This is an article about the suitability of the 279 Page TPP National Impact Analysis (NIA) as a document to inform New Zealanders about the detail of the agreement. The TPPA is complex and multi-facetted but a well-structured, good faith approach would have provided a full report of its impacts intended for a wide public […]
Demands for international and non-partisan approaches emerging from conference.
Speakers at the EYE of the STORM conference in Wellington this week are echoing the call made by Wise Response in 2014. The Wise Response appeal was signed by more than 6000 people including academics, former senior politicians and ordinary New Zealanders. The appeal called for the government to assess the risks in five priority […]
Anti-TPPA tour around NZ : Filling out the picture
When Auckland Law Professor Jane Kelsey and Director and Lori Wallach, Founder of Global Trade Watch, a division of Public Citizen toured NZ this week they conveyed a series of messages that have not had much coverage by the mainstream media. Just for starters had any NZ commentator put two and two together to discover […]
Govt action on climate change? No we’re perfect already
The government says it is leading an international initiative of countries who are looking at how to cut carbon use by cutting fossil fuel subsidies. Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform includes a number of governments, commercial companies, including many from New Zealand, as well as some international environmental organisations*. The idea that there is no […]
When will our government catch on to the Internet of Things?
The Purpose of government? What exactly is the purpose of government? Should it include mitigating risks that apply at a whole of population level? High levels of suicide, perhaps, workplace deaths and injuries, minimising the risk of catastrophic climate change, mitigating population wide health problems like obesity or rheumatic fever and addressing the […]
Scoop Foundation: Why we need it.
The Scoop Foundation: Why we need it I’m a long-time fan of Scoop, and so I’m supporting Scoop’s move from a commercial, advertising-funded model to a community supported model. I’d like to explain why. Like other news media worldwide, Scoop is facing the financial challenges of an advertising base that has been decimated. Scoop needs […]
TPPA: Don’t sign rally and next steps
Anti TPPA March Demands – reproduced from the It’s Our Future Website and read out at 14 rallies nationwide today. A list of demands has been formulated by It’s Our Future and concerned citizens around the country, and was read out at the 14 rallies around the country today. Copies in A4 and A5 can […]
Conference report back
In all about 60 people attended Information, ethics and the public good. We heard a dozen great speakers and had about 4 hours dedicated to debate and discussion focused on what we had heard. A full conference report is in development and the full content of the presentations will be posted here over the next […]
Scoop Foundation: Take back the news
This post is to ask for your support of the new Scoop Foundation for Public Interest Journalism. The foundation is a newly established charitable trust dedicated to helping Scoop Media and public interest journalism flourish in New Zealand. It is Scoop’s response to the worldwide crisis in journalism caused by the dramatic shrinkage of advertising […]
NZ: An outstanding trading nation?
Liam Dann has written a long article on the TPPA in last week’s New Zealand Herald. He’s equivocal about the agreement saying “Movement on dairy was disappointing, but movement was made. A first step, however small, is actually a very important one. It does seem that with regards to specific gains New Zealand only did […]
Helen Kelly’s valedictory speech to the CTU 2015 conference
Here is a link to Helen Kelly’s valedictory speech to the 2015 unions conference as she steps down from her role at the NZ council of Trade Unions due to ill health. The speech has far too many examples where workers and their families have had to spend months and years resorting to the law […]
Introduction to Information, ethics and the public good.
Tena koutou katoa, Ko Jan Rivers toku ingoa. Ko te whakamohiotanga mo te iwi whanui te kaupapa o tenei hui. No reira tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. A warm Welcome everyone who has given their Friday and some of you the weekend to this important topic. I’m Jan Rivers from public good. Conference […]
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