Media contacts:
Civil Defence and Emergency Management
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Duty Media Phone: 04 494 6951
Policy, Regulatory and Ethnic Affairs
Including Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism, Anti-Spam, Censorship, Gambling, and Local Government:
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Sue Ingram – Phone: 04 494 0584, Mobile: 027 541 4696
Service Delivery and Operations
Including Passports, Births, Deaths, Marriages, Civil Unions, Citizenship, Lottery and other grants:
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Michael Mead – Phone: 04 382 3437, Mobile: 021 245 7451
Service and System Transformation
Including Government Technology Services, Result 10 and Government ICT Strategy and Planning:
- Simon Pleasants – Phone: 04 494 5741, Mobile: 021 248 9853
Information and Knowledge Services
Including the National Library, Archives New Zealand, and Government Information Services:
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Allen Walley – Phone: 04 495 9351, Mobile: 027 384 3009
All other Internal Affairs responsibilities
Including Ministerial and Secretariat Services:
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Tony Wallace – Phone: 04 495 9472, Mobile: 027 440 2667
How we will work with you
The Department’s website includes lots of information giving useful background for stories. You can navigate through the links on the home page but because of the amount of information it may be much easier to use the search engine at the top right hand side of the home page. If you can’t find what you want by using the search engine, please send a note to webmaster@dia.govt.nz and we will make improvements.
Department media staff usually switch their phones to their cell phones when away from their desks, or will return messages promptly. We want to hear from you, and will attempt to deal with your request to meet your deadlines. We often get calls from media about the activities of other government agencies, and are happy to direct your call to the right place.
If you are from Māori language media or media using another language we will try to meet your needs. We can use Language Line to interpret.
Department of Internal Affairs email addresses follow the form: firstname.lastname@dia.govt.nz
News releases
Archives New Zealand
Archives New Zealand news releases
Corporate
Department of Internal Affairs corporate news releases
- Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism news releases
- Anti-Spam Compliance news releases
- Censorship Compliance news releases
- Gambling Compliance news releases
- Government Chief Information Officer news
Documents released by Internal Affairs in relation to Yang LIU:
- The Department's recommendation to the Minister of Internal Affairs that he decline the Application for New Zealand Citizenship, 14 July 2008, for applicant Yang LIU (aka Yongming YAN) (.pdf 7.6mb) This PDF also contains letters of support from Hon. Dover Samuels MP, Pansy Wong MP, Hon Chris Carter, Minister for Ethnic Affairs
- Letter to the Hon Shane Jones from JR Billington QC, 4 August 2008 (.pdf 264k)
Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management
National Library of New Zealand
Office of Ethnic Affairs
See above for Media Contacts (listed by service)
