New Zealand Gazette – 1982 – No. 40

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✨ Government Policy Speech



The monetary, fiscal, and incomes policy adopted by the Government
will support the medium-term growth plan by maintaining steady
downward pressure on domestic prices.

HONOURABLE MEMBERS, in its dealings abroad the Government will
pursue policies designed to keep New Zealand safe, and to increase our
overseas earnings.

In these uncertain times the Government is determined that New
Zealand should continue to play its part in helping to maintain
international stability. The recent despatch overseas of members of our
armed forces on a difficult but essential mission to assist peace making
in the Sinai is evidence of the Government’s commitment to this
objective.

Earning more income overseas through the export of goods and services
is the key to faster economic growth. It is the Government’s intention,
therefore, to continue to accord high priority to the promotion of New
Zealand external trading interests.

The Government will use meetings at Ministerial level of the OECD
and the GATT to focus international attention on the need for decisive
measures to improve access conditions and establish better trading
opportunities for agricultural products.

The Government will continue its close contacts with New Zealand’s
major trading partners, particularly the European Community, the
United States, and Japan, with the object not only of retaining existing
access levels but expanding them further. Discussions with the
European Community on the level of New Zealand butter access for
1983 and beyond will be of special importance.

New Zealand has a particular commitment to the South Pacific which,
along with South-east Asia, will continue to receive the major share of
our development assistance. New Zealand’s island partners will also
continue to be assisted through the Pacific Islands industrial
development scheme.

HONOURABLE MEMBERS, planning for the future is an essential process.
This is being carried out in both the private and public sectors, not just
for a few major projects but also for developments of different scales.



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🏛️ Government Speech on Constitutional and Economic Matters (continued from previous page)

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Economic Policy, Inflation, Unemployment, Wage Bargaining, Taxation, Trade, Government Expenditure, International Competitiveness, Australia-New Zealand Relations