PM: I don’t want to ban foreign buyers from buying
Press Release – TVNZ PM: I don’t want to ban foreign buyers from buying & SERCO about consistent with other prisons
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Australia
Patrick Gower interviews Trade Minister Tim Groser
Press Release – The Nation T im Groser says a legal challenge against future government ban on foreign property buyers cant be ruled out under the TPP but says the real issue is whether it could succeed. So what well be doing over the next few days is ensuring …
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TPP must deliver, say beef producers
Press Release – Five Nations Beef Alliance Beef producers from five Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) member countries are calling for a high-quality market access deal on beef to be secured at the TPP ministerial meeting in Hawaii this month.
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The ‘Free Trade’ horse is already bolting
Press Release – Public Good On Tuesday David Parker wrote in the NZ Herald that the government’s signing of the South Korea Free Trade Agreement creates risks for NZ. Yesterday the Labour Party has withheld support until certain guarantees are made. However the specific risk …
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Questions and Answers – July 21
Press Release – Office of the Clerk 1. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (LeaderNZ First) to the Prime Minister : Does he stand by all his statements?
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The FIRE Economy: New Zealand’s Reckoning – By Jane Kelsey
Opinion – Professor Jane Kelsey The global economy imploded in 2008 and confirmed a stark reality. Entire nations and billions of people are captives of an unstable and amoral economic system powered by finance , insurance and real estate FIRE. [1] New Zealand included.
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Patrick Gower interviews Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce
Steven Joyce dismisses fears of a recession in the next two years, “unless we talk ourselves into it” but admits “the job isn’t done in the economy”. Will present a new foreign investment strategy to Cabinet on Monday that involves partnering with Australia to create “a pipeline of private sector investment opportunities to international investors”
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Questions and Answers – July 2
Press Release – Office of the Clerk 1. Dr SHANE RETI (NationalWhangarei) to the Minister of Finance : What reports has he received on the international economy and its effect on New Zealands economy?
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Leaked TPP document shows US pushing rights of drug coys
Article – BusinessDesk July 2 (BusinessDesk) – A draft of part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal leaked to the Politico website suggests the US is demanding increased protections for pharmaceutical companies, restricting access to the lower-cost generic versions …
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Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Core Text
Press Release – Wikileaks Today, 1500 CEST Wednesday, 1 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases a modern journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the largest ‘trade deal’ in history, the TiSA (Trade In Services Agreement), whose 52 nations together comprise two-thirds of global …
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Questions and Answers – July 1
Press Release – Office of the Clerk Hon ANNETTE KING (Deputy LeaderLabour): My question is to the Minister of Health. How much has been spent by the Government on the Social Bonds Pilot to date?
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Uncertain outcome means TPP negotiations still on hold
Press Release – AFTINET TPP Fast Track Bill back to US Senate: uncertain outcome means TPP negotiations still on hold
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