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Minister For Oceans And Fisheries
The Minister for Oceans and Fisheries is a Ministers in the New Zealand Government, minister in the New Zealand Government responsible for the management of New Zealand's fisheries, including aquaculture, and for oceans policy. The present minister is Shane Jones, a member of the New Zealand First party. Responsibilities The Minister oversees Fisheries New Zealand, a business unit of the Ministry for Primary Industries (previously, the Ministry of Fisheries (New Zealand), Ministry of Fisheries). The Minister has responsibility for legislation related to fisheries, including the Fisheries Act 1996, the Māori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act, Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act 2004, the Maori Fisheries Act 2004 and the Treaty of Waitangi (Fisheries Claims) Settlement Act 1992. History The position was established in 1977 during the Third National Government of New Zealand, Muldoon government. Previously, responsibility for fisheries was exercise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act
Aquaculture started to take off in New Zealand in the 1980s. It is dominated by mussels, oysters and salmon.FAO:National Aquaculture Sector Overview: New ZealandFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. In 2007, aquaculture generated about NZ$360 million in sales on an area of 7,700 hectares. $240 million was earned in exports.Aquaculture in New Zealand aquaculture.govt.nz In 2006, the aquaculture industry in New Zealand developed a strategy aimed at achieving a sustainable annual billion NZ dollar business by 2025. In 2007, the government reacted by offering more support to the growing industry. __TOC__ Overview [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Moyle
Colin James Moyle (born 18 July 1929) is a former politician of the New Zealand Labour Party who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1963 to 1976 and again from 1981 to 1990. He was a Government minister in the Third Labour and Fourth Labour Governments. He was a close confidant of Bill Rowling during Rowling's short premiership. In the Fourth Labour Government, as Minister of Agriculture, Moyle oversaw the removal of farming subsidies and the establishment of a fisheries quota system. In late 1976, Prime Minister Robert Muldoon accused Moyle in Parliament of having been questioned by the police on suspicion of homosexual activities, which were then illegal in New Zealand. After changing his story several times, Moyle resigned from Parliament, although he was re-elected four years later. Muldoon may have viewed Moyle as a future Labour leader and potential rival, and sought to discredit him. Early and personal life Moyle was born on 18 July 1929 in Thames. His parents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan MacIntyre Greg Tate (crop)
Duncan may refer to: People * Duncan (given name), various people * Duncan (surname), various people * Clan Duncan * Justice Duncan (other) Places * Duncan Creek (other) * Duncan River (other) * Duncan Lake (other), including Lake Duncan Australia *Duncan, South Australia, a locality in the Kangaroo Island Council *Hundred of Duncan, a cadastral unit on Kangaroo Island in South Australia Bahamas *Duncan Town, Ragged Island, Bahamas ** Duncan Town Airport Canada * Duncan, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island * Duncan Dam, British Columbia * Duncan City, Central Kootenay, British Columbia; see List of ghost towns in British Columbia United States * Duncan Township (other) * Duncan, Arizona * Duncan, Indiana * Duncan, Iowa * Duncan, Kentucky (other) * Duncan City, Cheboygan, Michigan * Duncan, Mississippi * Duncan, Missouri * Duncan, Nebraska * Duncan, North Carolina * Duncan, Oklahoma * Duncan, South Carolina * Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan MacIntyre (New Zealand Politician)
Brigadier Duncan MacIntyre (10 November 19158 June 2001) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He served as the eighth deputy prime minister of New Zealand from 1981 to 1984 under Prime Minister Robert Muldoon. Biography Early life and career MacIntyre was born at Hastings on 10 November 1915. He was the eldest of six children between Esther Mary Bell and the Scottish-born Archibald MacIntyre, a farmer near Bridge Pā. He attended school in Hastings before being sent by his father to Scotland where he attended Larchfield School. He returned to New Zealand where he received his secondary school education at Christ's College, Christchurch. He started work in 1933 as a farm cadet and from 1936 managed a farm at Punakitere, Northland until 1939. MacIntyre married Diana Grace Hunter, the daughter of a Hawke's Bay farming family on 10 January 1939 in Havelock North. The two were to have three daughters and two sons. In 1939, at the outbreak of the World War II, he lef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Muldoon
Sir Robert David Muldoon (; 25 September 19215 August 1992) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand, from 1975 to 1984, while leader of the National Party. Serving as a corporal and sergeant in the army in the Second World War, Muldoon completed his training as an accountant and returned to New Zealand as its first fully qualified cost accountant. He was first elected to the House of Representatives at the 1960 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamaki, representing the National Party. In this time of political stability, Muldoon served successively as Minister of Tourism (1967), Minister of Finance (1967–1972), and Deputy Prime Minister (1972). Over this time he built up an informal but solid backing amongst National's mostly rural right faction, which he labelled "Rob's Mob"—possibly in imitation of gangs such as the Mongrel Mob. National were then expelled from office in 1972, beginning the tenure of La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Anderton's Progressive Party
