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3 May, 2012

Speech to Australasian Housing Institute Awards Ceremony: 3 May

Affordable, well-planned housing has a wonderful effect on peoples’ lives. Good housing helps to build vibrant and supportive communities and provide children with a safe, healthy environment in which to to grow up.

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3 April, 2012

Speech to NZ Wind Energy Association Conference

New Zealand is a fortunate country in its range of energy resources: we’ve got minerals, oil and gas, wind, hydro and geothermal in various stages of development – it’s a long and exciting list.

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22 March, 2012

Speech to Energy Management Association 2012 Conference On ‘Smart Cities’

Good morning, and thank you for your invitation to address this conference. I commend you for your choice of theme – Smart Cities – which is so very relevant to the Christchurch rebuild. You’ve assembled a very interesting line-up of speakers.

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6 March, 2012

Speech to New Zealand Downstream Forum: 6 March 2012

This is the first chance that I have had, since taking up the Energy and Resources portfolio, to meet with a cross-section of senior people from the energy industry. It is good to be here.

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