Press Release – Green Party National appears to be giving foreign corporations extra rights to sue governments if they legislate to act in the national interest, says the Green Party.
TPPA leak proves foreign corporations can sue New Zealand Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The controversial investment chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) has just been posted by Wikileaks , along with an analysis by Washington-based Public Citizen. Dated 20 January 2015, at the start of the negotiating round in New York, …
New TPPA Investment Leak Confirms NZ Surrender to US Read More »
Press Release – AFTINET Trans-Pacific trade (TPP) leak confirms foreign investors could sue over PBS, Medicare, food regulation
TPP leak confirms foreign investors could sue governments Read More »
Press Release – Wikileaks WikiLeaks releases today the “Investment Chapter” from the secret negotiations of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement. The document adds to the previous WikiLeaks publications of the chapters for Intellectual Property Rights (November …
Secret TPPA Investment Chapter Released Read More »
Press Release – TPP Action Group A packed gallery of locals on Tuesday 24th March witnessed Hutt City Council become the 7th New Zealand Council to support the public interest TPP policy originally adopted by Auckland in December 2012. Hutt City joins Nelson, Tasman, Christchurch, …
TPP policy solution adopted by Hutt City Council Read More »
Press Release – Council of Trade Unions Parliament has refused to hear public submissions on an international agreement the Government has signed that locks in future rules for government purchasing, says CTU Secretary, Sam Huggard. This should have been the one and only opportunity …
Public submissions refused on Government Procurement deal Read More »
Press Release – Federated Farmers Following todays announcements from Synlait and Fonterra, Federated Farmers is urging dairy farmers to keep their budgets tight.
Fonterra and Synlait results look grim Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The latest revelations about the GCSB pose a stark question: is the GCSBs trade team spying on governments with whom New Zealand is negotiating international deals, especially the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)?, asked University …
Is the GCSB ‘trade team’ spying on NZ’s TPPA ‘partners’? Read More »
Opinion – InternetNZ Earlier this week, I presented to a group of 15 Parliamentarians, plus a couple of dozen staffers, at an event we co-sponsored called the Parliamentary Digital Bootcamp. This was an initiative that we partnered with Google and Facebook on, designed to …
Parliament, Legislation and the Internet | Andrew Cushen Read More »
Article – BusinessDesk March 23 (BusinessDesk) – A long-awaited free trade agreement between New Zealand and South Korea has been signed in Seoul by Prime Minister John Key and the Korean president, Park Geun-hye.
NZ-Korea FTA signed amid spying, lost sovereignty claims Read More »
Press Release – Solomon Islands Government The Government has launched the Solomon Islands first ever Trade Policy Framework in Honiara Wednesday last week.
Solomon Islands Trade Policy Framework Launched Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Investment chapter in NZ Korea another handcuff on NZ government Cheerleading around the New Zealand Korea free trade deal fails, yet again, to understand that these agreements are not simply about kiwifruit and wine, warns Auckland University …
Investment chapter in NZ Korea another handcuff on governent Read More »