Stephen Parry

“The National Party has enthusiastically driven the controversial TPP agreement, but New Zealand First, Labour and the Green Party have all expressed doubts about it. The United States withdrew from the TPP earlier this year, but the remaining 11 countries are striving to keep the contentious deal alive, with New Zealand one of the keenest. […]

A vote for National is a vote for the TPPA-11 Kia ora koutou katoa, This will be a short Bulletin as you are all, no doubt, up to your eyeballs in political spin and campaign rhetoric. The general election Saturday is the big political issue on everybody’s mind in Aotearoa.  If you have not already

It is now certain that any decisions on the future of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) minus the US will take place after the election. Last week’s meeting of the negotiators from the remaining 11 TPPA countries rebuffed the National government’s wish to proceed with the agreement basically unchanged aside from new provisions for its

Events in Sydney this week mean the New Zealand government is now facing a renegotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) text on the eve of an election. ‘It is simply unacceptable that a caretaker National party would continue to make decisions in secret on such a sensitive matter in the midst of an election

Last week, It’s Our Future asked the political parties to sign on to 10 bottom lines for New Zealand’s future trade policy. Check out their responses and our analysis here: https://itsourfuture.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IOF-political-party-positions-Copy-edited.pdf You can read the full text of the bottom lines here on the It’s Our Future website. We will be launching a petition to

July 2017 It’s Our Future TPPA Bulletin out today, available here and reproduced below.  Contains details of the  new It’s Our Future election campaign: “A Trade Policy for the People” ___________________________________________________________ Kia ora koutou, I am pleased to announce that It’s Our Future will be launching a brand-new campaign on 10 August 2017 called “A Trade

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] June 2017 It’s Our Future TPPA Bulletin out today, available here and reproduced below. Check it out for an update on where things are at with the Zombie TPPA, and what you can do to stop it. _________________________________________________________________   Kia ora koutou, welcome to another edition of the

Originally published in CTU Monthly Economic Bulletin No. 186 (February 2017) Summary With the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) in its death throes, it is time to think about what a good alternative – and what people-friendly globalisation – would look like. At the heart of public concerns, whether it is about the impact of these agreements

Remember when the Auckland CBD got shut down last year because we were upset about opening our economy up to overseas corporates? Right now, New Zealand and Australia are forcing the Pacific Island economies to do the same thing under a trade agreement called PACER-plus, due to be signed in June 2017. An excellent plain-language

Press release 16 May 2017 Nowhere for Labour to hide on TPPA in election year As Prime Minister Bill English heads off to Japan with trade minister Todd McClay in their quest to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) minus the USA, ‘the silence from Labour is deafening’, Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey observes.

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The latest It’s Our Future TPPA Bulletin is out now.  View it here or in the reproduced text below:   The Zombie TPPA is creeping back to life When the last It’s Our Future Bulletin came out in late February, the TPPA countries — minus the US, and plus

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] ‘Ideological free trade dogma will hit new heights if New Zealand joins a rumoured plan to resurrect the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) without the US. If Trade Minister Todd McClay commits New Zealand to this path, he will guarantee that the TPPA becomes an election issue’, warned