James Shaw’s Commencement Debate Speech
Speech – Green Party Ki a koutou ku hoa Premata, huri noa i te Whare, ng mihi o te tau hou ki a koutou katoa.
Real Estate
Auckland in the world’s top 20 most dynamic cities
Press Release – JLL AUCKLAND, 5 February 2016 Auckland has appeared in the top 20 of the worlds most dynamic cities in JLLs latest City Momentum Index (CMI).
Top Ten Predictions 2016
Press Release – Colliers International In our 2016 predictions for New Zealands property market we discuss views on market demand, politics, planning, emerging investor groups, how the office, retail and industrial sectors will fair and our opinions on the ever popular residential, hotel …
Foreign buyers ban will achieve what Govt failed to
Press Release – New Zealand Labour Party Phil Twyford Housing Spokesperson 12 November 2015 Foreign buyers ban will achieve what Govt failed to Labours Members Bill to ban foreign buyers from purchasing existing homes will achieve what the Government failed to in its Trans Pacific Partnership …
Americans were biggest buyers of NZ dairy land in 2013-2104
Article – BusinessDesk Oct. 13 (BusinessDesk) – Americans were the largest investors in New Zealand dairy farms in 2013 and 2014, according to analysis of Overseas Investment Office decisions by KPMG.
Groser Blind to TPPA Hit on Housing
Press Release – New Zealand First Party Trade Minister Tim Groser has his head in the clouds believing the TPPA will not affect New Zealanders ability to buy homes, says New Zealand First.
FIREd Up : Wgtn’s Jane Kelsey “The FIRE Economy” Book Launch
Opinion – Jimmy Solen FIREd Up : Wgtn’s Jane Kelsey “The FIRE Economy” Book Launch Event report by Sven Solen
TPPA ministerial fails – time for NZ Govt. to cut losses
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The final ministerial meeting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) in Maui has failed. Not opting to stay another day shows the gridlock is serious and potentially intractable, according to University of Auckland law professor …
Yet Another ‘Final’ TPP Ministerial and Again No Deal
Press Release – Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Todays fourth final TPP ministerial without a deal means the clock has run on possible U.S. congressional votes in 2015. No deal means the TPP is thrown into the political maelstrom of the U.S. presidential cycle and with opposition building …
The ‘Free Trade’ horse is already bolting
Press Release – Public Good On Tuesday David Parker wrote in the NZ Herald that the government’s signing of the South Korea Free Trade Agreement creates risks for NZ. Yesterday the Labour Party has withheld support until certain guarantees are made. However the specific risk …
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.
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 …
