Press Release – AFTINET “US proposals on medicines were attacked by civil society groups and are being resisted by Australia and most of the eleven countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPPA) trade negotiations which finish today in Auckland,” Dr Patricia Ranald, …
Press Release – New Zealand Nurses Organisation The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is concerned that, despite the Prime Minister’s previous assurances that the fundamentals of New Zealand’s drug buying agency Pharmac would be protected during trade talks, the opposite appears to be the case.
Column – Gordon Campbell New Zealand has been hosting the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks in Auckland for the past week, but you’d have to say things haven’t worked out quite as well as some had hoped. In fact, it has been a bit sad to watch, up close.
Press Release – New Zealand First Party New Zealand First today in Parliament found the Government unwilling to answer questions about the secrecy surrounding the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations or how it would provide jobs for New Zealanders.
Press Release – Joint Press Release Students from Victoria University will today be hitting the streets of Wellington in an action intended to highlight Maori ownership of Aotearoa New Zealand’s fresh water resources. Flyers stating the position will be handed out, and the public are …
Press Release – Hikoi – Aotearoa Is Not For Sale Palmerston North, Tuesday 1 May 2012: The Hikoi ‘Aotearoa is Not For Sale’ gathered momentum in both Taihape and Palmerston North today. At the same time a successful support demonstration was held in Matamata while a hikoi from the east coast moved …
Press Release – iPredict For the first time since the last election, iPredict expects National to win the next New Zealand General Election, most likely supported by the NZ First Party.
Article – Valerie Morse Starting this week, a nation-wide hikoi is leaving the far north and traveling to Wellington carrying a raft of messages to the government. These include opposition to state asset sales, opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) …
Column – iPredict The 6000 traders on New Zealand’s online predictions market, iPredict, see a Liberal National Party win in Queensland as close to a dead cert with the party expected to win as many as 68 of the 89 seats in the State Parliament.
Column – Gordon Campbell The launching of a Citizens Initiated Referendum on the question of the partial asset sales is a useful shot across the bows of the government’s intentions – although even if the required amount of valid signatures are gathered, it will be mid 2013 …
Press Release – Ohariu Citizens’ Select Committee The community group Ohariu People’s Power is establishing a Citizens’ Select Committee this Thursday at a public meeting in Johnsonville. The committee will give the voters in the Ohariu electorate, and other New Zealanders, a voice as it examines the asset …
Press Release – People’s Power MP Peter Dunne’s silence on how his support for the partial sale of state assets may expose the New Zealand Government to the possibility of being sued by international investors has been challenged by a local group People’s Power Ohariu. The group …
