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 New Zealand - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
New Zealand is a parliamentary democracy and a Commonwealth Realm.
New Zealand is responsible for the self-governing states of the Cook Islands and Niue and administers Tokelau and the Ross Dependency.
New Zealand's most popular sports are rugby (primarily rugby union but also rugby league), soccer (the most popular sport amongst children), cricket, and netball (the sport with the most players); golf, tennis, rowing and a variety of water sports, particularly sailing.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /new_zealand.htm   (2691 words)

  
 Prime Minister of New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Prime Minister of New Zealand is New Zealand's head of government and is the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the Parliament of New Zealand.
The Prime Minister is regarded by convention as "first among equals" — he or she does indeed hold the most senior post in the administration, but is also required to adhere to any decisions taken by Cabinet.
New Zealand is also one of the few countries in the world to have had two female heads of government, and one of only two countries to have two females heads of government directly succeed the other.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prime_Minister_of_New_Zealand   (729 words)

  
 EH.Net Encyclopedia: New Zealand in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
New Zealand’s banks, which were not used to managing risk in a deregulated environment, scrambled to lend to speculators in an effort not to miss out on big profits.
New Zealand’s economic decline relative to the rest of the OECD was halted, though it was not reversed.
New Zealand was a long way from the world’s economic powerhouses, and it was difficult for its firms to establish and maintain contact with potential customers and collaborators in Europe, North America, or Asia.
www.eh.net /encyclopedia/?article=Singleton.NZ   (3441 words)

  
 Helen Clark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
First elected to the New Zealand House of Representatives in 1981, representing the Mt. Albert electorate, in Auckland, she was one of four women who entered the parliament in that election.
As Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, she formed successive minority coalition governments with the Alliance party (1999), which collapsed in 2002 resulting in an early election, and with Jim Anderton's Progressive Party (2002, with parliamentary supply and confidence from United Future and 'good faith' with the Green Party).
New Zealand has under her leadership pursued a determinedly independent foreign policy, evidenced by the retention of nuclear free status (possibly at the cost of a free trade agreement with the USA) and a refusal to participate in the Iraq invasion without UN sanction.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Helen_Clark   (911 words)

  
 Joint Press Conference with the Rt Hon Helen Clark Prime Minister of New Zealand Langham Hotel, New Zealand - 20 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The relationship between Australia and New Zealand is an old one, it’s a close one, it’s an indissoluble one, and it’s one that is contributed to in a very important way by these discussions.
My job is to enhance relations between New Zealand and Australia, irrespective of who happens to be the Prime Minister of New Zealand and I’ve enjoyed a good working relationship with Helen Clarke, as I did with her predecessors and I think we will leave it at that.
And both, if I may so, New Zealand and Australia have had very high levels of home ownership and one of the reasons for that is the way in which we have, tax wise, treated the family home, so I think it’s not consonant with the sort of things.
www.pm.gov.au /news/Interviews/Interview1248.html   (3009 words)

  
 Jenny Shipley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Right Honourable Jennifer Mary Shipley née Robson (born February 4, 1952), Prime Minister of New Zealand from December 1997 to December 1999, served as New Zealand's first female Prime Minister, and led the centre-right National Party.
Jenny Shipley was born in the southern town of Gore in Southland.
As leader of the governing party, she became Prime Minister on 8 December 1997.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jenny_Shipley   (477 words)

  
 New Zealand Law
New Zealand has a parliamentary system of government closely patterned on that of the United Kingdom and is a fully independent member of the Commonwealth.
Executive authority is vested in a cabinet led by the prime minister, who is the leader of the political party or coalition of parties holding the majority of seats in parliament.
All New Zealand lawyers are on the roll as barristers and solicitors.
jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/newzealand.htm   (535 words)

  
 The soc.culture.new-zealand faq : The Political Scene
It used to be "The Dominion of New Zealand" pursuant to a long-forgotten dream of a kind of federal British empire that one of our early prime ministers (Bill Massey) was keen on, but the "Dominion of" bit was dropped several years ago.
New Zealand shares with Britain and Israel the distinction of being one of the three developed countries that does not have a codified Constitution on the U.S. model.
The leader of the party which commands majority support in parliament is appointed prime minister and he or she nominates the other Ministers of the Crown.
www.enzed.com /faq/b31.html   (1127 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Country profiles | Country profile: New Zealand
European settlement in New Zealand during the 19th century led to the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) between representatives of the British Crown and Maori chiefs.
New Zealand's economy is based largely on agriculture, but manufacturing is of growing importance and the country has a fledgling film industry.
A significant proportion of New Zealand's electricity is generated by hydropower sources and the country has a range of renewable energy sources at its disposal.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1136253.stm   (733 words)

