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Five Country Ministerial 2026: Communiqué

We, the Home Affairs, Interior and Security Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States (the ‘Five Countries’) convened under Australia’s Chairmanship, in Sydne

The New Zealand Government has released New Zealand’s Cyber Security Strategy 2026 - 2030.

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and the Ministry for the Environment have developed a Long-term Insights Briefing on a nationally important topic: building New Zealand's long-term resilience to hazards, such as severe weather, pandemic

Five Country Ministerial 2025: Communiqué

We, the Home Affairs, Interior and Security Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States (the ‘Five Countries’) convened in person under the United Kingdom’s cha

How can New Zealand build long-term resilience to hazards, such as severe weather, pandemics, volcanic activity, and earthquakes?

NEMA hosting to transfer to DIA in 2025

The hosting responsibilities for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) will transfer from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) to the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) from

Five Country Ministerial Communiqué

We, the Home Affairs, Interior, Security and Immigration Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States (the ‘Five Countries’) remain steadfast in our commitment to

Preamble

We, the Home Affairs, Interior, Security and Immigration Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States (the ‘Five Countries’) , recognize the importance of drawing in the voices and experien

The Five Countries have a long and proud tradition of welcoming migrants and providing protection to the most vulnerable people across the world.

A one-off fund to provide financial support for community-based initiatives that build resilience against the harms of disinformation has been est

Aotearoa New Zealand’s first National Security Strategy has been launched on 4 August 2023.

Secure Together Tō Tātou Korowai Manaaki will guide New Zealand’s approach to national security over the coming years. 

Nine specialists from across New Zealand have been appointed to a multi-stakeholder group to provide advice to Government on countering disinformation.

Recent events, such as Cyclone Gabrielle, have demonstrated the interconnected nature of New Zealand’s infrastructure system, where outages in one sector can quickly cascade across the entire system.

The 2023 edition of the Cabinet Manual has been published.

Rachel Hayward has been appointed Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council.

The appointment was effective from 2 November 2022.

The Minister of Health, Andrew Little, and Associate Minister of Health, Peeni Henare, announced appointments to the boards of interim entities, the Māori Health Authority and Health New Zealand.

From July 1 2020, the COVID-19 All-of-Government Response Group has formally become a business unit of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

The Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy was launched on 29 August 2019, at Kaitao school in Rotorua. The Strategy sets out a shared understanding of what’s important for child and youth wellbeing, what government is doing, and how others can help.

The Royal Commission invites current and former employees and contractors of the following State sector agencies to approach it if they believe that they can assist its inquiry:

A draft disposal schedule for the NZSIS, GCSB, and National Security Group of DPMC is open for feedback from 19 November-10 December 2018.

A Performance Improvement Framework (PIF) follow-up review of the New Zealand Intelligence Community has been released.

The report titled Lessons from the Canterbury earthquake sequence provides a whole-of-government perspective on the lessons from the Government’s recovery efforts from the Canterbury earthquake disaster.

The Minister supporting Greater Christchurch Regeneration (Nicky Wagner) released the ChristChurch Cathedral Reinstatement Offer today.

More information on the Cathedral Working Group website

Submissions close on 7 July for the Ministerial Review: Better Responses to Natural Disasters and Other Emergencies in New Zealand.

At the Massey University National Security Conference on 30 August 2016, Howard Broad gave the following speech.

Howard Broad is the Deputy Chief Executive of the Security and Intelligence Group of DPMC

The New Zealand Intelligence Community (NZIC) received new operating and capital funding of $178.7 million over four years as part of Budget 2016.

Greater Christchurch Group has released the report of a survey conducted by CERA of more than 2000 property owners who accepted a Crown offer to evaluate wellbeing outcomes, and to determine whether the Crown's recovery objectives had been met.  The survey and report were carried out by Nielsen Research.

Future Christchurch Update is a monthly publication of information and updates on the greater Christchurch recovery and regeneration.

It’s produced jointly by CERA and Christchurch City Council, and delivered to over 178,000 letterboxes across greater Christchurch.

From May 2016, it’ll be produced by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC), in partnership with Christchurch City Council.

1 April 2016

Experienced public servant Kelvan Smith has been appointed Director of the Greater Christchurch Group of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC).

The 2015 Independent Review of Intelligence and Security was tabled in Parliament on 9 March 2016.

17 November 2015

Michelle Mitchell has been appointed Director of the Canterbury Group within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC).