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
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International Trade
Labour gives conditional support for TPP
Article – BusinessDesk July 23 (BusinessDesk) – The Labour Party is giving conditional support for the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership, with party leader Andrew Little saying Labour is “pro-free trade” but will only support TPP if it contains “key protections” …
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TPPA More Important than Public Concern
Press Release – New Zealand Government TPPA More Important than Public Concern The government has robbed New Zealanders of a chance to address concerns about the TPPA, says New Zealand First. New Zealand Firsts Fighting Foreign Corporate Control Bill gave New Zealanders a chance to …
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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 …
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Trade Minister puts global pharmacy giants ahead
Press Release – Council of Trade Unions Trade Minister puts global pharmacy giants ahead of his constituents Workers are set to lose out big time with rising healthcare costs if the government signs New Zealand up to a secretive investment deal no one seems to want, the CTU said today. …
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Trade minister must listen to medical specialists on TPP
Press Release – ASMS Trade Minister Tim Groser must listen to the serious warning raised by medical specialists over the threats to patients and taxpayers in the Trans Pacific trade negotiations. He damages his governments credibility by dismissing them as politically …
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Gordon Campbell on Treasury’s plans for Kiwirail
Column – Gordon Campbell Is there any more terrifying phrase in the English language than Treasury recommends? The latest idiotic idea to emerge from the Treasury lets close down Kiwirail deserves to be filed away alongside previous gems such as Treasury push for …
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New leaks show Pharmac loser in TPPA negotiation
Press Release – Green Party New leaked documents from the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) show that New Zealanders could lose access to affordable medication, said the Green Party today.
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TPP too big to fail, says visiting US trade deal specialist
Article – BusinessDesk July 2 (BusinessDesk) – Too much political capital has been invested in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal for it to fail at the final hurdle, says Peter Petri, a professor of international finance at Brandeis University and co-author of a study on the economic …
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Leaked TPP document shows US pushing rights of drug coys
Article – BusinessDesk July 2 (BusinessDesk) – A draft of part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal leaked to the Politico website suggests the US is demanding increased protections for pharmaceutical companies, restricting access to the lower-cost generic versions …
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Time to wave the white flag on TISA secrecy
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Less than a month ago, Wikileaks posted 17 documents leaked from the secretive negotiations for a Trade in Services Agreement (TISA). New Zealand is part of the group of countries calling themselves the Really Good Friends of Services who are trying to negotiate …
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Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Core Text
Press Release – Wikileaks Today, 1500 CEST Wednesday, 1 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases a modern journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the largest ‘trade deal’ in history, the TiSA (Trade In Services Agreement), whose 52 nations together comprise two-thirds of global …
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