Questions and Answers – December 4
Press Release – Office of the Clerk 1. JAMI-LEE ROSS (National—Botany) to the Minister of Finance : What reports has he received on the competitiveness of New Zealand’s business sector?
December 4, 2012
The TPPA: Corporate Control on Steroids
Article – David Cooke We should avoid the TPPA like the plague, for at least four main reasons. First, we should be instantly suspicious of any negotiations conducted in oppressive secrecy. The lead nation, America, has everything to gain and much to hide, so much so that …
Horan Expelled As Shearer And Key Lock Horns
Article – ParliamentToday.co.nz David Shearer & John Key go head to head over the achievements of the National Government.
Pirate Party takes issue with Piratical new Pro-TPP Website
Press Release – Pirate Party New Zealand – PPNZ The Pirate Party of New Zealand is concerned and has complained over the contents of the tradeworks.org.nz website. The website has ostensibly been set up by the few organisations that think they stand to gain from the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, …
Trans Pacific Partnership Secrecy A Concern For All
Press Release – New Zealand First Party New Zealand First today in Parliament found the Government unwilling to answer questions about the secrecy surrounding the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations or how it would provide jobs for New Zealanders.
Gordon Campbell on ‘political projectile vomiting’ about TPP
Column – Gordon Campbell Remember how the Key government has justified being so very, very secretive about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) because goodness me, you don’t negotiate these things in public? Well, guess who has just been negotiating the TPP in public?
Community Group lockout spotlights secrecy of TPP
Press Release – Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network “Over 20 international representatives of health, union, consumer and environment organisations have been locked out of the Trans-Pacific talks venue in Auckland,” Dr Patricia Ranald, Convenor of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network …
‘Treaty-making 101’ for Ministers, bloggers and lobbyists
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey 4 December 2012 For immediate release ‘Treaty-making 101’ for Ministers, bloggers and corporate lobbyists “Recent statements by politicians, corporate lobbyists and pro-TPP commentators imply that Parliament gets the final say over the Trans-Pacific …
TPP: Australia and NZ Agricultural Bodies Call For Action
Press Release – Federated Farmers 4 December 2012 TPP: Australia and New Zealand Agricultural Bodies Call For Action On Trade The peak agricultural bodies of New Zealand and Australia have united in calling for a truly comprehensive and generally liberalising Trans Pacific Partnership …
Martin Doyle cartoon: For you who are affected
Opinion – Martin Doyle There’s a suspicion (not confirmed) that the TPP negotiations in Auckland may have implications for all of us. Pity we don’t have a clue what’s going on.
Questions for Oral Answer – December 4
Press Release – Office of the Clerk 1. JAMI-LEE ROSS to the Minister of Finance: What reports has he received on the competiveness of New Zealand’s business sector?
TPP: Agricultural bodies call for action on trade
Press Release – Federated Farmers 4 November 2012 TPP: Australia and New Zealand agricultural bodies call for action on trade The peak agricultural bodies of New Zealand and Australia have united in calling for a truly comprehensive and generally liberalising Trans Pacific Partnership …
