When he was speaking on Radio New Zealand yesterday morning Minister David Parker said that government infrastructure projects would now have to go through the courts now instead of ISDS. He may have been referring to this in the national interest analysis...
Thanks. The figures I sourced were from a KPMG report containing only Overseas Investment reported data - so just the larger investments. I got daunted by the complexity of it. The Stats NZ information which was fuller is very technical and I've asked for ...
Thanks again belatedly. That's really kind. Like the TPPA interview - from David Parker - it's not really dead until it's dead! Let's hope Labour commit now to the process that is in their manifesto.
... in that original analysis in Jan 2016 (page 16) as a...
The point about the 80% of investment from TPPA countries coming from Australian (or about 1/2 of the total) is that it represents the stock (or current total) of existing investment and not the annual flows of inward investment which are changing rapidly ...
Eek Thanks Yes -a typo crept in :-(
:-) Thanks. It's a guess but some other picks have been right about the current government's trajectory so why not have a go!
According to Andrew Geddis any agreement will have to go back to Parliament at least in NZ. Is that what you meant - that this step would not be necessary? His argument looks pretty convincing. https://www.pundit.co.nz/content/why-the-tpp11-will-have-to-go...
The PM and Trade Minister can hardly be seen not to try. The messaging on this stuff has to be pretty subtle. That's why the petition with 91,000 signatures had to come off the Labour Party website. That's why the page "Our position on the TPPA" - http://...
But the banning of speculative housing is the least of it. I've checked and am pretty sure the "policy space" that NZ has reserved in water management in the TPPA does not even include the export of bottled water - one of the most contentious issues of ...
Any trade agreement with the EU would not have ISDS. Stephen Jacobi confirmed this in Radio NZ this morning. The enforcement mechanism without ISDS is the national court where the aggrieved corporate is making the case it has lost out. Ultimately this is a...
At the very least there should be an audit of the legislation that will suddenly be very difficult to pass when TPP-11 is in place. I'm pretty sure the bottled water royalty legislation allowing foreign corporates to be charged will also have to be passed ...
I get depressed when democracy is presented as a problem here Micky. In any case the possibility, suggested on Radio NZ this morning, is that both parties will be asked to ratify a deal by NZ First before the decision and announcement is made. The benefit ...
I had a crack at the reasons for Greens Labour NZ First to work together which contains some of the reasons why not. http://www.publicgood.org.nz/2017/09/27/pollyanna-politics-the-positive-possibilities-of-the-red-green-and-black/ Realistically anything is...
I think any look at the role of the Māori seats should be undertaken as part of a piece of work on the constitution and I've had a go at describing the common ground between the Greens, Labour and New Zealand First. The areas of overlap are significant . ...
The Labour Party has a policy on the TPPA. It is here. http://www.labour.org.nz/our_position_on_the_tpp Sadly the policy cannot be found on the website under the policy heading leading me to speculate that there is a risk the final policy will be less ...
To go further on your idea of ":another sort of power" there is another set of related ideas - of power for, power to, power on behalf of, power with - the forms of power that wisely used support empowerment and self-determination; the power to hold the ...
You write this often - but you always fail to mention that it is the National Party's intention to reduce GDP to 26-27% of GDP by providing only targeted (So called "social investment" based) rather than universal services whereas Labour / Greens intend to...
So the figures show that the poorer 50% of New Zealanders make only about 4.5% of the income. 1% of New Zealanders are homeless. 7% are in nett debt. I imagine that means that 50% of the population know what it's like to be a short distance from disaster. ...
That's a good point and its true. They also have a higher ceiling of public spending compared with National who are headed on a track of greater and greater austerity down to 26-27% of GDP. A Labour Green government would be spending an additional $2-3bn ...
That's funny because the most extreme policies proposed by ACT managed to make it into National's Agenda. Why would you not think that Labour would adopt the Green's policies as well as those of NZF to put together coherent programme? You seem to suggest ...
Slightly tangential to the topic but Scoop is holding a consultation on making housing affordable using the HiveMind platform – a modern civics application that supports text analysis of different viewpoints and uses smart machine learning. When you have ...
Scoop is holding a consultation on housing using the HiveMind platform - a modern civics application that supports text analysis of different viewpoints. There is plenty of information on the page but essentially we have sourced ideas from across the ...
Scoop's "Open the Election" has reached the $30K goal a few hours ago with four hours to run. It's possible the funds might get to $33k if the current rate of pledges continues. Much happiness all round! All pledges welcome.
Scoop is keen to adopt PressPatron for future funding as otherNZ news/blogs/commentary sites have. Public Address is one. That allows for one-off and recurring donations.
Just over $4,000 to reach the goal. Every dollar counts and pledges start at $5.00. Can you chip in? When the funds are raised one of the things we will do is to start work on some large scale online debates using Scoop's HiveMind platform to address some ...
A good April Fool's could cover how the bottom has fallen out of the seasteading market now that New Zealand citizenship is for sale so readily. At $1m dollars the investment is significantly less than building, equipping and staffing a floating island. ...
+1 excellent thinking on this greywarshark and thanks for the tip about Amy Fletcher. Frequent and meaningful public engagement needs to be part of future policy and yet how far we are from that now. I'm involved in planning some lectures at St Andrews on ...
Raf Manji's interests are far more varied and progressive that those of the National Party He is interested in and supportive of: independent journalism, social enterprise, innovation and entrepreneurial approaches to business universal basic income and ...
Wayne, The problem was not with the Cullen Reddy report which was regarded by many as pretty good. Perhaps you are not aware that the current bill - the New Zealand Intelligence and Security Bill - currently in the House ignored many of those ...
It's a bit more complicated that the article implies. Its poor optics, unsubtle. clumsy and creates an incendiary environment but its not quite all it seems. Isn't the closest equivalent in NZ terms is like being locked out of the post-cabinet press ...
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