Legal Issues

Desperate Key trying to redefine TPPA as law & order issue

Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey News that police have been visiting opponents of the TPPA ahead of next weeks signing is the latest step in an orchestrated move by the Prime Minister to try to redefine the signing of the hugely unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement …

Worrying fall for NZ in global corruption index

Press Release – Public Service Association New Zealands slipped down the rankings in a worldwide corruption index, and the Public Service Associations urging the government to take it seriously. Transparency Internationals Corruption Perceptions Index 2016 has seen New Zealand slip from …

Ministers to sign TPPA in NZ on 4 February 2016

Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Offshore confirmation: Ministers to sign TPPA in NZ on 4 February 2016 The ministers from the twelve countries who negotiated the the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will sign it in New Zealand on 4 February, a government spokesperson from …

Scoop Audio: Jane Kelsey On The TPP Text

Article – Lyndon Hood Professor Jane Kelsey held a TPP briefing for media in the Green Party’s Parliamentary offices today. She covered the current timeline and obstacles for US and NZ adoption of the agreement, the status of NZ challenges relating to negotiations, specific …