Speeches 

Tertiary Education - past, present and future

Pete Hodgson

03.10.2008

Pete Hodgson speaks at the annual conference of the NZ University Students Association

Dunedin.

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Hello everybody. For those of you who don't live in Dunedin, I do and so I get t...  more +

NZ Association of Private Education Speech

Maryan Street

03.09.2008

Associate Minister for Tertiary Housing addresses the NZ Association of Private Education

TÄ"nÄ koutou and warm Pacific greetings to you this morning.

NZAPEP President, Karl Yates; members of the NZAPEP Executive; delegates; ladies and gentlemen.

It is a great pleasure for me to be here to open the first full day of your conference.

I have a real passion for tertia...  more +

Speech at the Otago University New Zealand Japan seminar on social supports for developmental disabilities

Pete Hodgson

30.08.2008

Venue: University of Otago, Dunedin Date/time: 3:30pm, Saturday 30th August 2008 It's my pleasure to be here today at this cross-cultural seminar on social supports for developmental disabilities. I'd like to thank the Japan Society for funding the seminar and the travel of the Japanese participants, and I'd like to welcome the Japanese delegates to New Zealand.

This year has been an important one for disability issues, not just in New Zealand, but worldwide. In May a commemorative event at United Nations headquarters in New York celebrated "the entry into force" of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. One of the fast...  more +