National and Labour singing the same old economic song
The Alliance Party says National and Labour are squabbling over meaningless details of economic policy while the gap between wage rates in New Zealand and Australia grows larger. Continue reading →
View ArticleA big day for a tiny tax on 22 June
Wednesday 22 June 2011 has been declared a “big day for a tiny tax”, highlighting the need for a worldwide financial transactions tax to curb financial speculation and provide the necessary funds to...
View ArticleAlliance joins condemnation of NZ Ambassador to US Moore’s party for...
The Alliance Party wants to know why the government allowed our US Ambassador, Mike Moore, to host a Trans Pacific Partnership Governors and Ambassadors World Trade Reception on Friday night sponsored...
View ArticlePatents and Intellectual Property Rights: Corporate Power vs The Common Good
One of the Alliance Party’s worst fears around the TPP has been confirmed by the text from the agreement released by Wikileaks recently. The U.S. is pushing for much stricter patent controls. Patents...
View ArticleSecrets, Lies, and Trade in Services Agreements
We thought the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement was bad. And then there was TISA. TISA is a world wide Trade in Service Agreement being negotiated in secret. Even though New Zealand is one of...
View ArticleAnother Free Trade Deal – Big Deal!
The free trade deal with South Korea is hardly earth shattering news. Yet it is being seriously hyped up by the government and those industries that might benefit eventually – the deal takes a full 15...
View ArticleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership Charade
The Trans-Pacific is a corporate raid. It’s about stealing our sovereignty and killing democracy. Investor-state dispute settlement provisions mean that when big corporates tell us to jump, the only...
View ArticleGST Is Past Its Use By Date
GST was first introduced in 1986. Most workplaces used typewriters. Businesses were coming to grips with the fax machine. EFTPOS was still in its trial phase. There was no internet in New Zealand....
View ArticleCompass Group – Pointing Us In The Wrong Direction?
Why is Health Benefits Ltd hell bent on installing transnational corporation Compass Group as sole provider of food services nationwide for our health sector for the foreseeable future and beyond? So...
View ArticleAbout Our New Zealand Flag…
It is ironic that New Zealanders are holding a discussion about our national flag, the symbol of our sovereignty, when our government is handing our country to multi national corporations, quite...
View ArticleHawaii: A Watershed For The TPP?
Despite the hype, trade negotiators walked away from the latest round of Trans Pacific Partnership talks. They put on a brave face. They were 98% in agreement, so they say. And each participating...
View ArticleThrow Away the TPPA; Let’s Talk About What A Decent Trade Deal Should Look Like
The New York Times reported after the recently failed round of talks that one of the TPP negotiators has privately admitted that it is now almost easier to say “no” to the TPP than “yes”. It’s time to...
View ArticleThe Corporate Con
Most of our elected officials want to do the right thing. They want everyone to have a reasonable standard of living. But they are being led astray. Corporate heads tell our politicians that they can...
View ArticleFair Trade Agreements Are The Way Of The Future
Many New Zealanders have spent the best part of the last two years fighting that misnamed “free trade” agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), with no end in sight. And now we have its spawn,...
View ArticleTPP Trade Off
Our government votes on the TPP Agreement Amendment Bill next week. It is a futile gesture. The United States has pulled the plug on the TPP. President Obama has said that he will not try to pass the...
View ArticleMondelez – The Good News And The Bad News
The good news is that Mondelez International (which owns, amongst many things, Cadbury in Dunedin) reported a first quarter 2017 operating profit of 39.4%. It is paying out a quarterly dividend of...
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