was chosen to represent the Labour Party in the resulting by-election, four people contesting the selection, with Faafoi defeating business manager Michael Evans, barrister Peter Foster and communications adviser Josie Pagani. Faafoi won the by-election with 10,980 votes, becoming the first MP of Tokelauan descent, hekia Parata from the National Party was placed second and received 9,574, giving Faafoi a margin of 1,080 votes. This was a significant decrease of Labans majority of 6,155 at the 2008 general election, Faafoi more than doubled the margin in the 2011, and had a 7,953 votes margin in the 2014
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Public sector organisations in New Zealand
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Public sector organisations in New Zealand comprise the state sector organisations plus those of local government. Within the state lies the state services, and within this lies the core public service. Disestablished in 1995 after failing to achieve financial viability, see, Education in New Zealand State-owned tertiary institutions consist of universities, colleges of education, polytechnics and wānanga. In addition there are numerous non-state-owned private training establishments and these are all also known as local authorities
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Department of Conservation (New Zealand)
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The Department of Conservation is the public service department of New Zealand charged with the conservation of New Zealands natural and historical heritage. An advisory body, the New Zealand Conservation Authority is provided to advise DOC, in addition there are 13 conservation boards for different areas around the country that provide for interaction between DOC and the public. This Act also set out the majority of the Departments responsibilities and roles, as a consequence of Conservation Act all Crown land in New Zealand designated for conservation and protection became managed by the Department of Conservation. All of the land under its control is protected for conservation, ecological, scenic, scientific, historic or cultural reasons. DOC also administers the Nature Heritage Fund, and is responsible for fire control. In addition to its work managing land and providing for recreation in New Zealand and this is particularly a concern amongst some farmers and other industries that are major users of neighbouring land, many of whom have been affected by decisions of the department. After a number of years of falling budgets, in 2013 the department announced it would be slashing 140 jobs, the Department of Conservation moved into a new headquarters, Conservation House, on Manners Street, Wellington in 2006. It is the first green building in New Zealand to be given a 5-star rating, having won numerous environmental awards, including a top 10 placing by Grist Magazine. The site was originally a cinema operated by the Hoyts Group from the mid-1980s until the early 2000s. The Department serves 1 portfolio and 3 ministers, New Zealand has 13 national parks, and a wide number of other conservation lands with varying levels of environmental protection, called the conservation estate in total. About one third of this estate, generally the land considered most valuable, has been protected from mining since 1997 via being listed in Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act 1991, in 1995,14 people died when a viewing platform maintained by the Department of Conservation collapsed. Immediately following the tragedy, all of the departments 106 viewing platforms throughout New Zealand were checked, fifteen platforms were closed for repairs. A Commission of Inquiry that followed the tragedy revealed that the department had acted illegally and negligently in constructing the viewing platform. Many people in New Zealand criticised the government for the situation, and Denis Marshall. In March 2006, an eruption at the Green Lake of Raoul Island. At the exact time of the eruption, Mr Kearney is thought to have been taking measurements of the lake as part of a programme for monitoring volcanic activity. Five other DOC workers, who were living on the island, were forced to evacuate back to New Zealand shortly after the eruption. Searches for Mr Kearney, which have been inhibited by the remote location
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Department of Corrections (New Zealand)
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The Department of Corrections is the public service department of New Zealand charged with managing the New Zealand corrections system. Corrections role and functions were defined and clarified with the passing of the Corrections Act 2004, in early 2006, Corrections officially adopted the Māori name Ara Poutama Aotearoa. The Department of Corrections was formed in 1995, by the Department of Justice Act 1995, prior to this prisons, the probation system and the courts were all managed by the Department of Justice. The intention was to enable the new Department to improve public safety, in 2000, an approach based on enhanced computerised access to information about offenders was tried. The new chief executive of the department, Mark Byers, introduced a $40 million scheme designed to reduce reoffending called Integrated Offender Management, at the time it was described as the biggest single initiative the department has undertaken to reduce reoffending. Seven years later, Greg Newbold said the scheme was an expensive failure, the use of private prisons has also been tried. New Zealands first privately run prison, the Auckland Central Remand Prison opened under contract to Australasian Correctional Management in 2000, in 2004, the Labour Government, opposed to privatisation, amended the law to prohibit the extension of private prison contracts. A year later, the 5-year contract with ACM was not renewed, in 2010, the National Government again introduced private prisons and international conglomerate Serco was awarded the contract to run the Auckland Central Remand Prison. Serco has also given the contract to build and manage a new 960 bed prison at Wiri. The contract with Serco provides stiff financial penalties if its