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ANZAC Day is a time toreflect and pay tribute to ourANZAC veterans.

More than 2700 New Zea-

landers lost their lives serv-ing as part of the AustraliaNew Zealand Army Corpsthat landed in Gallipoli on 25April 1915.

On ANZAC day we alsoremember those who haveserved in other conflictssince that time.Every day, these brave men

and women strive to uphold

democracy, preserve peace,

and provide aid and support to

people around the world.

We will always mourn ourfallen heroes and those of

other nations. As a Koreanborn Kiwi, I am forever gratefulto the Kayforce who servedduring the Korean conflict.We also pay tribute to thoseheroes are still with us - thosewho served in the SecondWorld War, and places suchas Korea, Malaya, Vietnamand Bosnia.Alongside theseveterans we also rememberthe New Zealanders that con-

Tribute to our ANZAC veterans

PORSE Grey Lynn

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tinue to serve our country -members of the Defence Force.

Anzac Day this year is particu-larly more significant for me

having visited Belgium and par-ticipated in the Last Post Cere-mony under the Menin Gateslast year and visited some of theFlanders Anzac burial sites.

ANZAC is a very special day forall New Zealanders, one weshare with Australia. The AN-ZAC story touches a deep partin all of us. It is a story of sacri-fice and courage, of commit-ment and giving, which reso-

nates deep within us all.

We shall always gather on AN-ZAC day, not to glorify war, but toremind ourselves that we valuewho we are and the freedoms wepossess, and to acknowledge the

courage and sacrifice of thosewho contributed so much in shap-ing the identity of this nation.

ANZAC is a precious day, a dayfor reflection, remembrance and aday to stand as a unified nation.

Melissa Lee MP

Inside this issue:

Tribute to ANZAC

veterans

1

ANZAC day in Mt

Albert

1

Welfare Reformspass into law

2

EEO Commissioner

appointed

2

New Race Relations

Commissioner

2

Ethnic Events 3

Youth MP 2013 3

ANZAC day in Mt Albert

No 19 Squadron, Air Training Corps

In honour of the ghting brave

Pt Chev RSA with Ladies Probus

Pt Chev ANZAC day parade

Bag Pipe playing at Pt Chev RSA

Rick Boreham and Matthew Nanda

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Energy Consumer Trust) and the Chairper-

son of the BNZ Partners, Bay of Plenty.

An exceponal New Zealander who hascontributed incredibly to the ordinary

lives of New Zealanders in her community

work, in governance and chief execuve

roles, most oen as a volunteer. Her

community work has spanned health,

disability and community sport.

The Race Relaons Commissioner is a

member of the Human Rights Commis-

sion. The Commission is an independent

Crown enty which works with govern-

ment and civil society to promote respect

for human rights, encourage harmonious

race relaons and equal employment

opportunies, and to resolve complaints

about discriminaon and related issues.

In March, Dame Susan Devoy DNZM, CBE

was appointed the Race Relaons Com-

missioner and commenced her ve-year

term on 1 April 2013.

She is the rst woman to be appointed to

this role and Im sure she will be excellent.

Here is some background on Dame Susan.

A former world squash champion and

Director of Women Walking Ltd. Dame

Susan is a board member of the Sustaina-

bility Council of New Zealand and a mem-

ber and former Chair of the Halberg Trust.

2000 to 2003 Dame Susan was the Chief

Execuve and Chair of Sport Bay of Plentyand served as a board member of the

Auckland District Health Board (2000-

2003). She is a trustee of TECT (Tauranga

Dame Susan Devoy DNZMDame Susan Devoy DNZMDame Susan Devoy DNZM

Dame Susan will speak at a community

meeting in Mt Albert on Friday 21 June.

Please contact my office for more infor-

mation.

Appointment of EEO CommissionRecently my colleague and friend, Mt Ros-kill based List MP, Dr Jackie Blue was ap-pointed EEO Commissioner for the HumanRights Commission

Jackie has always demonstrated a strongcommitment to advancing the participationof human rights, womens health and equityissues and is currently the Chair of threecross-party groups in Parliament.

