Press Release – Alistair Woodward and Papaarangi Reid Sixty New Zealand health academics and practitioners have sent a strong message to the government that public health must not be sacrificed on the altar of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement when trade ministers meet in Singapore this weekend.
Health specialists urge not to trade off public health- TPPA Read More »
Press Release – Fair Deal Coalition Today the Fair Deal Coalition has called on Governments involved in the TPP negotiations to reject copyright proposals that would limit the open internet, access to knowledge, and curtail economic opportunity.
Pull TPP provisions that restrict access to knowledge Read More »
Press Release – Beef And Lamb NZ Beef + Lamb New Zealand compiles lamb, mutton and beef export statistics for the country. The 201213 export year concluded on 30 September 2013. The following is a summary and details of the export statistics for the 12-month period.
Sheepmeat and Beef Export Statistics for 2012–13 Read More »
Press Release – Electronic Frontier Foundation After years of secret trade negotiations over the future of intellectual property rights (and limits on those rights), the public gets a chance to looks at the results. For those of us who care about free speech and a balanced intellectual property system …
US Negotiators Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms Read More »
Press Release – Wikileaks Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter . The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more …
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) IP Chapter Read More »
Article – Creative Freedom Foundation Last week the Creative Freedom Foundation participated in a group briefing and Q&A session with David Walker, NZs Chief Negotiator in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement , and officials Angela Strahl and Yvonne Woutersen.
TPPA looks set to secretly extend NZ’s Copyright Term Read More »
Speech – New Zealand First Party Thank you for inviting me to speak to you tonight and for your interest in international affairs. Lets start by saying something reasonably obvious, which is that with some exceptions, New Zealand foreign policy is by and large a pretty bipartisan affair.
Winston Peters Speech to Institute of International Affairs Read More »
Press Release – Anti Bases Campaign John Key says that hes allowed to wear big boys pants because New Zealand is a member of The Club (Five Eyes, formally known as the UKUSA Agreement), which he says means that the intelligence agencies of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New …
John Key Says Yanks Not Spying on Him Read More »
Press Release – Beef And Lamb NZ Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) and representatives from other Five Nations Beef Alliance partners have called on Washingtons Capitol Hill to promote a unified view of how trade in agricultural products and especially beef should be …
Beef + Lamb New Zealand Puts Case to Washington Read More »
Article – Hadyn Green Trade negotiations are tense affairs. There are always interested parties trying to get your ear, long nights spent arguing small but technical points, and the invisible but ever present political pressure. So it was in Brunei late August where the latest …
TPP: This is a fight worth joining Read More »
Press Release – Trans-Pacific Partnership Leaders Statement We, the Leaders of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam, are pleased to announce today that our countries are on track to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership …
Trans-Pacific Partnership Leaders Statement Read More »
Press Release – Democrats for Social Credit The Transpacific Partnership Agreement, between New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Singapore, Chile, Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia, Mexico, Canada, Peru, and Japan appears to be in its final stages of negotiations says John Ring, Foreign Affairs Spokesman …
Kiwis must reject TPPA – Democrats for Social Credit Read More »