rehabilitation programmes fail to reduce reoffending by 10% more than the Corrections Department programmes, in 2012, the Government revealed it will spend $65 million over the next four years on reducing criminal reoffending. It will go towards additional alcohol and drug treatment, increased education, skills training, Corrections Minister Anne Tolley and Associate Corrections Minister Dr Pita Sharples said the reprioritised operational funding was aimed at reducing reoffending by 25 per cent by 2017. Since it was established, the Department had to cope with a growth in the prison population. Between 1997 and 2011 the number of inmates increased by 70% and, at 190 prisoners per 100,000 of population, five new prisons have been built in the last ten years to accommodate the increase. The Fifth Labour Government built four prisons – at Ngawha housing 420 prisoners, Springhill housing 840, Auckland Womens holding 330 and Milton holding 425 – at a cost of $890 million. When National came to power in 2008, the Department built a new 1,000 bed prison at Mt Eden for $218 million in a private partnership. As at December 2011, New Zealand had 20 prisons and the Department employed over 8,000 staff, the Departments operating budget is over $1 billion a year. As at 31 March 2011, there were 8,755 people in prison in New Zealand, however, the prison population is very fluid and altogether about 20,000 people spend time in prison each year, the vast majority on remand. Nearly 75% of those given a sentence are sentenced to two years or less, and all these are automatically released halfway through their sentence
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Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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Minister for Cultural Affairs Marie Hasler oversaw the transition of functions into the new agency. The Ministry of Cultural Affairs had been created in 1991, prior to this, at the time of its establishment, the responsible minister for the ministry was the Minister for Culture and Heritage. This position is now titled the Minister for Arts, Culture, the ministry advises the government on policies and issues relating to the arts, culture, heritage, sport and recreation, and broadcasting sectors. Creative New Zealand New Zealand Music Commission New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Royal New Zealand Ballet Te Matatini Society Inc and this includes publication in New Zealand history books and e-books, and on a number of websites. Waites number of some 8,500 men was corrected to approximately 13,000 in September 2013, the ministry is also responsible for overseeing dozens of current acts and regulations. Port Nicholson Block Claims Settlement Act 2009 Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi Claims Settlement Act 2005 The ministry serves two portfolios and two ministers, Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand Jock Phillips Official website New Zealand History Online
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New Zealand Customs Service
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New Zealands Minister of Customs is Nicky Wagner MP. The New Zealand Customs service is the oldest government department in New Zealand, formed on 5 January 1840, it pre-dates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi by one month. In 1996, the New Zealand Customs Department was renamed the New Zealand Customs Service, staffing levels sit between 1300 -1500 nationally, with its head office located in Wellington. Customs is also responsible for assessing and collecting Customs duties, excise taxes and Goods and Services Tax on imports and it is second only to the Inland Revenue Department for the amount of revenue it collects for the New Zealand Government. It exercises controls over restricted and prohibited imports and exports, including material, drugs, firearms and hazardous waste. New Zealand Customs is responsible for documentation of all imports and exports, since 1999 all documentation to New Zealand Customs has been electronic. The New Zealand Customs Service works closely with New Zealands other border agencies, the Ministry for Primary Industries and it also works very closely with the New Zealand Police and the Organised and Financial Crime Agency of New Zealand in joint operations involving the importation of drugs. New Zealand Customs established the Trade Single Window in 2013 to provide a place to lodge import and export documents with all of New Zealand Government. Whilst an unarmed agency, some Customs officers are authorized to carry handcuffs and make arrests in relation to offences relating to the importation of drugs and other prohibited goods. New Zealand Customs is also the body of the New Zealand Government responsible for the domestic collection and control of excise tax on tobacco. New Zealand Customs officers continue to make significant seizures of pseudoephedrine, open source media and Customs reporting to government suggests that pseudoephedrine makes up the large majority of Customs seziures. These seizures have resulted in arrests and successful prosecutions by Customs. It was later revealed that Customs seized over a tonne of pseudoephedrine in 2010, Customs officers are based at the main cities in New Zealand, as well as a number of smaller ports. Its headquarters is based in Wellington, New Zealands capital city, Customs also has liaison officers based at the following overseas locations, Canberra, Bangkok, Beijing, Brussels and Washington D. C. Customs conducts national intakes, with the number of intakes per year varying dependent on the needs of the Service, typically each intake will consist of 20 -30 recruits who are referred to as cohorts. Recruiting usually begins with Customs advertising nationwide, calling for applications for persons who meet requisite criteria, applications are then reviewed and accepted or rejected. The majority of applicants are culled at this initial stage and those who are deemed suitable must then pass an interview, police checks and medical test before being offered a space on the next intake. Training consists of a combination of residential and on the job training, initial training usually consists of a five-week residential course at the Royal New Zealand Police College, or other facilities if space is unavailable at the police college
