If any country wishes to withdraw then the process is to give six months notice. So then if the TPPA is such a dastardly power grab I expect Labour to campaign to using this clause, and be swept to 2017 electoral victory on the back of widespread anti-TPPA...
What a shame that so many voters disagreed with you.
They wanted to give us a nuclear submarine in the mid-90s! http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9282669/Russia-offered-MiGs-tanks-to-settle-NZ-debt
If launching an all-out nuclear assault then they wouldn't take the risk of leaving friendly bases where US forces could regather and make repairs. We would hav likely been hit whether we had a US ship docked or not. The Soviets had a couple of important ...
You've never considered the idea that the All Blacks enjoy that the country's PM takes such an avid interest in the game? I played plenty of rugby at Prem and provincial B level, and congratulations in the changing room (not by any Prime Ministers though) ...
Colmar Brunton were the most accurate poll in line with the 2014 election. The don't sample landlines, but would account for that in their methodology. Two polling outfits sample mobiles - Roy Morgan which came middle of the pack, and TV3/Reid Research, ...
"And get this. The one damning statistic, that on these polling numbers National would be out of office WAS NOT EVEN MENTIONED." Big call mate. On these numbers Labour + Greens would also be out of office. It all hinges upon what Winston chooses. I think ...
"But the changes in the poll were all within the margin of error for the poll. Little going down 2% and Jacinta Ardern going up 1% suggests a marginal change if one actually occurred. All of the movements were minor and within the realm of statistical ...
I started reading the article you linked. Looked up the result of the first case. Result - the Loewen Group was denied the right to pursue ISDS arbitration. A pretty rubbish article on the "pernicious lawsuits" when the first example listed was the company...
Pay your rates Penny.
Neither reply addresses the point that the deficit should have been credited to Labour and not National.
Michael Cullen wrote the 2008/09 budget (which was already in deficit at the Aug 2008 PREFU. Yet this deficit is credited to National, not Labour.
Well when even I/S lists the new version of a bill as "essentially a rerun" how are you arguing that the two are not the same in substance? Because that is the crux of the issue - are the bills too similar or not?
The bills are linked to here. http://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/3oto9e/wof_for_rental_properties_bill_blocked_by_speaker/cw0j5nu
"if a major trading partner has sweat shops and employs child labour etc" Macro, you must be rapt with the TPPA including provisions to ban child labour in the member countries then.
China restricts domestic buyers too.
Oh good, so you're banning people for misrepresenting stuff now? You should ban Mickey Savage for the post summary "Hekia Parata has announced that student achievement and not need caused by poverty will be a central part of any future funding system." ...
Well that was well-thought out and factual. I would really hope the school system has improved from the time you went through it.
"The New Zealand Principals' Federation represents more than 2,300 principals from the education sector. The Federation, which was first established in 1982, provides support and a professional voice for members throughout New Zealand, also information and...
A school union jumps the gun in order to criticise the Government. Shock, horror. "‘It is counter-productive to withdraw funding from the very schools that require more support because they have a higher rate of disadvantaged and challenged learners,’ she ...
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Mickey, your summary on the front page doesn't match up with the original (non-opinion) article. "Hekia Parata has announced that student achievement and not need caused by poverty will be a central part of any future funding system." vs "We're very much ...
What, how? The TPPA ISDS clauses don't apply to laws made for public health reasons.
Only the negotiating documents are confidential for four years. The final text is released soon after negotiations are finished.
I think it's 30 days that the final text is released.
The Chinese FTA - signed by Labour under Helen Clark, and where current deputy leader Annette King was a cabinet minister - has ISDS provisions. http://www.chinafta.govt.nz/1-The-agreement/2-Text-of-the-agreement/12-Chapt-11-Investment/0-section11-part2....
As long as the firecracker isn't a "neutron Bomb" MkII.
There's been oil drilling in Maui habitat for decades now. Maui deaths attributed to oil drilling: zero.
What a moron. She wants a range of devices with different voltage/current needs to all fit the same, or a small number of power cords. Manufacturers try to stick to the same standard as much as possible - witness the rise of jug cords for a lot of ...
You forget that National almost won in 2005. Labour had its second-worst defeat ever in 2014.
You didn't answer my question - what is truly the point when it becomes obvious that Corbyn is Michael Foot Mk II? Will it still feel good to know that Labour have chosen a man of principle, despite those principles never seeing Government because the ...
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