Media Releases
From our Ministers
For the latest media releases from our Ministers see their pages on the Beehive website:
- Hon Christopher Finlayson (Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage)
- Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman (Minister of Broadcasting)
From the Ministry
Online Events Calendar Partnership Delivers Results17 March 2010
Launch of Te Ara Theme: ‘the Economy and the City’10 March 2010
Record Number of Kapa Haka Groups in Rotorua5 March 2010
Te Ara wants your stories of country schools3 February 2009
Updated History of New Zealands Flags1 February 2009
'Super' Website to Promote Events22 December 2009
Santa Parades - Past and Present17 December 2009
NZHistory.net.nz Publication and Online Resource on the Battle of River Plate17 December 2009
2010 Awards in History Announced10 December 2009
Funding for Waitangi Day 2010 Commemorative Events26 November 2009
Armistice Day commemorations10 November 2009
What’s in a name?13 August 2009
Digital futures discussion document11 August 2009
Funding for 2010 Waitangi Day Activities6 August 2009
Silent oral history signs the way ahead31 July 2009
Culture is extremely important to our sense of national identity21 July 2009
New appointments to Film Commission13 July 2009
New feature ‘Antarctica’ on nzhistory.net.nz9 July 2009
Ministry for Culture and Heritage on sentencing2 July 2009
Peter Jackson to review Film Commission18 June 2009
Appointment to the Broadcasting Standards Authority17 June 2009
Appointment of new Chief Executive28 April 2009
Ministry for Culture and Heritage wins hearing24 April 2009
Media advisory for Anzac Day24 April 2009
Government concludes broadcasting regulatory review7 April 2009
Calling all Oral Historians24 March 2009
Minister releases cultural employment report29 February 2009
West Coast winners23 February 2009
New Zealand War Dead Honoured in South Africa19 February 2009
Waitangi Day 2009 Commemorative Events14 January 2009
Career Girls star in Te Ara’s latest entry21 November 2008
Ninetieth Anniversary of the Influenza Pandemic14 November 2008
Cultural Well-Being now online29 September 2008
History of the main trunk line07 August 2008
Eight new non-commercial FM radio licences throughout New Zealand04 August 2008
New Zealand’s Olympic Story1 August 2008
Air quality tests at Mt Cook School show traffic fume levels within guidelines7 July 2008
Oral History awards for 20087 July 2008
Te Ara Wanganui entry launch 10 June 2008
Matariki
4 June 2008
VietnamWar.govt.nz launch
29 May 2008
Music Month1 May 2008
Military Mascots 29 April 2008
Wahine Disaster 40th anniversary31 March 2008
NZ Tunnellers Museum in France Commemorates WW1 Kiwis18 February 2008
Cook Strait ferries on NZHistory.net.nz 1 February 2008
Information on Waitangi Day and events
31 January 2008
NZ Memorial in London Wins Top Award
13 December 2007
Gannet pie under the Antipodean holly?
13 December 2007
NZ Memorial in London Wins Top Design Award
09 October 2007
Passchendaele website
02 October 2007
History Awards for 2007
05 December 2006
NZLive.com
Scoops TUANZ Business Internet Award (NZLive site)
21 November 2006
Earth, Sea and Sky theme launched
Earth, Sea and Sky, the second major release of Te Ara, the digital Encyclopedia of New Zealand has just been launched.
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June 2006
Te Ara (www.teara.govt.nz) has launched two new features about New Zealand’s
distinctive places. The Bay of Plenty feature was released in Tauranga
and Whakatāne on 5 and 6 December 2005. One week later, on 12 and 13
December, the Northland feature was launched in Whāngārei and Kaikohe.
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December 2005
Remembering the 1918 flu pandemic
Talk of Asian Bird Flu has revived memories of New Zealand's worst disease outbreak, the lethal influenza pandemic of 1918. A new web feature on NZHistory.net.nz provides an overview of the affect of the pandemic on this country and includes a series of sound recordings from people who lived through it.
11 October 2005
When disaster strikes - what's your story?
If you've experienced a natural disaster, such as an earthquake, flood, volcanic eruption, tsunami or a landslide then Te Ara - The encyclopedia of New Zealand is interested in your story.
01 August 2005
Come on home: the end of the Second World War
Sixty years ago New Zealanders celebrated the end of the Second World War and our boys, and girls, came home from six years of fighting and hardship. A series of four talks running through August will commemorate the end of the war and consider the emotional, social and political impact it had on New Zealand.
29 July 2005
Awards in Oral History announced
The panel for this year's Awards in Oral History have selected 17 oral history projects out of over 60 applicants to receive funding support. Projects span the length and breadth of the country from Lake Omapere in the far north to Dunedin in the south, and way down south to Antarctica.
19 July 2005
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage has launched a new website, www.anzac.govt.nz, focusing on the history, traditions and ceremonies associated with Anzac Day, with stunning, interactive panoramas of significant sites on the Gallipoli peninsula and a searchable database of New Zealanders who died during the campaign.
19 April 2005
Marking ninety years since Gallipoli landings
The 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings is being marked in Wellington with an event on Monday 18 April organised by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, at which the Prime Minister Helen Clark will launch a Gallipoli guidebook, an Anzac website and a Turkish documentary film.
13 April 2005
All washed up – what's your beachcombing story?
The team at Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand are asking for stories about things people have found washed up on the beaches of New Zealand, to include in the next theme of the online encyclopedia which is entitled "Earth, Sea and Sky".
22 March 2005