Press Release – AFTINET “The US proposal in the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement for foreign investor rights to sue governments in international tribunals is a challenge to national sovereignty and should be rejected,” Dr Patricia Ranald, Convener of the Australian Fair Trade …
Investor rights to sue governments hotly debated – TPP talks Read More »
Press Release – ItsOurFuture.org.nz Because the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations are both secret and complex, educating people about them calls for creativity!
TPPA cartoon competition winners announced Read More »
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?
Gordon Campbell on ‘political projectile vomiting’ about TPP Read More »
Press Release – Climate Justice Taranaki “The secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations taking place now in Auckland (3-12 Dec) will have huge impacts on New Zealand from environmental protection to access to medicine, labour laws and internet regulations just to name …
TPPA a threat to the environment Read More »
Press Release – Green Party The New Zealand Government needs to lift restrictions on access to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations immediately, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
NZ must lift restrictions on access to TPP talks Read More »
Article – Gordon Campbell For a fresh perspective on the TPP, here is a comprehensive paper on the regional trade talks published late last week by Canadian trade specialist and trade lawyer Peter Clark, of the multinational legal firm Gray, Clark, Shih and Associates. Clark …
Canada Weighs In – Peter Clark on the TPP Read More »
Press Release – Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network “A hot-button issue to be discussed at the Trans-Pacific free trade talks next week is the US proposal for foreign investor rights to sue governments for damages if a law or policy harms their investments,” said Dr Patricia Ranald, Convener …
TPPA Free Trade negotiations resume in Auckland, December 2 Read More »
Press Release – ItsOurFuture.org.nz On 27 November itsourfuture4.localdev will host three of the world’s foremost critical voices on international free trade and investment agreements to explain potential impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
Free Event: TPP Out of the Shadows Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The obsessive secrecy surrounding the Auckland round of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations in Auckland from 3-12 December has plumbed new depths. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) has declined a request for the dates …
TPPA ‘non-transparency’ hits a new low Read More »
Speech – Bruce Jesson Foundation On Wednesday 31 October, Nicky Hager delivered the 2012 Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture to a packed and attentive Maidment Theatre audience. Entitled ‘ Investigative journalism in the age of media meltdown: from National Party Headquarters to Afghanistan ‘, …
Nicky Hager Delivers 2012 Bruce Jesson Lecture Read More »
Press Release – Anti-Bases Campaign The endlessly entertaining saga of Kim Dotcom having been illegally spied upon by the hapless NZ Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) proves that we, the Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC), can justifiably say “we told you so”. For many years …
A Dotcomedy Of Errors. GCSB Illegally Spies On NZers. Read More »
