🗣️Excerpts from Gallipoli address:

From the distant Pacific Ocean, we arrive with humility upon your land. Our footprints and your footprints are joined forever. The fallen warriors of our people and your people rest together within your ancestral soil. Rest in peace.
 
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-WP

The Deputy Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand are speaking at a dawn service at Gallipoli right now.

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Today we commemorate their sacrifice.

The Foreign Minister was hosted on a Turkish Coast Guard Fast Patrol Boat this morning.

Iconic NZ company Hamilton Jet is the preferred partner of the Turkish Coast Guard - with a contract to supply 200 jet units.

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One month on from our State of the Nation, we've been working hard in Parliament to deliver for all New Zealanders and been on the ground keeping up with the issues concerning kiwis the most. Check out our recap of the State of the Nation 👇

The Minister of Foreign Affairs met with the team from NZ company, Robinson Seismic Operations in Istanbul today, to see NZ seismic strengthening equipment in action.

The Foreign Minister has arrived in Türkiye to represent NZ at Anzac Day commemorations and to undertake bilateral engagements.

The Minister’s first engagement was to thank longtime Chair of the 🇳🇿 - 🇹🇷 Business Council, Mr Emin Hitay.

Homeward bound.

Auckland🇳🇿 ✈️ Dubai🇦🇪
Dubai🇦🇪 ✈️ Cairo🇪🇬
Cairo🇪🇬 ✈️ Warsaw🇵🇱
Warsaw🇵🇱 ✈️ Brussels🇧🇪
Brussels🇧🇪 ✈️ Stockholm🇸🇪
Stockholm🇸🇪 ✈️ Copenhagen🇩🇰
Copenhagen🇩🇰 ✈️ New York🇺🇸
New York🇺🇸 🚆 Washington DC🇺🇸
Washington DC🇺🇸 ✈️ New York🇺🇸
New York🇺🇸 ✈️ Auckland🇳🇿

The Minister was delighted to meet Senator Lindsey Graham.

They discussed:

-Support for Ukraine

-Strategic challenges in the Indo-Pacific

-Deepening trade & economic ties between 🇳🇿 & 🇺🇸

-The beauty of South Carolina

The Minister encouraged the Senator Graham to visit 🇳🇿

Watch the full speech below👇

Foreign Minister Winston Peters has called the situation in Gaza 'an utter catastrophe', telling the United Nations General Assembly in New York that the world needs to act to halt the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

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“We do not accept that Israel can achieve peace and security while taking more and more territory intended for a future Palestinian state. This misguided notion must end.”

The Foreign Minister has told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York today that an immediate ceasefire is needed in Gaza to halt the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. 

Press release ⬇️

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New Zealand First, as part of the coalition government, is restoring the rights of communities to determine whether to introduce Māori wards - fulfilling a commitment made in the New Zealand First coalition agreement.

We promised to restore the right to local referenda on the…

If this is a ‘hate crime’ so is vandalising the Treaty exhibition at Te Papa.

If it is true, then this is the seed of segregation.

We have seen it before in apartheid South Africa, and the segregation days in the United States.

There is no good that could come of this for our country.

It is phenomenal that we not only would accept this as New…

For the third time since April 2020, New Zealand First has defeated the Serious Fraud Office and all those complicit in a malicious attack against a political party going about its lawful business in a lawful manner.

In April of 2020, six months before the 2020 general election,…

New Zealand has recently lost the hosting rights of some major international sporting events including the America’s Cup, the Rugby Championship, Netball World Cup, and the Wellington Sevens. We are now at a huge risk of losing SailGP as well. And it won’t stop there.

The…

As Churchill once said “for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like someone standing in a bucket and trying to lift themselves up by the handle.”

Chris Hipkins’ irrelevance has been highlighted with his lack of understanding of this simple fact.

His terminal plan…

Good but wet day at Tauranga races for the Japan NZ Trophy at Bayley international race day.

Pleasure to meet with Dr Kikuta, Mr Sakamoto and Ms Kikuta representing the Japanese Racing Association.

Racing Tauranga has been racing at Tauranga Racecourse Reserve for 150 years…

Freedom of speech is fundamental to any democracy. We've stopped work on Labour's Hate Speech legislation, the vague and overreaching proposal by the previous government was careless legislating and we’ve stopped it in its tracks.