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A round of TTPA negotiations is underway in Singapore. The excellent Jane Kelsey is leading the critical discussion here in NZ. Meanwhile there is some disturbing information from across the ditch in Aussie, raising the issue of corporate dominance over women's health provisions and the…
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A new Australian report has coined the phrase "angry summer": Angry Summer' made worse by climate change: Commission The latest report from the Federal Government's Climate Commission says the weather extremes experienced around the country this summer were made worse by climate change. The report…
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National's going to spend a million taxpayer dollars just on advertising trying to convince Kiwis to sign up to buy something we already own and just in the 'pre-registration' phase of the Mighty River sale. God knows what the full cost of the sale will…
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Got word of this late - sorry for the short notice. 4 March, 2013 No More Novopain pickets happening all over New Zealand Educators are taking the message that relief from Novopain is urgently needed directly to National MPs tomorrow, with pickets taking place outside…
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After reading Queen of Thorns complaint about the limited gender options in the census, I was considering the census. For me and almost everyone else I know (apart from my brother and a few others) we are devotedly irreligious. But every census they ask us that same…
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Question 25 of the 2013 New Zealand Census asks: Are you: male female Spot the problem. In response to queries on the topic, the very-helpful 2013 Census Twitter account @2013Census has said: We just ask that people mark the response that shows how they are living…
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National have issued the Order in Council to start the sale of Mighty River Power today. So now we get the $1 million dollar advertising campaign starting tomorrow - the only announced progress towards keeping shares in NZ hands. There's still no details about the…
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp are selling their shares in NZ Sky TV. What does these mean for the on-going decline of public broadcasting, and related rise of global corporate control? It will be interesting to see where the shares go. It is possibly part of…
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One of the promises that Key made about asset sales was that Kiwis would be "at the front of the queue". For the past several days, however, there has been speculation that Mighty River Power shares would be listed in Australia: Mighty River shares to…
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The NZ Forestry Sector is completely unmonitored – It is one of our most dangerous industries and no one seems to know what is going on. From my perspective it appears within officialdom and the Forest Owners themselves, no one really cares. There are myths…
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