Speech – New Zealand Government Speech to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and Massey University Heritage Hotel, Auckland Embargoed until 1pm Wednesday February 27 2013 Good afternoon. Its a pleasure to be with you again today.
Article – Mark P. Williams PM Press Conference Dominated by Solid Energy Debacle PM Post-Cabinet Press Conference – 25 Feb 2013
Column – Gordon Campbell As one would expect at the outset of the political year, the recent trio of state of the nation addresses have been more about impression management than policy detail. Well aware that his government is increasingly seen as being mere tinkerers …
Column – Gordon Campbell Remember how the Key government has justified being so very, very secretive about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) because goodness me, you don’t negotiate these things in public? Well, guess who has just been negotiating the TPP in public?
Column – Gordon Campbell This sounds cosy. The second inquiry to be launched in the past ten days into the GCSB – this time, into its capabilities, performance and governance – will be carried out by Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Kitteridge of the Department of the Prime Minister …
Press Release – New Zealand Government Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully today announced former Prime Minister Mike Moore will serve a second term as New Zealand’s Ambassador to Washington, and named Leon Grice as the next Consul-General in Los Angeles.
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 – People’s Power This Friday afternoon at 2pm members and supporters of People’s Power Ohariu will gather in front of the office of Ohariu MP Peter Dunne to demonstrate continuing opposition to the government’s Mixed Ownership Model Bill. They have a flag “No …
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.
Press Release – Dr George Laking Representatives of the New Zealand medical community have written to Prime Minister John Key expressing disappointment at his support for New Zealand’s United States Ambassador Mike Moore hosting a tobacco-industry sponsored reception in Washington …
Press Release – Green Party The Government needs to tell the public if it authorised Washington Ambassador Mike Moore’s co-hosting of a dinner party co-sponsored by tobacco giant Philip Morris, Green Party Health Spokesperson Kevin Hague said today.
Press Release – Woburn International The clear left and right divide over the purchase of the 16 North-Island Crafar Farms (7,900 hectares) by the joint venture of Landcorp and the Milk New Zealand Holding (a subsidiary of Chinese investor Shanghai Pexquin Co Ltd.) created media …
