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The latest on the fight against TPPA
Five and a half years is enough! The obsessive secrecy that shrouds the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations was challenged in the High Court in Wellington on Monday. The case...
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Helen Clark needs to heed her own UN advisers on TPPA
‘In standing beside National Prime Minister John Key and appearing to endorse the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) Helen Clark has forgotten the most vulnerable New Zealanders who will bear...
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MUST READ: Sober reflections on the TPPA deal – and why we need to keep fighting
After five and a half years Tim Groser and co finally did the deal. This was the worst possible day to be flying for 26 hours, trying to catch up with the details and unable to respond to media calls...
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EXCLUSIVE: My response to the Official Information Act win against the TPPA
I wanted to let the dust settle before writing about Justice Collins’ decision this week that Trade Minister Tim Groser acted unlawfully when he refused to release any information relating to the...
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EXCLUSIVE: Jane Kelsey responds to Catherine Beard’s pro TPPA column
On 22 October 2015 the NZ Herald published an extraordinary piece of contorted logic by Catherine Beard, who claimed the right of foreign investors to sue nation states through investor-state dispute...
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EXCLUSIVE: Jane Kelsey – TPPA HAS NOT BEEN SIGNED. Crucial protest on 14 Nov
The fact many people think the TPPA is a done deal and there’s nothing we can do shows how effective the government’s propaganda campaign has been. That’s what they need people to believe so they can...
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BREAKING: TPPA text finally released – too little, too late!
‘Today’s release of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement text ends the farcical situation where governments were touting the benefits for the nation with no prospect of any independent assessment...
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EXCLUSIVE: OPEN LETTER FROM JANE KELSEY TO LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE
Dear Labour Party Conference Labour caucus’ five non-negotiable bottom lines for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement were pathetic enough, especially when compared to the comprehensive remit from...
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BREAKING: Offshore confirmation: Ministers to sign TPPA in NZ on 4 February 2016
The ministers from the twelve countries who negotiated the the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will sign it in New Zealand on 4 February, a government spokesperson from Chile has confirmed....
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EXCLUSIVE: An open invitation from Professor Jane Kelsey
Ever heard Lori Wallach talk about the stark realities of US politics on the TPPA? If you have, you won’t want to miss her again! If you haven’t, this is a once in a lifetime chance to hear her on how...
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TPPA:Don’t Sign – Fill the Auckland Town Hall tomorrow (Tues) 7pm
PM John Key and his National government say most Kiwis support the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and those who don’t are ignorant or manipulated. Show him he’s wrong. Hear dynamic, funny, and...
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Government try and ram through TPPA without NZers noticing
Talk about dirty politics and desperation! Last week National announced it was fast tracking the report from the Foreign Affairs Trade and Defence Committee on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement...
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EXCLUSIVE: Waitangi Tribunal ruling on TPPA –“it was unlikely that the...
The Waitangi Tribunal’s report on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is a paradox. Time and again the Tribunal says it is ‘troubled’ and ‘concerned’ about aspects of the TPPA and its...
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EXCLUSIVE: China trying to force their version of TPPA on us now!
If you were breathing a sigh of relief that the TPPA may fall to the vagaries of US politics – perhaps the only good thing to come out of either a Clinton or Trump win, if they actually do as they say...
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Brexit result shows democratic rejection of neoliberalism
Brexit has shone daylight on a crisis that’s been brewing for several decades. The utopian proclamation by Francis Fukuyama about the ‘end of history’, in the heyday of globalisation, has succumbed to...
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EXCLUSIVE: The NZ Labour Party can no longer avoid the elephant in the room
Do you hear the people sing. Singing the songs of angry (wo)men. It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again. When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a...
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EXCLUSIVE: Jane Kelsey – Why you must rally against the TPPA this Saturday
You would have to be blind, deaf and very stupid not to recognise that the economic model on which the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), and all the other acronyms that peddle the same toxic...
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The Corporate Plutocracy and Mega Oligopolies are still plotting TPPA
Rust never sleeps. Nor do the ideologues and corporate moguls who are desperate to conclude their interlocking raft of mega-deals against a turning tide. There are various ways to analyse this...
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TiSA called ‘worse than the TPPA’; McClay retreats down secrecy rabbit hole –...
While attention focuses on the fate of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) many of its key elements have been flipped across to the equally secretive negotiations in Geneva for the Trade in...
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John Key & National ram through TPPA minus any real scrutiny
In a few hours the Key government will take the next step to railroad through the legislation to implement the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). There were relatively few submissions,...
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