Jim Anderton's Progressive Party (formed in 2002 as the Progressive Party and renamed after its founder in 2005) was a New Zealand political party generally somewhat to the left of its ally, the Labour Party. The party was established when Jim Anderton and his supporters left the Alliance party. The Progressive Party held at least one seat in Parliament from 2002 to 2011 because of Anderton's victories in the electorate of Wigram. The party did not contest the 2011 general election, and was de-registered at its own request in 9 March 2012 . Policies Economically, the party was left of centre, and placed particular attention on economic development. It had a particular focus on the creation of jobs, and said it was committed to achieving full employment. Among its other policy objectives were free education and free healthcare, four weeks of annual leave from work, an "anti-drugs" policy, and cutting the corporate tax rate to 30%. It also advocated an abolition of the Goods a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand National Party
The New Zealand National Party ( mi, Rōpū Nāhinara o Aotearoa), shortened to National () or the Nats, is a centre-right political party in New Zealand. It is one of two major parties that dominate contemporary New Zealand politics, alongside its traditional rival, the New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party. National formed in 1936 through amalgamation of conservative and Liberalism, liberal parties, Reform Party (New Zealand), Reform and United Party (New Zealand), United respectively, and subsequently became New Zealand's second-oldest extant political party. National's predecessors had previously formed United–Reform Coalition, a coalition against the growing labour movement. National has governed for five periods during the 20th and 21st centuries, and has spent more List of government formations of New Zealand, time in government than any other New Zealand party. After the 1949 New Zealand general election, 1949 general election, Sidney Holland became the first Prime M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Labour Party
The New Zealand Labour Party ( mi, Rōpū Reipa o Aotearoa), or simply Labour (), is a centre-left political party in New Zealand. The party's platform programme describes its founding principle as democratic socialism, while observers describe Labour as social-democratic and pragmatic in practice. The party participates in the international Progressive Alliance. It is one of two major political parties in New Zealand, alongside its traditional rival, the National Party. The New Zealand Labour Party formed in 1916 out of various socialist parties and trade unions. It is the country's oldest political party still in existence. Alongside the National Party, Labour has alternated in leading governments of New Zealand since the 1930s. , there have been six periods of Labour government under ten Labour prime ministers. The party has traditionally been supported by working class, urban, Māori, Pasifika, immigrant and trade unionist New Zealanders, and has had strongholds in i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Conservation (New Zealand)
__NOTOC__ The Minister of Conservation is a minister in the government of New Zealand with responsibility for the Department of Conservation. The current minister is Poto Williams.https://dpmc.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2022-06/ministerial-list-14-june-2022.pdf The Loder Cup awarded for conservation is presented by the minister. List of Ministers ;Key See also *Conservation in New Zealand References External linksThe Beehive– Minister of Conservation portfolio {{DEFAULTSORT:Minister Of Conservation (New Zealand) Conservation Conservation is the preservation or efficient use of resources, or the conservation of various quantities under physical laws. Conservation may also refer to: Environment and natural resources * Nature conservation, the protection and manageme ... Nature conservation in New Zealand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister For Primary Industries (New Zealand)
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI; mi, Manatū Ahu Matua) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with overseeing, managing and regulating the Agriculture in New Zealand, farming, Fishing in New Zealand, fishing, Food safety in New Zealand, food, Animal welfare in New Zealand, animal welfare, Biosecurity in New Zealand, biosecurity, and Forestry in New Zealand, forestry sectors of New Zealand's primary industries. In December 2017, Agriculture, Food Safety and Biosecurity Minister Damien O'Connor announced that the Ministry of Primary Industries would be reorganised into four entities, Fisheries New Zealand, Forestry New Zealand, Biosecurity New Zealand and New Zealand Food Safety, within the one ministry. History Formed in April 2012, MPI is a merger of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (New Zealand), Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), the Ministry of Fisheries (New Zealand), Ministry of Fisheries (MFish), and the New Zealand Food Safety Auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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