ISDS Bill Voted Down
Article – ParliamentToday.co.nz This bill sought to prohibit New Zealand from entering international agreements that include provision for investor-state dispute settlement.
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New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers Incorporated AGM
Press Release – New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers Incorporated (NZKGI) held its Annual General Meeting today, Wednesday 22 July 2015, updating growers on its key projects and reflected on a successful year.
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Questions and Answers – July 21
Press Release – Office of the Clerk 1. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (LeaderNZ First) to the Prime Minister : Does he stand by all his statements?
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Questions For Oral Answer July 21
Press Release – Office of the Clerk 1. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements?
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Is Govt running scared from TPPA’s implications for Māori?
Press Release – Green Party The Government shouldnt have argued against the Waitangi Tribunal fast tracking two claims regarding the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) because this has worrying implications for natural justice, the Green Party said today. The …
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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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Tova O’Brien interviews Winston Peters
Press Release – The Nation Peters says negotiations over Maori co-governance of water should play out in public and water is going to end up in private ownership.
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Crown says no to delaying TPPA
Press Release – Te Ringahuia Hata On Tuesday lawyers for the claimants seeking an urgent inquiry into the Crowns actions in negotiating the TPPA by the Waitangi Tribunal asked the Crown for an undertaking that no action would be taken towards making final commitments on behalf of New Zealand …
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The FIRE Economy: New Zealand’s Reckoning – By Jane Kelsey
Opinion – Professor Jane Kelsey The global economy imploded in 2008 and confirmed a stark reality. Entire nations and billions of people are captives of an unstable and amoral economic system powered by finance , insurance and real estate FIRE. [1] New Zealand included.
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Gordon Campbell on dairy, anti-Chinese sentiment, Pluto
Column – Gordon Campbell Where now for dairy farmers? On RNZ this morning, Economic Development Minister Stephen Joyce was portraying the carnage of plunging global dairy prices, declining Fonterra payouts and bank foreclosures as merely a product of the normal business …
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Book Launch: The FIRE Economy by Jane Kelsey
Article – Francis Cook Professor Jane Kelsey held a discussion with Carol Hershfeld on her new book The FIRE Economy: New Zealand’s Reckoning . Last night marked to official launch of the work, published by Bridget Williams Books. The FIRE Economy is an investigation into …
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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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