Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Wednesday 30 May 2012 New Report Warns Trade & Investment Agreements Could Threaten NZ’s Smokefree Goal “New Zealanders are rightly surprised and indignant when tobacco companies like Philip Morris use international trade and investment treaties …
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Press Release – NZNO The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is concerned that the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), currently being negotiated in secret, has the potential to limit the government’s ability to make decisions that are in the best interests of the …
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Press Release – iPredict For the first time since the last election, iPredict expects National to win the next New Zealand General Election, most likely supported by the NZ First Party.
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey “The tobacco industry will use every legal avenue it can to stop New Zealand introducing plain packaging laws”, predicts University of Auckland Professor Jane Kelsey, who is just completing a report on the impact of trade and investment agreements on New …
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Press Release – New Zealand First Party Rt Hon Winston Peters New Zealand First Leader Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs 20 April 2012 Government Faces US Lawsuit Floodgates New Zealand First says veiled legal threats against the Government’s plans for plain packaging on cigarettes …
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Press Release – First Union Plans to introduce plain packaging of cigarettes could come unstuck as a result of New Zealand’s involvement in trade talks – which so far remain in secret.
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Press Release – Democrats for Social Credit The government’s proposed changes for funding of glucose meters and strips for diabetes care is ill-advised and not in the best interests of patients, according to Democrats for Social Credit health spokesman, David Tranter.
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Press Release – University of Otago Clear goals and detailed planning are critical to achieve the government’s aim of making New Zealand ‘smoke-free’ by 2025, according to health researchers from the University of Otago, Wellington.
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Press Release – Public Health Association The Public Health Association (PHA) has condemned New Zealand’s ambassador to the US Mike Moore co-hosting a Trans Pacific Partnership (TPPA) trade event sponsored by tobacco company Phillip Morris.
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The leaking of three further secret texts from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations confirms fears that the US is pushing for rules on healthcare products that would give its pharmaceutical giants new tools to attack national drug …
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