Closing the gaps

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Early life MP for Mount Albert Electoral history Leader of the Labour Party 1993 leadership election 1996 leadership election Leader of the Opposition Shadow Cabinet "Closing the gaps" Prime Minister of New Zealand Fifth Labour Government "Anti-smacking law" Corngate Cullen Fund Foreshore and seabed controversy Helengrad KiwiSaver Working for Families Administrator of the UN Development Programme 2016 UN Secretary-General selection General elections 1996 1999 2002 2005 2008 Cultural depictions On the Conditions and Possibilities of Helen Clark Taking Me as Her Young Lover

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"Closing the Gaps" was the name given to an official New Zealand government policy of assisting socially disadvantaged ethnic groups, particularly Māori and Pacific Islanders, through specially targeted social programmes. The phrase came to prominence as a slogan of the Labour Party in the year 1999 election.

Shortly after the Labour Party came to power in late 1999, the term quietly disappeared from current official documents. Opposition politicians observed that the new government still had a "Closing the Gaps" policy objective, but no longer referred to the policy by that name.

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