Australian High Commission

New Zealand

High Commission address: 72-76 Hobson Street, Thorndon, Wellington - Telephone: +64 (0)4 473 6411 - Fax: +64 (0)4 498 7135

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Latest News

The Australian Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong MP, has released the Government’s Green Paper on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. It contains proposals for a new plan to tackle climate change by reducing carbon pollution.

The Minister for Trade, Simon Crean, has welcomed the release of revised WTO negotiating texts - on agriculture and industrial products - as an important step towards concluding the Doha Round of world trade negotiations.

Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard, led a delegation of Australian ministers, which included Trade Minister Hon Simon Crean MP and forty business leaders, to the 2008 Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum held in Wellington 13/14 June. Ms Gillard gave opening remarks on Priorities For The New Australian Government.

The Prime Minister, the Hon Kevin Rudd, MP, has announced that Japan will join Australia as Co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.

The Australian Ministerial Council on Consumer Affairs on 23rd May in Auckland agreed to a significant reform of product safety regulatory arrangements in Australia. It issued a communiqué which it says the reform delivers on COAG’s commitment to address overlap and inconsistency between jurisdictions in the existing product safety regulatory arrangements.

Mr Crean, MP has welcomed the strong commitment expressed by ministers to conclude the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) negotiations at their next meeting in August in Singapore.

Events

World Youth Day (WYD) is being held in Sydney, Australia from 15 - 20 July 2008. Information about times and details of the major events at World Youth Day has now been confirmed.

Tourism Australia has set up a facebook site for WYD.The page is updated daily and contains useful information to help those attending make the most of their time in Australia for WYD08 such as event listings, images from around the country and a list of top travel locations. Tourism Australia has also refreshed its homepage so that it now features Australian events, including WYD.

There is a strong line-up of Australian films in the 2008 New Zealand International Film Festivals which run in Auckland between July 10-27 and in Wellington between July 18 - August 3. The festival also runs in 14 other cities around the country. The films are Donkey in Lahore, Great Australian Albums: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Murder Ballads, Night, Not Quite Hollywood, River of No Return and Son of a Lion. For information on the films, including screening times click here.

Job Vacancies at the High Commission

The High Commission has no vacancies at present