PM welcomes visit of Singapore PM
Press Release – New Zealand Government Prime Minister John Key will host Singapore’s Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong when he visits New Zealand next week.
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Trade Agreements
Key’s Hollywood romance is about the TPP
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The focus on the Kim Dotcom saga misses the deeper significance of Prime Minister John Key’s trip to Hollywood, said Professor Jane Kelsey from the University of Auckland. “The entertainment industry is the principal driver of US demands for …
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Pharmac Under Attack by Pharmaceutical Industry
Press Release – NZNO The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) rejects the pharmaceutical industry’s contention that Pharmac will not be affected by the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) currently being negotiated between eleven Asian and Pacific-rim countries …
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Gordon Campbell on the Kitteridge inquiry into the GCSB
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 …
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Pharmac Under Attack by Pharmaceutical Industry
Press Release – NZNO The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) believes the role of drug-buying agency PHARMAC will change radically under the terms of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) currently being negotiated between 11 Asian and Pacific-rim countries including …
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Gordon Campbell on John Banks, and Japanese politicking
Column – Gordon Campbell Don’t ask, don’t tell. The “gays in the military” strategy that John Key has chosen to adopt with respect to the John Banks Affair is daily calling for more and more implausible declarations of prophylactic ignorance by the Prime Minister.
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Gordon Campbell on journalism, and John Armstrong
Column – Gordon Campbell Watching a round of hair pulling and name-calling between journalists is rarely a rewarding sight, so I apologise in advance to anyone of a nervous or irritable disposition for this morning’s column. Allegedly, I have been unfair and mean to John Armstrong …
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National MPs shut down health debate
Press Release – New Zealand Labour Party National Party members on the Health Select Committee have now twice refused to allow experts to brief the committee about possible effects of the Trans Pacific Partnership on New Zealand’s ability to determine its own health policies, Labour’s Health spokesperson …
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Gordon Campbell on APEC, and its significance for TPP talks
Column – Gordon Campbell Once upon a time, the APEC gathering of nations threatened to become a significant free trade bloc in its own right. Remember the Bogor Goals of 1994? But these days, not so much, apart from a bit of fiddling around with eco-friendly tariff levels.
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TPP Must Not Trade Away Free Speech and Health
Press Release – Amnesty International Negotiators from nine countries gathering outside Washington DC to draft a new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement must ensure that any new rules on copyright and patents adhere to core principles of transparency and uphold human rights, Amnesty …
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Finish an ambitious TPP in 2013 say business leaders
Press Release – NZUS Council 4 September 2012 Finish an ambitious TPP in 2013, say Asia Pacific business leaders On the eve of the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting to be in held in Vladivostok, Russia, business organisations from around the APEC region have once again joined …
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Tobacco fight at Trans-Pacific free trade negotiations
Press Release – AFTINET “Thirty trade unions, church, environment, health and other community groups have written to the Trade Minister urging him to implement his policy of opposing the right of corporations to sue governments in international tribunals in the 14th round …
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