Press Release – Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network The 12th round of Trans-Pacific partnership (TPP) negotiations begins in Dallas, Texas today between Australia, the US, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam, amid criticism by fair trade groups and prominent lawyers.
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey More than 100 jurists from New Zealand and other countries currently or potentially engaged in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, including some of their most eminent lawyers, ave sent an open letter to the negotiators calling for the right …
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Press Release – NZUS Council The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) could deliver substantial gains to the New Zealand economy, delegates will be told at the NZ US Council’s 10th Anniversary Conference in Auckland tomorrow.
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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.
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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.
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Press Release – Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network The 11th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement negotiations between Australia, the US, New Zealand, Malaysia and four other countries ends today, slowed again by resistance to US corporate demands on medicine prices and broad investor …
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Press Release – NZUS Council The NZ US Council will be represented at the eleventh round of negotiations to expand the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) being held in Melbourne next week. “Since the broad outlines of TPP were released at APEC in Honolulu last November negotiators …
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Press Release – Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network Tuesday February 28, 2012 The 11th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement negotiations between Australia, the US, New Zealand, Malaysia and four other countries starts in Melbourne on March 1. Civil society groups from those countries …
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Column – Paul G. Buchanan – A Word From Afar Paul Buchanan writes: One of the interesting aspects of the leaked emails between Foreign Minister Murray McCully and MP Johns Hayes, a former diplomat, is the latter’s mention of the need to “resist” China’s growing presence in the South Pacific…
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Press Release – Australian Fair Trade Network Media Alert Thursday February 23, 2012 Public Health groups, Unions demand Fair Deal or No Deal in Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations; events list Melbourne March 1-9 The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations between …
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Press Release – iPredict Bashar al-Assad will survive the month as President of Syria, trading by the 6000 traders on New Zealand’s online prediction market, iPredict, suggests. Contracts predicting whether or not he will survive in March, April and May have been launched …
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Press Release – New Zealand Government Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and John Key met for the annual Australia-New Zealand Leaders’ meeting in Melbourne on 29 January. Their meeting was followed by the second Joint Meeting of Australian and New Zealand Cabinet Ministers.
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