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Ministry of Defence (New Zealand)
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The Ministry of Defence is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the government on defence policy, as well as overseeing the New Zealand Defence Force. The Defence Act, passed on 17 November 1964, established a new Ministry of Defence, under the Act the three Service departments were combined into the new Ministry. The central core of the new Ministry of Defence was the central Defence Office, the Chiefs of Staff Committee was retained, but as a committee of the Defence Council. In 1969-71 moves were implemented to provide a centralised administration in control of all non-operational functions previously within the responsibility of the three services. These changes were embodied in a further Defence Act that came into effect on 1 April 1972, the Service Boards were abolished and their functions divided between the Chiefs of Staff and a central Defence Headquarters that replaced the Defence Office. The disadvantage of the existence of the Service Boards had been one that the one Service could still express its views to the Minister independently of the other Services. Policy formation and planning, logistics and supply, personnel, administration, finance, civil management, each Chief of Staff and their separate Headquarters were now only concerned with operational matters. Both are equally answerable to the Minister of Defence for their individual elements, under the CDF are the three service chiefs who, as the senior officers of their individual services, act as advisors to CDF and provide forces as required. In 1999 James Rofle described in The Armed Forces of New Zealand the then structure of the Ministry of Defence and it numbered only about 70 people in total, with three divisions involved in policy, Policy Division, Acquisition Division, and Evaluation Division. Also part of the structure were Corporate Services Division and Corporate Finance Division, Minister of Defence New Zealand Defence Force Defence Diplomacy Military history of New Zealand James Rolfe, Defending New Zealand, A Study of Structures, Processes and Relationships. Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington,1993
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Ministry of Education (New Zealand)
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The Ministry of Education is the public service department of New Zealand charged with overseeing the New Zealand education system. The Ministry was formed in 1989 when the former, all-encompassing Department of Education was broken up into six separate agencies, the Ministry was established as a result of the Picot task force set up by the Labour government in July 1987 to review the New Zealand education system. The mandate was to review management structures and cost-effectiveness, but did not include curriculum, in nine months the commission received input from over 700 people or organizations. The Picot task force released its report Administering for Excellence, Effective Administration in Education in May 1988, the report was critical of the Department of Education, which it labelled as inefficient and unresponsive. Another recommendation was that boards of trustees were responsible to the Minister of Education. The Picot report became the basis for a drawn out process of reform in New Zealand starting in 1989. When National was elected in October 1990, it carried out a series of educational reviews culminating in the publication Education Policy, Investing in People. This resulted in modifications to the structure of education reform. There has been a series of changes and reassessments that has caused chaos, confusion. In March 2013, Patrick Walsh, the president of the Secondary Principals Association said that despite having about 3000 employees. He said in an era of self-managing schools we have a Ministry that is so large and yet not able to perform in an effective, Walsh said the Ministrys poor performance has been confirmed by a number of reviews conducted by the State Services Commission. The Ministrys role is to raise the level of educational achievement. It is not an education provider and that role is met by individual elected Boards of Trustees for every state school in the country. The ministry works with other agencies including the Education Review Office. Although the Ministrys role is to raise the level of educational achievement, when government changes aspects of its policy on education, the Ministry is responsible for implementing those changes. Sometimes the Ministry ends up in the position of trying to implement political induced changes in education policy to which teachers, parents. Changes introduced by the National Government in 2011–2012 are an example, in order for the Ministry to perform its role effectively, it is dependent on taxpayer funding provided by Government. When government increases funding or requires financial cutbacks, this impacts on the ability of the Ministry to fulfil its role
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Education Review Office (New Zealand)
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Led by a Chief Review Officer - the departments chief executive, the Office has approximately 150 designated review officers located in five regions. These regions are, Northern, Waikato/Bay of Plenty, Central, Southern, the Education Review Office, and the Ministry of Education are two separate public service departments. The functions and powers of the office are set out in Part 28 of the Education Act 1989, ERO reviews the education provided for school students in all state schools, private schools and kura kaupapa Māori. It also reviews the education and care provided for children in early education services. The department also checks that schools are meeting necessary legal requirements, occasionally, special reviews of individual schools are ordered outside of the normal review cycle, which focus on specific areas of concern with a schools management. ERO reports to individual boards of trustees on what they are doing well, in some cases of poor performance or major risks to students, the department may recommend to the Minister and Secretary of Education some form of intervention to the schools management. Reports on individual schools and early services are freely available to the public via EROs website
