National government betrays NZers in TPPA deal
Press Release – Jane Kelsey This deal is a travesty of democracy, said Professor Jane Kelsey about the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) in Atlanta, USA.
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TPPA leak: more worries for Labour
Press Release – Jane Kelsey The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) has given up another secret unprecedented new restrictions on state-owned enterprises (SOEs), says University of Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey who has monitored the SOE negotiations intensively. …
TPPA leak: Jacobi misleads about protections for NZ
Article – Jane Kelsey On Radio NZs Morning Report Stephen Jacobi said New Zealand would have protections from obligations in the investment chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) that were not part of the text posted by Wikileaks yesterday.
NZ First Bill throws down the gauntlet over TPPA
Press Release – Jane Kelsey The Fighting Foreign Corporate Control Bill in the name of New Zealand Firsts trade spokesperson Fletcher Tabuteau was drawn from the ballot today.
Lessons for TPPA
Press Release – Jane Kelsey Imagine the New Zealand government does what it thinks is needed to comply with the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). Then US Trade Representative Michael Froman tells Trade Minister Groser, sorry Tim you must rewrite the law …
National must back Malaysia’s tobacco carveout in TPPA
Press Release – Jane Kelsey It is great news that the plain packaging tobacco law will be introduced to the House next year, albeit more than three years after the Maori Affairs Committees report on how to make Aotearoa New Zealand effectively smokefree by 2025, said …
Scene set for quick and dirty trade-offs on TPPA
Press Release – Jane Kelsey Last month any deal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement seemed near impossible, according to Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey. Now we are told the trade ministers from the twelve countries seriously believe they can make the key …
Key must stop misleading NZers that Parliament has power over the TPPA
Press Release – Jane Kelsey The government seems intent on misleading New Zealanders that Parliament will have the final say about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, said Professor Jane Kelsey.
TPPA goes into overdrive and underground
Article – Jane Kelsey Moves to get the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) to the point of sign-off by the end of the year went into overdrive at the round just ended in Brunei, according to Professor Jane Kelsey who was present as a stakeholder for the final few …
GCSB Bill a threat to anti-TPPA campaigners
Press Release – Jane Kelsey At the rally of several thousand people in Auckland, Professor Jane Kelsey warned that the GCSB Bill posed additional threats to those engaged in perfectly lawful activity, including the international campaign against the proposed TPP Agreement
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 …
Obama casts TPP as Challenge to China
Press Release – Jane Kelsey Obama casts TPP as Challenge to China – will Groser now walk away?
