Join us this year at Pukeahu for Wellington Heritage Festival. From astronomy to blueprints, the largest musical instrument to a historic crèche, there are events for everyone! There are events at Pukeahu between 26 October and 13 November.

At 11am on Saturday 21 September 2024 the first national commemoration of New Zealand’s service in Timor-Leste will take place at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul.

Twenty-five years ago, on 20 September 1999, the first New Zealand troops arrived in Timor-Leste (East Timor) as part of a United Nations-sanctioned multinational operation to restore peace and security to the country.

On Monday 16 September we will honour those who served in NZ’s post-Second World War military operations in Malaya & Malaysia. Public who are interested in attending the commemoration, should arrive at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park by 10:45am.

Sport & Recreation Minister Chris Bishop has congratulated New Zealand's Paralympic Team at the conclusion of the Paralympic Games in Paris.

The ‘check-in’ survey seeks to understand the effects of last-year's changes to the domestic component of the New Zealand Screen Production Rebate (NZSPR-NZ). The survey closes 11:59pm 24 September 2024.

The New Zealand Flag should be flown at half-mast all day on Thursday, 5 September 2024 (8am – 5pm or building hours), to mark the burial of Kiingi Tuuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII.

The 2025 Commemorating Waitangi Day Fund is open until Monday 7 October. Up to $300,000 of contestable funding is available for events around the motu that bring communities together to commemorate the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi – The Treaty of Waitangi.

Sport & Recreation Minister Chris Bishop will travel to Paris to support the New Zealand Paralympic Team during the 2024 Paralympic Games – the first time a New Zealand Sport & Recreation Minister has ever attended a Paralympics.