Will your party hand over our right to make laws to the US?
Press Release – OraTaiao Will your party hand over our right to make laws to the US? ask doctors
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Primary Health
Challenges to equitable access to medicines
Press Release – University of Auckland Access to medicines by vulnerable groups in the community, increasing medicine costs, and the demand for new medicines are some of the challenges identified in an independent study of priority medicine policy issues in New Zealand.
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Prevention of fracking harms would be shackled by trade deal
Press Release – OraTaiao A new report concludes that fracking practices in NZ pose risks to health and the environment. The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has recommended that regulations be overhauled and tightened to protect New Zealanders from harm. But …
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Senior Hospital Doctors sound warning over TPPA talks
Press Release – Canterbury Hospitals Medical Staff Association Here in NZ, we have a proud history of taxpayer funded, quality public health care. Even if we dont always love how our public health care system works, for most people it does…well work . The medicines, care, surgical and other procedures …
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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 …
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Trade agreement threatens access to affordable medicines
Press Release – Global Asthma Network Access to affordable medicines is threatened by the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, according to the New Zealand-based leader of the Global Asthma Network, Professor Innes Asher.
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National’s smokefree commitment tested by Malaysia on TPPA
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The Malaysian government has tackled head-on the threat that the TPPA poses to smokefree policies by proposing a total carveout of tobacco control policies from the agreement, according to Professor Jane Kelsey, who is currently in Brunei.
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Gordon Campbell on the TPP’s risk to national sovereignty
Column – Gordon Campbell Remember the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, and those scary stories last year about how it would give foreign multinationals the right to sue the countries who sign up to it, if said corporates happen to feel disadvantaged by any laws or regulations …
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TPPA could bypass cap on liability for tighter gambling laws
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey In theory, the New Zealand Parliament has the power to make and unmake our gambling laws. In practice, the backroom contract between the National government and Sky City could stymie effective regulation of gaming for the next 35 years, according …
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Jane Kelsey New Book On TPPA – Hidden Agendas
Press Release – Bridget Williams Books. Hidden Agendas What We Need to Know about the TPPA. Jane Kelsey Forget the label “free trade agreement”. The TPPA, under negotiation between New Zealand, the USA and ten other countries, is a direct assault on our right to decide our own future. In this hard-hitting BWB Text, Professor
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Access to Medicines Is Key to Reducing Suffering from Asthma
Article – Citizen News 7 May: World Asthma Day Bobby Ramakant, Citizen News Service CNS Asthma causes disabling symptoms in millions of people who struggle to breathe, making ordinary activities extraordinarily difficulty things like going to school, working at …
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Medical Students Concerned About Patient Rights in TPP
Press Release – New Zealand Medical Students’ Association – NZMSA Press release: New Zealand medical students concerned about lack of outcomes for protection of patient rights in TPP negotiations The New Zealand Medical Students Association (NZMSA) urges negotiators and politicians to preserve New Zealand’s freedom …
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