  
 New Zealand Government
New Zealand, in the same boat as Australia, did likewise with the Constitution Act of 1986 and the Imperial Laws Application Act of 1988.
In essence, he argues, the moves by Australia, New Zealand and Canada to simply continue their existing government systems without asking the citizens of the new nations for their views, were akin to building a skyscraper without getting a building permit or planning permission.
New Zealand politicians were even more backward, failing to realise they were legally independent for 27 years, and failing to implement a Constitution right up to the present day.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Arbor/8335   (6571 words)

  
 The New Zealand Government Directory - Logon
Prime Minister Helen Clark today paid tribute to three ministerial colleagues who have announced that they will not be seeking re-election to the Cabinet.
Finance Minister Michael Cullen said that for Air New Zealand and the interests of the country, he was sorry that Ralph was going and that Mr Norris' contribution to the rescue and revival of the company had been enormous.
Prime Minister Helen Clark says that Hon David Benson-Pope is today resuming his responsibilities as Minister of Fisheries and Associate Minister for the Environment, with responsibility for the Resource Management Act Amendment Bill.
www.nzgovtdirectory.com   (3525 words)

  
 Ex-prime minister of New Zealand | The San Diego Union-Tribune
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, architect of the nation's anti-nuclear policy that strained relations with the United States, died yesterday.
Lange, a Labor prime minister from 1984 to 1989, defied the United States and other Western allies in 1985 by banning nuclear arms and nuclear-powered ships from New Zealand territory and waters.
He was 41, the nation's youngest prime minister of the past century.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050814/news_1n14lange.html   (507 words)

  
 New Zealand Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide
New Zealand is a country of rare seismic beauty: glacial mountains, fast-flowing rivers, deep, clear lakes, hissing geysers and boiling mud.
When To Go The weather is never so miserable that there's no point in going to New Zealand: there are things to see and do all year round.
New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, had a lot of help from his countrymen.
www.lonelyplanet.com /destinations/australasia/new_zealand   (311 words)

  
 ABC News: Former New Zealand Prime Minister Dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand Aug 13, 2005 — Former New Zealand prime minister David Lange, architect of the nation's anti-nuclear policy that strained relations with the United States, died Saturday.
Lange, a Labour prime minister from 1984-89, defied the United States and other Western allies in 1985 by banning nuclear arms and nuclear-powered ships from New Zealand territory and waters.
He was 41, the nation's youngest prime minister of the last century.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1034751   (399 words)

  
 Official website of the Prime Minister of New Zealand
The first Premier of New Zealand was Henry Sewell who was appointed to the role on the 14
The terms Premier and Prime Minister were both used from 1869 to the turn of the century but Premier was the more common and official title of the Head of Government.
Richard John Seddon in 1899 started to use the title Prime Minister almost exclusively and his successor in 1906 William Hall-Jones was the first person to be officially appointed to such a position.
www.primeminister.govt.nz /oldpms   (746 words)

  
 New Zealand Women and the Vote: Suffrage and Beyond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For the first time the women of New Zealand have joined with men in choosing members of Parliament, and we have waited with bated breath for the deluge of calamities which it was prognosticated would follow the admission of women into the political arena.'
No women were elected in that 1893 election —; the right to stand for office was not part of the suffrage campaign — and it was not until 1933 that New Zealand gained its first woman member of Parliament, more than a decade after women became entitled to stand for office.
Now, almost 30 per cent of our members of Parliament are women, and New Zealand has the 14th highest level in the world for women's representation in national politics.
www.nzhistory.net.nz /Gallery/Suffragists/index.html   (316 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | New Zealand warns on 'law of the jungle'
The Labour prime minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, told the Guardian that Washington and its allies had created a dangerous precedent by going to war without a UN resolution.
But New Zealand had taken a different view, because of the danger of setting a precedent for ignoring the UN.
"It would be very easy for a country like New Zealand to make excuses and think of justifications for what its friends were doing, but we would have to be mindful that we were creating precedents for others also to exit from multilateral decision making," she said.
www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,948590,00.html   (417 words)

