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• Read our website in te reo Māori

  As part of our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and te ao Māori, some of our pages are now available in te reo Māori. They include Check Your Eligibility , Qualifying Service Explained , and the...

• Support for families of those with service in Viet Nam

  Who can get this You may be able to get support if you’re related to someone with qualifying operational service in Viet Nam. You must be their: spouse  partner, or child Qualifying service...

• More entitlements and support for children of Jayforce and Mururoa veterans

  Veterans’ Affairs has moved to ensure access to more support for the children of Jayforce and Mururoa veterans. Nuclear radiation is a risk that New Zealand service people have been exposed to on...

• The Coastwatchers of Tarawa, Kiribati

  In October 1942, seventeen New Zealand coastwatchers on the Tarawa atoll, in the Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati) were murdered by the Japanese occupiers. Coastwatchers were military and civilian...

• Lives lost during pandemic more than 100 years ago honoured by NZDF

  When members of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles returned to Gallipoli in 1918 to recover and bury their dead, they faced a new enemy in the form of influenza. More than 104 years on and in the shadow...

• VAB Report: Recognition of service people through burial and memorialisation

  This report sets out the principles that the Veterans' Advisory Board (Board) considers should underpin the recognition of service in New Zealand through the burial and memorialisation of service...

• Donate objects to the National Army Museum

  Since the 1970s, people have been entrusting their tangible history of service in the New Zealand Army to the National Army Museum Te Mata Toa (NAM). The museum’s collection is almost entirely...

• A tewhatewha design for Veterans' Affairs

  To honour our Māori veterans and our korero with them, Veterans’ Affairs has created a tewhatewha-inspired design. A tewhatewha (teff-ah teff-ah) is a long-handled fighting staff that was used in...

• Our tewhatewha Māori design (Tohu)

  To honour our Māori veterans and our korero with them, Veterans’ Affairs has created a tewhatewha-inspired design. A tewhatewha (teff-ah teff-ah) is a long-handled fighting staff that was used in...

• Veterans' Support Act 2014 and Statement of Principles

  Background Before the Veterans' Support Act 2014, we used the War Pensions Act 1954 The War Pensions Act 1954 outlined the services to be provided to veterans, and the payment of pensions for injury...