We’re not alone in opposing the TPPA
…the TPPA and FTAs. As with New Zealand, TPPA negotiations in Malaysia and Japan were secret. And conducted in English. As soon as the Japanese government released the TPPA text,…
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The TPPA is a game changer
…as if things could get worse for them – and for a lot of other New Zealanders too. I’m talking about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. The TPPA. And a group…
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UPDATED: Cuppa tea time for the TPPA
…TPPA. The Crown refused, on account of the TPPA being secret and all. The Tribunal said they would keep any documents confidential. The Crown refused on the basis that it…
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TPPA. “By the people, for the people?”
So they did it. They finalised the TPPA. But it will be hard for us to get our heads around the official TPPA (Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement) fact sheets just released…
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The Whole World Is Watching
…Against TPPA to talk to audiences in four cities over there. The Japanese want to hear different perspectives about the opposition to the TPPA. And I’ve been asked to talk…
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Different deal — same stink “consultation”
…TPPA — except China is the big cheese, not the US. For New Zealand, the RCEP is a backstop to the TPPA. Because the good news is that politicians and…
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Mike Hosking’s Tribunal Tribulations
…tribunal is your one-stop shop. Okay, not gonna bite. See above. Next, Mike alludes to the urgency claim filed against the TPPA. Harrumph, he reckons: What can the tribunal do,…
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Imagining an even better deal for Māori
…a biggie. The Waitangi Tribunal report on the TPPA found that the main digital trade rules in the TPPA (which are the same as those in the UK FTA) “breached…
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Jane Kelsey: Truth to Power — the critical legal academic as licensed subversive
…anti-mining and climate activists, and ordinary citizens, ran through the six years’ opposition to the TPPA. Rather too successfully for some. Appealing to an inverted notion of academic freedom, Fran…
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Confused about tikanga? Join the club
…Waitangi Day. Kingi Taurua knows all about that. “Because of concerns around the TPPA, Ngāpuhi held a hui and voted that the PM wouldn’t be invited to the marae. And…
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Moana Maniapoto: Small steps, big kaupapa
Oriini Kaipara, Rangi McLean and Taaniko Nordstrom have all had their images stolen and misused by others for profit. Since the TPPA, and the Waitangi Tribunal claim that followed those…
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A brand-new princess of colour – is it black and white?
…adequately protect Maori interests in relation to cultural knowledge and practices. Shamefully but predictably, the Government has ignored the 2011 Waitangi Tribunal report. Hmmm. TPPA. Indigenous rights. Intellectual property ……
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Dividing a nation – or healing the past?
…— in education, health, justice, housing, and Treaty settlements. All the way through to the Dawn Raids and to next month’s TPPA signing. We believe that discussing some of those…
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Waitangi and the virtue of uncertainty
…and attention, for which Waitangi Day becomes a kind of cultural and political lightning rod. This year it is the approaching local signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). Some…
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Morgan Godfery — politics is in the blood
…with the TPPA protest just last month. Māori were at the forefront of that. In fact, Māori dominated that protest. So, I think that’s probably an indication that there’s a…
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Tamsin Hanly: Kiwi kids need to learn our New Zealand history
…Unit 6 is the final book which goes from the first encounter that Māori had with Pākehā in the 1820s, right through to the TPPA. It’s a really comprehensive timeline….
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Moana Maniapoto: Hands off our images
…shouldn’t be up to volunteers to mobilise every time this happens. There needs to be policy, guidelines and legislation.” And that will get harder with the TPPA and other major…
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Moana Maniapoto: Making Māori visible through our songs
…movement on lots of issues — and te reo is one of them. Take, for example, the issue of the TPPA where there’s a huge risk that Māori interests would…
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Māmari Stephens: Can we learn from what’s happened in Trump-land?
…about the rise of Trump. On the other hand, many Māori are probably happy, no doubt, that TPPA is dead. I tweeted on Wednesday night about how happy I was…
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James Papali’i: The road to change
…about. James on his Harley-Davidson leading the TPPA protest in Auckland. (Photo: Nguyen van Tuan ©) Most people think that gangs are a front for drug dealing and that the…
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