  
 New Zealand - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
CLIMATE: New Zealand has a temperate climate dominated by the east moving anti cyclones that bring clear skies or fog while weather conditions are highly changeable throughout the year.
In 1984 David Lange of the Labor Party became Prime Minister and in 1985 New Zealand banned nuclear weapons and nuclear power ships from its ports, which resulted in the US withdrawing guarantees of security to NZ under the ANZUS treaty and later imposing a trade freeze.
In 1987 Lange was re-elected as Prime Minister and in Aug. 1989 resigned as Labor Party leader and Prime Minister.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/newzeal.htm   (1271 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | New Zealand jails Israeli 'spies'
New Zealand has imposed diplomatic sanctions on Israel over the activities of two alleged members of the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad.
Prime Minister Helen Clark said that such acts by what she called Israeli government agencies were a violation of New Zealand sovereignty.
New Zealand had asked Israel for an explanation and an apology, but had received neither.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3896009.stm   (434 words)

  
 152 The Prime Minister of New Zealand to the Secretary of State for Dominion AffairsRepeated to the Prime Minister of ...
152 The Prime Minister of New Zealand to the Secretary of State for Dominion AffairsRepeated to the Prime Minister of Australia.
Ministerial representatives of the New Zealand Government with the Chiefs of the New Zealand Naval and Air Staffs are at present in consultation with the Australian Government War Council and Chiefs of Staff on problems of mutual defence.
The New Zealand Government note and support the proposal by the Australian Government that General Brett should be appointed Supreme Commander of the Anzac area.
www.nzetc.org /etexts/WH2-3Doc/c5-4.html   (253 words)

  
 Opening Statements by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand at the Joint Press ...
New Zealand undertakes, through the diplomatic relationship it has now established with North Korea, to continue to advocate to North Korea directly that it open up to the outside world and address longstanding issues for Japan, like the abduction issue.
We see enormous potential for New Zealand in the Japanese market: attracting international students, growing the tourism trade (which is of very high value to us), opportunities for niche new economy sectors from biotechnology to information and communications and environmental technologies, and, of course, the interest of Japan in our forestry industry is quite substantial.
Prime Minister Clark: Today I registered that there is an ongoing difference of opinion on those issues and that New Zealand would, of course, prefer to see Japan supporting sanctuaries in the South Pacific for whaling.
www.mofa.go.jp /region/asia-paci/pmv0204/op_0502.html   (2756 words)

  
 The American Chamber of Commerce in New Zealand: Home
It is hoped that new US Ambassador William McCormick will be here to present the Importer of the Year award and the Prime Minister will present the Exporter of the Year awards.
He is one of New Zealand’s finest players of the modern age – a man who came out from under his famous father’s shadow to eventually lead the All Blacks in 10 tests.
Born in New Zealand, Pamela Stephenson is famous for her starring role in ‘Not the Nine O’clock News’ and other TV and film work.
www.amcham.co.nz   (1782 words)

  
 Former PM's - Official website of the Prime Minister of New Zealand
Labour Party Prime Minister from 6 Dec 1935 to 27 March 1940.
He later worked as a labourer in New South Wales from 1983 to 1900 and then moved to Victoria where he was a goldminer, train driver, and bakery manager.
Savage was a major advocate for increased pension and a free health service during this time and in October 1933 became Labour Party Leader after the death of Harry Holland.
www.primeminister.govt.nz /oldpms/1935savage.html   (503 words)

  
 Advisory committees - Encyclopedia of New Zealand
A lawyer and former Labour prime minister of New Zealand (1989–90), Sir Geoffrey Palmer was MP for Christchurch Central from 1979 to 1990.
Lloyd is New Zealand’s expert on penguins and is the author of The Plight of the Penguin, which won the New Zealand Post children’s book of the year for 2002.
Ranginui, whose iwi is Te Whakatōhea, is one of New Zealand’s leading Māori historians, author both of a general history of Māori and of a recent biography of Apirana Ngata.
www.mch.govt.nz /ref/enz/comms.html   (954 words)

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