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Ministry for the Environment (New Zealand)
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The Environment Act 1986 is the foundation law establishing the Ministry. According to their website, the Ministry for the Environment is the New Zealand governments principal adviser on the environment, since 1988, the Ministry of the Environment has coordinated New Zealands interdepartmental policy response to climate change. The Environmental Protection Authority was set up in 2011 to carry out some of the regulatory functions of the MfE as well as other government departments. In 1997 the Ministry released New Zealands first State of the Environment report and this was followed up in 2008 by a second report titled Environment New Zealand 2007. Chapter 13 of this report was removed before final publication but was leaked to the Green Party, after the media reported the existence of the omitted chapter the Ministry placed the contents on its website. The Ministry serves 2 portfolios and 2 ministers
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Government Communications Security Bureau
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Signals intelligence was the responsibility of the Combined Signals Organisation, run by the military. Anti-bugging measures were the responsibility of the Security Intelligence Service, upon its establishment, the GCSB assumed responsibility for these three roles. Officially, the new organisation was part of the Ministry of Defence, in the 1980s, however, information was gradually released, first about the GCSBs security role, and then about its signals intelligence operations. Also in the 1980s, the GCSB was split away from the Ministry of Defence and it was not until 2000, however, that it was decided to make the GCSB a government department in its own right. This decision was implemented through the Government Communications Security Bureau Act 2003, in 2001, the Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection was formed within the GCSB with a mandate to assist in the protection of national critical infrastructure from information borne threats. The National Cyber Security Centre was established within the GCSB in September 2011, the GCSB is considered to be a government department in its own right with its head office in Pipitea St, Wellington. Through its director, the GCSB reports to the holding the Intelligence portfolio. Its main functions are, the collection and processing of intelligence and it has about 300 staff with a range of disciplines including foreign language experts, communications and cryptography specialists, engineers, technicians and support staff. In 2015/16 the budget for the GCSB is $89.6 million, former Green MP Keith Locke says that despite the attention the GCSB received as a result of its illegal surveillance of Kim Dotcom, there has been little public discussion about its value. Locke questions GCSBs suitability for the task of protecting government computers given its security failures, Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Kitteridges report noted the Bureaus problems included under-resourcing and a lack of legal staff. An Inspector General has oversight of the GCSB, in 2013, that role was being filled by former judge, 79-year-old Paul Neazor. He has a secretary as his one and only staff member - compared with the Australian inspector general who has a staff of 12. In her review of the GCSB released in 2013, Rebecca Kitteridge recommended the inspector generals office should be beefed up along Australian lines, the Prime Minister appoints both the director of the GCSB and the Inspector General. Associate Professor of law at Auckland University, Bill Hodge, says the watchdog should be appointed by Parliament rather than by the Prime Minister, former prime minister, Sir Geoffrey Palmer agrees, There needs to be some separation between the inspector and the agency he oversees. The functions of the GCSB include signals intelligence, communications security, anti-bugging measures, the GCSB does not publicly disclose the nature of the communications which it intercepts. It is frequently described by authors, such as Nicky Hager. In 2006, after the death of former Prime Minister David Lange, the report listed a number of countries as targets of GCSB efforts, including Japan, the Philippines, Argentina, France, Vietnam, and many small Pacific island states. It also mentioned United Nations diplomatic traffic, in his book on the GCSB, Nicky Hager says that during the Cold War, the locations and activities of Soviet ships were a major focus of the organisations activities
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Inland Revenue Department (New Zealand)
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Inland Revenue is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the government on tax policy, collecting and disbursing payments for social support programmes, and collecting tax. The Departments Māori name, Te Tari Taake, is a spelling of Te Tari Tāke. Inland Revenue started out as the Land Tax Department in 1878, the Department was renamed the Land and Income Tax Department in 1892 with the central office set up in Wellington. Only in 1952, when the organisation joined with the Stamp Duties Department, was the known as the Inland Revenue Department. The panel was disestablished in 2014 at the completion of the tax reform, in 2015–16, Inland Revenue collected $63. Other services included law and order, housing and community development, environmental protection, defence, transport, since December 2016, the position has been held by Judith Collins. Taxation in New Zealand KiwiSaver Working for Families Official website Policy Advice Division of Inland Revenue Whats Tax, - New Zealand government website on tax
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