PM Press Conference Dominated by Solid Energy Debacle
Article – Mark P. Williams PM Press Conference Dominated by Solid Energy Debacle PM Post-Cabinet Press Conference – 25 Feb 2013
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General Politics
PM to strengthen trade ties with Latin America
Press Release – New Zealand Government Prime Minister John Key will lead a trade delegation to Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Brazil next week as part of the Governments increased focus on strengthening bilateral relations, and capitalising on trade opportunities, with the Latin America nations.
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Cigarette Plain Packs Will Keep Lawyers Busy for Years
Press Release – New Zealand First Party New Zealand First is asking why the Government is introducing plain packaging of tobacco products while it is negotiating the deeply-flawed Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement.
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National kicks for touch on plain packaging
Press Release – Jane Kelsey Nationals ploy to introduce the law on plain packaging of tobacco products at the end of this year, but not pass it until all the cases pending against Australias law are concluded, will push it well into the next parliamentary term’, says Professor …
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Free trade deals delay public health initiative
Press Release – Green Party The positive health initiative of introducing plain packaging for cigarettes is being undone by the Governments free trade obsession, Green Party health spokesperson Kevin Hague said today.
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Say No To Asset Sales – National Rally – 13 Feb 213
Article – Mark P. Williams Yesterday evening saw a gathering in Frank Kitts Park for the Say No To Asset Sales national rally. Speakers included Mayor Celia Wade-Brown, Maanu Paul from the Maori Council, Professor Jane Kelsey from the University of Auckland, Dr Geoff Bertram …
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The hurt of militarized authoritarianism in the world
Column – War Is A Crime Its hard for me, an ordinary citizen of Singapore, a medical doctor engaged in social enterprise work in Afghanistan and a human being wishing for a better world, to write this from Kabul. But people are dying. And children and women are feeling …
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Gordon Campbell on Key’s offer to take in Aussie boat people
Column – Gordon Campbell In the past, successive Labour and National led governments have been happy to use the poisonous term queue jumping to describe people trying to exercise their UN Refugee Convention-based right to reach these shores and claim political asylum.
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Prime Minister’s Statement to Parliament
Speech – New Zealand Government Rt Hon John Key Prime Minister 29 January 2013 Speech Prime Ministers Statement to Parliament Honourable Members. The National-led Government was re-elected in 2011 with a clear plan to build a faster-growing economy supporting more jobs, rising …
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Separate the Power Companies from Natural Resources
Opinion – Douglas Owens The proposed sale of Mighty River Power is a travesty for the New Zealand general public. It will be a financial windfall for the financial elite and other industry players. The well-off in New Zealand will also have the chance to make some easy …
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Gordon Campbell on the major party political speeches
Column – Gordon Campbell As one would expect at the outset of the political year, the recent trio of state of the nation addresses have been more about impression management than policy detail. Well aware that his government is increasingly seen as being mere tinkerers …
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John Key – Speech to North Harbour Club
Speech – New Zealand Government Whether its welfare reform, law and order, education, the rebuild of Christchurch, or continuing our improvements in public services, its full steam ahead.
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