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
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New Zealand
TPP: This is a fight worth joining
Article – Hadyn Green Trade negotiations are tense affairs. There are always interested parties trying to get your ear, long nights spent arguing small but technical points, and the invisible but ever present political pressure. So it was in Brunei late August where the latest …
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TTPA not democratic and not right, nurses say
Press Release – NZNO The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is joining thousands of other organisations and individuals in calling for the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), currently being negotiated in secret, to be made public.
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Bali keeps TPP on right track, say NZ businesses
Press Release – Joint Press Release The NZUS Council and NZ International Business Forum have both welcomed the progress made on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) at the Bali APEC meetings. “TPP Leaders have confirmed that TPP is on track to deliver an ambitious, high quality and comprehensive …
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Gordon Campbell on that alluringly elusive TPP trade deal
Column – Gordon Campbell How is this for a cart before the horse notion of democracy, as practiced by the Key government? From the NZ Herald this morning: [Prime Minister John Key] is also indicating he wants a deal done as soon as possible so he can publicly discuss …
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Leaders Statement
Press Release – Trans-Pacific Partnership Leaders Statement We, the Leaders of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam, are pleased to announce today that our countries are on track to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership …
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Gordon Campbell on the media’s duty to evaluate the TPP
Column – Gordon Campbell One downside of so called objectivity is that it can turn the media into a simple megaphone for those in power – especially in situations where the media chooses to effectively abandon its role in evaluating the information it is being fed. The …
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TPP a matter of when and not if, farming leader says
Press Release – Federated Farmers Having returned from the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Federated Farmers believes the logic for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is so strong and its advantages so apparent, that the absence of President Obama from negotiations will not unduly …
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Kiwis must reject TPPA – Democrats for Social Credit
Press Release – Democrats for Social Credit The Transpacific Partnership Agreement, between New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Singapore, Chile, Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia, Mexico, Canada, Peru, and Japan appears to be in its final stages of negotiations says John Ring, Foreign Affairs Spokesman …
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Seed Security Vital for New Zealand
Press Release – GE Free NZ Securing New Zealand’s production of seed and access to imported seed, should be a national priority but the Government must develop a long term strategy.
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Obama cancels APEC trip, TPPA trade-off talks torpedoed
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The US budget standoff has thrown the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement into complete disarray and surely puts paid to any claims they can finish the deal by the end of the year, said University of Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey.
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PM urged to ensure New Zealanders’ health not signed away
Press Release – Public Health Association The Public Health Association (PHA) has written an open letter to Prime Minister John Key amid health sector fears the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) could seriously jeopardise public health in New Zealand.
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