A New Zealand where all children can flourish – Child Poverty Action Group
A New Zealand where all children can flourish: Briefing to incoming ministers Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says that with…
Year: 2017
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New Zealand Eateries’ kindness is celebrated with awards – SAFE
SAFE is recognising four restaurants from across the country for their spectacular plant-based menus to mark World Vegan Day. The…
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Gender Equal NZ supports steps by new Govt – Gender Equal NZ
Gender Equal NZ supports steps by new Govt to improve pay equity legislation The National Council of Women President and…
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NZ Joins the Trend for Countries to Say No to ISDS
‘Yesterday’s announcement that the new government has heeded widespread concerns and taken investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) off the table in…
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NZNO Welcomes Minister for Women’s Fast Move
NZNOs Welcome Minister for Women’s Fast Move NZNO applauds the first big move by Minister for Women, Julie Anne Genter…
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Unions relieved to see swift action on better equal pay law – CTU
Unions relieved to see swift action on better equal pay law The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (CTU) is…
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Foreign Buyers – The Villain or the Scape Goat – TOP
Does anyone seriously think that Labour’s first loud policy initiative is anything but window-dressing for the masses, a solution chasing…
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WaateaNews: Māori Home Ownership in Tāmaki Makaurau: Is Auckland’s future an economically gated Pākeha community?
Could the largest Pacific Island and Maori city in New Zealand be unintentionally white washed by Labour’s new affordable housing KiwiBuild project?
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TWITTER WATCH: – Jacinda’s cat has more followers than the Deputy Leader of the National Party
Can there be a more wonderful humiliation?
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Is The Government’s TPP “Solution” Too Good To Be True?
The ISDS provisions of the TPP are the ones permitting foreign investors (a.k.a huge multinational corporations) to sue the New Zealand Government for imposing legislative and/or regulatory restrictions on their existing or proposed investments. Such litigation to occur not in a New Zealand courtroom, in front of a New Zealand judge, but before an international tribunal staffed and adjudicated by the sort of lawyers more usually to be found working for – you guessed it – “huge multinational corporations”.