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Responsibilities include protecting and advancing New Zealand’s export interests.

Responsibilities include funding, heritage protection, and support for national arts organisations.

Responsibilities include oversight of the management of remand, community, and custodial sentences and orders, and policy to assist the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders.

Responsibilities include leading New Zealand's anti-nuclear stance and the implementation of the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.

Responsibilities include regulation of the racing industry and betting services.

Responsibilities include ensuring that rural communities can thrive in the face of emerging challenges, providing a rural perspective in government decisions, and improving the resilience of rural communities (adverse events and mental wellness support).

Responsibilities include leading the government's commitment to re-entry to Pike River.

Responsibilities include leading the policy and strategic direction for the immigration system, certifying immigration instructions which set the rules and criteria for the grant of visas and entry permission, and decision-making in regard to individual...

Responsibilities include oversight of the management of the Crown mineral estate, allocation and management of petroleum and mineral permits, management of relevant geoscience data, ensuring well-functioning and competitive energy markets, promoting...

Responsibilities include protecting and promoting the productivity, sustainability and export performance of New Zealand's agricultural sector.

Responsibilities include investment in transport infrastructure and services, regulation, and developing the transport system to maximise economic and social benefits while minimising harm.

Responsibilities include overall climate change policy direction, including the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme and targets for emissions reduction.

Responsibilities include setting expectations and priorities for SOEs.

Responsibilities include supporting and promoting tourism.

Responsibilities include early childhood education, primary and secondary schooling, and tertiary education.

Responsibilities include being the senior Law Officer of the Crown with principal responsibility for the government’s administration of the law, the principal legal adviser to the government, the principal plaintiff or defendant on behalf of the...

Responsiblities include the use and protection of the environment, including the management of risks.

Responsibilities include promoting conservation of the natural and historic heritage of New Zealand.

Responsibilities include the overall functioning and operation of the health system, community health, health workforce, aged care, and mental health services.

Responsibilities include coordinating and providing oversight in the area of child poverty reduction.

Responsibilities include reducing crime and victimisation, sentencing, parole, and bail policy, domestic and international criminal law, family law, youth justice, legal aid and access to justice, enforcement and protection of civil rights and interests...

Responsibilities include the overall working of New Zealand’s tax system.

Responsibilities include corporate law and governance, financial markets, competition policy, consumer policy, protecting intellectual property, and trade policy and international regulatory cooperation.

Introduction 1Following the general election on 17 October 2020, the Leader of the Labour Party has announced that she is able to lead a government that has the support of a majority of the House. 2In accordance with the convention on caretaker...

Responsibilities include ensuring the delivery of critical infrastructure for New Zealand, and for the New Zealand Infrastructure Plan.

Responsibilities include ensuring the Crown meets its Treaty settlement commitments, providing strategic leadership and advice on contemporary Treaty issues, ensuring the engagement of public sector agencies with Māori is meaningful, brokering solutions...

Responsibilities include leadership of executive government (including chairing Cabinet and overseeing the government's general policy direction), and being the principal adviser to the Sovereign and to the Sovereign's representative, the Governor-...

Responsibilities include oversight of the support services provided to Ministers and for official visits and national commemorative events.

Responsibilities include oversight of the treaty settlement process.

Introduction 1This circular provides practical guidance for Ministers[1] and departments on implementing the cooperation agreement between the Labour Party and the Green Party entered into when the government was formed following the 2020 general...

Responsibilities include the management of New Zealand's biosecurity system, border risk management, and domestic pest and pathway management.

Responsibilities include passports, citizenship, births, deaths and marriages, National Library and Archives New Zealand, regulation of gambling, censorship, fire services, and setting the policy direction for all-of-government ICT.

Behavioural insights involves the study of human behaviour, often drawing on empirical research in fields including economics, psychology and sociology. Email Dr Marcos Pelenur at Marcos.Pelenur@eeca.govt.nz to be included in 'community of practice...

Quality commissioning is the starting point for producing quality policy advice.

Communicating advice effectively to a decision-maker relies on the art of good story telling. External Resources New Zealand Institute of Economic Research's central government masterclasses External Conversation trackers and presentations Nikita...

Good quality engagement by government can solve complex problems, can lead to better solutions and build enduring relationships with individuals and groups in the community. External Engagement Resources Guidelines for engagement with Māori Department...