✨ Government Address
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It will take seriously its duty to protect our most vulnerable citizens.
It will take seriously the importance of the obligations and ties we each, as citizens and as communities, have to each other.
Most importantly, it will seek to give all New Zealanders the confidence that this is a country where you can get ahead – and that the State, through its agencies and through this Parliament, should reward rather than discourage effort.
My Government views economic growth as the platform upon which a stronger New Zealand will be built. It views political leadership from this Parliament as essential to achieving that goal. But it is under no illusion about who the real builders of a stronger economic future will be.
The true builders of that future are not sitting in this Chamber today.
The true builders of that future are the millions of New Zealanders working in the homes, the businesses, the industries of our country.
It is they who make this country strong.
It is they who have placed their trust in us their Parliament.
And it is they, our fellow New Zealanders, that my Government will ever seek to serve.
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Speech from the Throne at the State Opening of Parliament
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🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationGovernor-General, Parliament, State Opening, Economic Growth, Citizenship, Vulnerable Citizens, Political Leadership