5 September, 2008
The Affordable Housing: Enabling Territorial Authorities Bill aims to give councils tools to stimulate the provision of more affordable housing, where a shortage is identified in their city or district. The Bill is enabling, rather than mandatory. Councils will first have to assess the housing needs of their area and establish that they have a shortage of affordable housing. They would then need to develop an affordable housing policy in consultation with the community.
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5 September, 2008
Notes prepared for Third Reading Speech of the Affordable Housing: Enabling Territorial Authorities Bill.
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3 September, 2008
This year’s conference theme ‘Private Tertiary Education – a new era’ aptly reflects this progress and the path we are all on as we settle into the new way of planning, funding, monitoring and quality assuring tertiary education.
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1 September, 2008
Safety Week is part of an ongoing ACC campaign to educate New Zealanders about the risks in the home and to encourage us all to think about taking some, often quite basic, safety steps to prevent accidents. One in seven New Zealanders will be injured in the home each year.
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1 September, 2008
Research concludes that ACC’s contribution to New Zealand society arises largely from its no-fault and comprehensive features. They say there is strong evidence demonstrating that no-fault schemes are linked with better client outcomes, higher coverage, lower administration and legal expenses and fewer delays in payments.
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1 September, 2008
Too often safety and injury prevention initiatives in the community don't get the recognition they deserve. So it's great to have the opportunity to celebrate the multitude of successes and sing the praises of the people who carry out the hard work usually on not much more than passion.
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29 August, 2008
The home is the most common place for New Zealanders to suffer injury
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28 August, 2008
The government is on the right track with its initiatives to improve housing affordabilty for New Zealanders
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26 August, 2008
Speech at the signing of the Deed of Grant for the $220 million government contribution towards the Wellington City Council housing upgrade.
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22 August, 2008
Hundreds of Northland families are living healthier lives in warmer, drier homes thanks to a joint government and community initiative.
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22 August, 2008
Life has changed for the 665 families that the Healthy Housing Programme in Northland has worked with in the last five years.
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21 August, 2008
Praise for a company which recognises that providing the opportunity to learn literacy and numeracy at work is an important part of supporting their employees to deliver the best service possible to their customers.
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7 August, 2008
Speech delivered to the New Zealand Chemical Industry Council by ACC Minister Maryan Street, on behalf of the Minister of Labour and Minister of the Environment Trevor Mallard
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4 August, 2008
Speech to the award ceremony celebrating the Upskilling Partnership Programme (UPP), designed to assist employees and raise demand for literacy and numeracy skills training in the workplace.
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1 August, 2008
Twenty-six aspiring first home owners have this week been granted pre-approval for a Shared Equity loan, the first group to benefit from the government’s new pilot scheme.
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26 July, 2008
In the space of 16 years, Abbeyfield New Zealand has established ten family-style homes for the elderly all over the country, and has seven more housing projects at various stages of planning and development. Housing New Zealand, through the Housing Innovation Fund, has supported and assisted Abbeyfield along the way.
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24 July, 2008
Address by Associate Tertiary Education Minister Maryan Street to the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology.
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24 July, 2008
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) will receive a capital injection of $8.132 million to build a new Arts and Media Block.
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22 July, 2008
Speech notes prepared for the forum outlining some of the government's initiatives to tackle rental affordability.
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17 July, 2008
Housing Minister Maryan Street and Mana MP Luamanuvao Winnie Laban hosted a community meeting on housing in Porirua last night, providing an opportunity for the local community to engage on issues of importance to them.
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10 July, 2008
The Government is investing more than a million dollars on upgrading Rewarewa Court in New Lynn, West Auckland over the next 12 months.
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10 July, 2008
Considerable progress has been made at the completion of the 90 Day Action Plan to address issues of overcrowding and substandard accommodation in South Auckland boarding houses.
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8 July, 2008
Ministers welcome the Health Select Committee report on Ambulance Services as an important step forward.
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5 July, 2008
Maryan Street addresses the national conference held at the Manukau Institute of Technology.
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1 July, 2008
Under the two year pilot scheme, announced in May and launching on 2 July, Housing New Zealand will provide the interest-free Shared Equity loan and Kiwibank will provide the home loan
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28 June, 2008
Maryan Street attends the official opening of Talbot and Kotuku Parks.
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28 June, 2008
Talbot Park in Glen Innes, Auckland, wins the top urban design award at the Property Council’s annual prizegiving. Talbot Park has also received top honours at other significant industry awards ceremonies since its completion.
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26 June, 2008
More than 400,000 workers in casual and seasonal employment stand to gain improved accident compensation cover if they are injured under legislation passed tonight. The legislation will also ensure employees who develop a mental injury after being exposed to a sudden traumatic event during the course of their work will in future be entitled to ACC.
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17 June, 2008
More than 400,000 casual and seasonal workers -- about 20% of the workforce -- to benefit
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17 June, 2008
The second reading speech for the bill which continues the government’s commitment to a fair and sustainable ACC scheme.
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