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 …
Prevention of fracking harms would be shackled by trade deal Read More »
Column – United Future NZ Party Despite constant claims that New Zealand follows an independent foreign policy, the truth is that we have never been far from the cringe factor.
Dunne Speaks on Drones, Foreign Policy and Trade Read More »
Column – Gordon Campbell So Labour MP Trevor Mallard has got himself in hot water with Speaker of the House David Carter for tweeting that Mr Speaker seemed to have been acting of late like a Mafia Don running a protection racket on behalf of his colleagues.
Gordon Campbell: NZ secretly agrees to extend copyright term Read More »
Press Release – United States Trade Representative We, the Ministers and Heads of Delegation for Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam have just completed a two-day ministerial meeting during which we reviewed …
Joint Statement at the TPP Ministers Meeting in Singapore Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey At the end of a two-day ministerial meeting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) in Singapore it seems clearer than ever that New Zealand stands to get almost nothing if they do reach a deal, and we will pay a very high price in return, …
Singapore ministerial shows NZ likely to pay price for TPPA Read More »
Press Release – New Zealand Government Trade Minister Tim Groser will depart tomorrow for Qingdao, China to represent the New Zealand Government at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) on 17-18 May.
Minister to visit China, Singapore and Japan Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The government has maintained an absurd veil of secrecy over the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and it keeps getting worse, according to University of Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey.
TPPA secrecy scales bizarre new heights Read More »
Press Release – NZNO The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is one of a more than 260 health sector individuals and organisations to sign an open letter to the Prime Minister today, warning of the threat to New Zealanders health from the Trans-Pacific Partnership …
Open letter to PM: TPPA puts profits before health Read More »
Press Release – It’s Our Future As U.S. President Obama returned from a week of crucial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks, a large, broad-based international campaign took its message to the heart of Washington, D.C. Last night, a projection of a 3.1 million signature petition …
Huge international TPP campaign, 3.1mil signature petition Read More »
Column – Gordon Campbell So after all the years of talk about momentum and claims that significant progress was being made – dutifully reported by the mainstream media – a conclusion to the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal seems as far as away as ever.
Gordon Campbell on the TPP | Lorde whinging about journalism Read More »
Opinion – OpenMedia Its been a wild ride for your small OpenMedia team since the launch of our Stop the Secrecy campaign . In just seven days our campaign has grown to historic proportions, becoming the largest-ever action against the excessive secrecy around the Trans-Pacific …
TPP: 36 hours to #StopTheSecrecy Read More »
Press Release – OpenMedia Together, over 50 international organizations and 2.8 million people have united behind one of the largest online campaigns in history. And, make no mistake, our call to stop the secrecy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is being heard loud …
TPP: 50 orgs, 2.8mil people in Stop the Secrecy campaign Read More »