Dr Jackie Blue

Jackie holds a BSc from the University ofAuckland and gained her MB ChB fromAuckland Medical School in 1983. Shecame to prominence in the medical sectoras a pioneering breast physician and, in1992, was a founding member of the StMarks Womens Health Centre.

Im sure Jackie will be great. Jackie willtake up office on 4 June 2013.

The changes were introducing will mod-ernise and simplify the welfare system.They will also ensure work expectationsand social obligations are balanced withthe right incentives and support.

This Bill is the second stage of a compre-hensive package of welfare reforms.

Three new benefit types will replace theseven current benefit categories, in addi-tion to the new Youth Payment andYoung Parent Payment introduced in

August last year.

The new categories the Bill creates are:

Jobseeker support for those activelyseeking and available for work;

Sole Parent support for sole parentswith children under 14 years;

Supported Living Payment for people

significantly restricted by sickness,injury or disability.

The legislations also introduces new socialobligations to ensure children in benefit-dependent homes get quality Early Child-hood Educations, are enrolled with a doc-tor, get their Well Child checks and are inschool if they are of school-age.

The law will also require Jobseekers tobe drug-free, and will allow benefits to bestopped for outstanding arrest warrants.The investment approach will target inter-ventions and support to those most atrisk of long

-term welfare dependence.

By investing in people sooner, we canactually start to break that cycle of de-pendence.

Delivering better public services is one ofNationals four key priorities for our se-cond term in Government. Welfare re-form is central to that.

Welfare Reforms Pass into Law

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Snippets of Ethnic eventsWith Dr Cam CalderMP at the AucklandInternational CulturalFestival, Mt Roskill.

With Venerable Abbess Manshin and others at the FoGuang Shan temple attending the Buddha day multi-cultural festival

Attended a New Year concert at Avondale Col-lege, Hela Mihira hosted by the United Sri LankaAssociation.

10th Anniv of NZ Indian Central Assoc Wom-ens Conference Photo courtesy of Office of Ethnic

Nationals priority of delivering betterpublic services is getting results.

Reoffending has been cut by eight percent since Nationals Better PublicServices June 2011 benchmark. Thismeans there are 1,476 fewer repeatoffenders, and more than 5,904 fewer

victims of crime each year.

National has a target of a 25 per centreduction in reoffending by 2017, whichwill result in 18,500 fewer victims eachyear.

Youth crime is also down 14 per centsince the June 2011 benchmark,thanks to the Governments smarterapproach to youth offending.

This decrease is well ahead of theGovernments target of a five per centdrop in youth crime by June 2017.

More information: http://

www.national.org.nz/Article.aspx?

articleId=40781and http://www.national.org.nz/Article.aspx?

articleId=40779

National Policy

Thank you to all the stu-

dents who submitted es-

says for Youth Parliament

2013.

The high calibre of the appli-

cants and quality of the ap-

plications made the decision

very difficult.

I am pleased to announce

my representative for Youth

Parliament 2013 is Kristina

Kim.

Kristina is a member of the

Auckland Council Youth

Advisory Panel, she is also

a Youth Representative on

the Devonport-Takapuna

Local Board, a student rep-

resentative for Westlake

Girls High School PTA

board, and Senior Prefect

and House Captain at

Westlake Girls High School.

Congratulations Kristina!

Youth MP 2013

Supporting young people is a key partof Nationals priority to deliver betterpublic services to New Zealanders.

$59,000 from the Governments Ser-vices for Young People fund, will beallocated across six youth organisa-tions offering diverse services to young

people.

This money will assist these organisa-tions in providing services that includementoring for young people with disa-bilities, entrepreneurial and leadershipskills development, the performing arts,and training for working with youngpeople including those at risk.

These organisations are focused onimproving opportunities for youngpeople, and National is supportingthem in doing this.

More information: http://www.national.org.nz/Article.aspx?

ArticleID=40736

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