Press Release – Office of the Clerk Time is running out for you to have your say on the TPPA This Friday, 11 March is the deadline for you to have your say on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) . Along with the TPPA, the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee is …
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Press Release – New Zealand Government The first roadshow on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was held in Auckland today to an audience of around 300 people. Trade Minister Todd McClay says this is the first of 16 roadshows and hui throughout New Zealand.
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Press Release – New Zealand First Party The government is stacking the scales in favour of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and stifling the debate, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland Member of Parliament Rt Hon Winston Peters.
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Press Release – New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Some voices will be heard on TPPA others not In February CTU Secretary Sam Huggard wrote to the Parliamentary Committee about the very brief timeline to hear from the public about the TPPA. Yesterday we heard back from the committee that it refused …
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Press Release – It’s Our Future The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade yesterday decided to deny an extension for submissions into their inquiry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Nationals majority on the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade committee has refused to extend the deadline for submissions on the 30-chapter Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) past the 15 sitting days set out in the Cabinet manual, despite …
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Press Release – New Zealand Labour Party Labour will call for a one month extension of the deadline for submissions on the Trans-Pacific Partnership at tomorrows select committee, says Labours Trade and Export Growth spokesperson David Clark.
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Press Release – Christchurch City Council Councillors received an update on the New Central Library project, which was recently put out for tender. The Council has received a number of excellent tenders and a decision will be made in the coming weeks. Ground-works for the library began on …
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Press Release – TPP Action Group Upper Hutt City Council adopts a TPPA Free Zone policy as a precaution to the imposition of the Trans Pacific Partnership.1
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Speech – New Zealand Government Thank you Michael and the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, and Steve and Massey University, for inviting me back to this annual event.
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Press Release – New Zealand Government Government working for Pacific people The number of Pacific people not in employment, education or training decreased last year, Pacific Peoples Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga says. Latest labour market figures show that for the year to December 2015, the rate …
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Speech – New Zealand First Party Thank you for your invitation to speak to the leaders of companies that help to keep New Zealands crops and animals growing.
Winston Peters Speech: Realising Real Opportunities Read More »
