Column – Gordon Campbell Let’s hope Prime Minister John Key looks and listens during this weeks overseas trip to Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Brazil. Theres so much he could learn. In Brazil, Key could benefit from seeing the steps this economic powerhouse is taking …
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Press Release – New Zealand Nurses Organisation The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is concerned that, despite the Prime Minister’s previous assurances that the fundamentals of New Zealand’s drug buying agency Pharmac would be protected during trade talks, the opposite appears to be the case.
Secret trade deal will affect the cost of health care in NZ Read More »
Column – Gordon Campbell New Zealand has been hosting the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks in Auckland for the past week, but you’d have to say things haven’t worked out quite as well as some had hoped. In fact, it has been a bit sad to watch, up close.
Gordon Campbell: NZ’s embarrassing TPP overtures to the US Read More »
Column – Gordon Campbell While John Key was in Los Angeles wooing the US studio executives at dinner to bring more film projects to New Zealand, a significant piece of mutual wooing was almost simultaneously taking place on the other side of the Pacific rim.
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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.
Gordon Campbell on APEC, and its significance for TPP talks Read More »
Press Release – International Business Forum The New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF) congratulates outgoing Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard on his appointment as Executive Director of APEC.
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Speech – New Zealand Government Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak today at the launch of the ANZ India New Zealand Business Forum’s India Viewpoint. I want to commend ANZ for this initiative and the advice to business that it has compiled about how to succeed in India.
Address to ANZ India Viewpoint Launch and Business Forum Read More »
Press Release – NZUS Council The announcement that Canada is joining the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations shows that progress is being made in building an open and inclusive agreement, said the NZUS Council.
NZUS Council welcomes Canada to TPP negotiations Read More »
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.
iPredict: National/NZ First Government picked for 2014 Read More »
Article – Valerie Morse Starting this week, a nation-wide hikoi is leaving the far north and traveling to Wellington carrying a raft of messages to the government. These include opposition to state asset sales, opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) …
Anti-capitalism must feature at hikoi against asset sales Read More »
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 …
TPPA Negotiations Slowed By Resistance To US Demands Read More »
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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