Press Release – Joint Media Statement The 11th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement negotiations between Australia , the US , New Zealand , Malaysia and four other countries starts in Melbourne on March 1. Civil society groups from those countries are in Melbourne to contest …
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Press Release – Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network Tuesday February 28, 2012 The 11th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement negotiations between Australia, the US, New Zealand, Malaysia and four other countries starts in Melbourne on March 1. Civil society groups from those countries …
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Column – Paul G. Buchanan – A Word From Afar Paul Buchanan writes: One of the interesting aspects of the leaked emails between Foreign Minister Murray McCully and MP Johns Hayes, a former diplomat, is the latter’s mention of the need to “resist” China’s growing presence in the South Pacific…
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey If the New Zealand government had declined the Shanghai Pengxin purchase of the Crafar farm it could have faced an international law suit for breaching its free trade agreement with China, says University of Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey. ‘When China’s …
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Press Release – New Zealand Government Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and John Key met for the annual Australia-New Zealand Leaders’ meeting in Melbourne on 29 January. Their meeting was followed by the second Joint Meeting of Australian and New Zealand Cabinet Ministers.
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), facing a deluge of condemnation over the impact of its trade policy on affordable medicines, today issued a four-page white paper entitled ‘Trade Enhancing Access to Medicines (TEAM), Jane Kelsey said.
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Column – Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade The level of public interest in the Trans-Pacific Partnership reflects the significance of the negotiation as a trade and foreign policy intiative.
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