TPPA

December 18, 2017 by Jan Rivers

Was the China FTA a positive for New Zealand?

As the NZ government is considering signing up to the TPPA next year it might be worth looking at the effects of trade deals already in place. Although the Australian Closer Economic Relationship (CER) agreement pre-dates the 10 year old China FTA has wrought the greatest recent change. We are advised by both major political […]

December 4, 2017 by Jan Rivers

The New Zealanders involved in Brexit

Usually New Zealand is proud to own its overseas sons & daughters – sports people, business leaders, arts and culture sector successes and even one-time politicians – with endless media coverage, and the news arising from the visit last week of the UK’s Trade Secretary Liam Fox to New Zealand for trade talks for a […]

October 27, 2017 by Jan Rivers

TPPA-11 negotiations: Not just about the housing speculators.

Corrected to restate the situation with respect to water management (21/11/2017) lines have been struck out and added below. On paper the new government’s policy on trade agreements is really pretty good. Free trade is needed, says the Labour Party, but must involve more consultation with more parties across society and address concerns about reining […]

@matroked @NewshubNZ Conduct unbecoming from @NewshubNZ and Tova O'Brien. It was after all the public servants who let down their Minister and @NZNationalParty who had the inside story to leak.

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman Having said all that I do think there is room for accommodation, compromise and debate (although too late for NZ's law). I've been meeting with & putting out feelers to people but many are terrified of the blow back.

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman Of which the undebated & anti-democratic NZ BDRRM Bill is just one example. So I have full empathy (& quite some personal familiarity & understanding) of people with dysphoria. But my political priorities are the rights of lesbians, natal women and they also extend to gay men.

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman Or the explicit & covert work to replace sex with gender & give preference to trans over gay people in international & national law through the Jogjakarta principles and other related initiatives. tandfonline.com/doi/…

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman Or this well funded UK survey & research project. The survey is impossible to answer as a woman or man. It only makes "sense" to people who believe that sex is malleable & gender exists. futureoflegalgender.… It is flawed "research" where only one conclusion is possible.

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman When I looked more closely at where this is heading politically - the extinguishment of natal women as a distinct class of people - I decided to speak and write about it. Like this UK Professor Gender Studies for example mobile.twitter.com/s…

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@golrizghahraman You are an MP. You have accused a specific, named young woman of causing hate & violence. That I imagine is at least technically a defamation. You are also flat out saying that by not believing men can become women a person is hateful. Nothing to see here?

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The defamatory comments directed at Gender Critical commentators by Jan Logie, @golrizghahraman Louisa Wall & others is a new & deeply worrying trend in politics. They are saying that freedom of belief no longer applies to some people. #endofpluralism

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The review of government algorithms is an area of particular interest and there is a chance for civil society representation in that review. You can contact @ogpnz to request to be kept up to date with this or any of the goals.

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A few days ago the third Open Government Partnership Action Plan was launched. Its been pretty well consulted on & has some pretty decent goals. :-) ogp.org.nz/new-zeala… @ogpnz

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