FIREd Up : Wgtn’s Jane Kelsey “The FIRE Economy” Book Launch
Opinion – Jimmy Solen FIREd Up : Wgtn’s Jane Kelsey “The FIRE Economy” Book Launch Event report by Sven Solen
Housing Issues
TPPA progress harder from now on – Jan Rivers
Opinion – Jan Rivers With the failure of the Maui TPPA round to make a deal the next round of TPPA negotiations is going to be much more difficult for the government domestically as well as internationally . Despite the secrecy of the last seven years of negotiations media coverage in the …
Stalled TPP chance for wider discussion
Press Release – New Zealand Labour Party Failure to get the TPP agreement across the line gives New Zealanders an opportunity to put more pressure on the Government not to sign away our sovereignty, Opposition leader Andrew Little says.
TPPA ministerial fails – time for NZ Govt. to cut losses
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The final ministerial meeting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) in Maui has failed. Not opting to stay another day shows the gridlock is serious and potentially intractable, according to University of Auckland law professor …
Post-Cab Presser: Foreign buyers register, TPP and SERCO
Article – Jeremy Wilkinson and Megan Gattey At a press conference today in Wellington, John Key discussed the foreign buyers register as well as the TPP and Serco.
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
New Zealand Labour Party scapegoats Chinese over housing cri
Press Release – World Socialist Web Site By John Braddock 18 July 2015 New Zealands opposition Labour Party has sparked a political storm with claims that Chinese property investors are fuelling the housing bubble in Auckland. Labours housing spokesman Phil Twyford told TV3s The …
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.
Gordon Campbell on dairy, anti-Chinese sentiment, Pluto
Column – Gordon Campbell Where now for dairy farmers? On RNZ this morning, Economic Development Minister Stephen Joyce was portraying the carnage of plunging global dairy prices, declining Fonterra payouts and bank foreclosures as merely a product of the normal business …
Cunliffe: Building a Future for All – Conference Speech
Speech – New Zealand Labour Party We are here with good reason in this great city. To show our solidarity and determination to help get the rebuild moving. And to return a new Labour MP, Poto Williams, in Christchurch East. Thank you all for being here.
Key Notes: My week in Bali and Brunei
Column – New Zealand National Party APEC Leaders’ Meeting – Bali; East Asia Summit – Brunei; Trans-Pacific Partnership; Affordable Housing
Maori Party – ‘The land is where the value lies’
Press Release – The Maori Party The Maori Party has labelled Shearers new policy aimed at restricting foreigners from purchasing houses as lip-service, and has challenged the Labour Party to commit to real action to protect the assets of Aotearoa by extending their policies …
