Broad support for TPP from SMEs
Press Release – MYOB Boost for free trade supporters on eve of legislative debate with SMEs also favouring more trade agreements
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iPredict New Zealand Weekly Economic & Political Update
Press Release – iPredict TV3s Campbell Live appears doomed, with a 77% probability it will be cancelled before 1 January 2016 , according to the combined wisdom of the 8000+ registered traders on New Zealands predictions market, iPredict. John Keys position as …
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Foreign Control Watchdog 137 – December 2014
Press Release – Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa TPPA Local Government Campaign: Well-Beings, War-Makers And Pirates Te Waka a Mui Rides The Storm by Greg Rzesniowiecki
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PM Post-Cabinet Press Conference – 17 November 2014
Article – The Scoop Team The Prime Minister met with reporters today to discuss: The governmental, independent and other departmental inquiries into the Philip Smith incident Roger Suttons resignation as Chief Executive of CERA owing to sexual harassment The APEC East …
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TPP risks a weaker global trading system, says ex-WTO head
Article – BusinessDesk July 21 (BusinessDesk) – The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a step backwards to the days before the World Trade Organisation when the the US and Europe controlled the global trading system to the detriment of developing economies, says a former director-general …
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TPP: Brunei Sharia Law scandal and failed bilateral meetings
Press Release – AFTINET Brunei Sharia Law scandal and failed bilateral meetings haunt secret Trans-Pacific talks in Ottawa
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Democracy, Freedom and the Realisation of the Imagination
Article – Joel Cosgrove We spent last week talking about capitalism (a social/economic structure which is based on the production of things for profit). The flip side of a discussion of capitalism is a discussion of socialism.
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Gordon Campbell on Judith Collins’ milking of the system
Column – Gordon Campbell The Cabinet manual not only forbids actual conflicts of interest when Ministers are performing public duties from which they or their family members and close associates might derive private gain – it also puts the onus on the Minister to actively avoid …
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Will Govt purchasing deals prevent support for Living Wage?
Press Release – New Zealand Council of Trade Unions The Government is about to sign a Government Procurement Agreement in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that could stop future central and local governments giving an advantage to local suppliers to help economic development.
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Gordon Campbell on the Labour Party annual conference
Column – Gordon Campbell It seems to be a basic law of political thermodynamics that centre left parties can only lurch or swing when they begin to sound more assertive. This lateral motion always takes them further leftwards, allegedly in response to the primal, …
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Union movement gathers for ‘Fairness at Work’
Article – Fightback 132 delegates, representing nearly 300,000 union members, met in Wellington on 9-10 October. The Council of Trade Unions Biennial Conference 2013 examined the issues facing working people in New Zealand since the last gathering in 2011, and debated …
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Maritime Union Links To Building “Trans–Pacific Opposition”
Press Release – Maritime Union of New Zealand The Maritime Union says the TPPA (Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement) is attracting massive “Trans Pacific” opposition, not just in New Zealand.
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