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 […]

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So the stories about the public sector use of spies and surveillance has disappeared from @NZStuff. Bigger fish to fry. Aggressive vets, lime scooters and punches thrown in coffee bars. stuff.co.nz #SillySeason

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Another news coup (NOT) as @NZStuff takes a pre-digested OIA from the Tax Payer's Union and implies that we should be better served by having public servants negotiate foreign treaties while exhausted from jet lag. stuff.co.nz/national…

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If you haven't read it yet and didn't get it for Christmas get @BWB_NZ 's bwb.co.nz/books/gove… Government for the Public Good by @MaxRashbrooke and put it in first place in your 'to read in 2019' bookshelf.

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@ardrigh It seems locked in but the general move to including transwomen in women's sports could stifle women's involvement completely and sports women are not happy at all. If you look up Hannah Mouncy or read about Fallon Fox & others in this - every sport. wnd.com/2017/03/fema…

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In the 2020 Olympics self-id'ed trans women athletes whose testosterone has been artificially lowered for a year are eligible to compete in ALL women's events. This makes a mockery of women's sport. Many, including some thoughtful trans women, think this is not a good idea. twitter.com/FionneOr…

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@NZStuffPolitics NZ media being played by releasing this sensational 6 month old tape on the SAME DAY that we hear that legislators in the last government were, at the very least, incurious about the public sector's multiple spy contracts.

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@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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