Resources
Backgrounders
All that glitters is not gold, by Murray Horton
An edited version of this article, written in the light of the Crafar Farms sale, was published on the Perspective page of the Press (7/2/12), under the title "Foreign Ownership Of Our Land Gives Overseas Investors Power".
A Beginner's Guide to Foreign Control, by Murray Horton (DOC 234KB)
Fifty pages of facts and analysis - the basis of many of Murray's speeches around the country. He regularly updates it: this is the July 2000 version.
Foreign Investment in New Zealand, by Bill Rosenberg (PDF 298KB)
One of the most thorough analyses of Aotearoa/New Zealand's international investment position available. This was published as Chapter 1 of "Foreign Investment: The New Zealand Experience", edited by Peter Enderwick, 1997. (A PDF - Acrobat - file.)
Corporate Code Of Responsibility
CAFCA's Corporate Code of Responsibility for Transnational Corporations TNCs operating in this country. (An HTML - Web - document.)
Movies
"Islands Of The Empire" by Vanguard Films was the definitive documentary on all aspects of the NZ/US political and military relationship. It was filmed at that critical historical point in the mid-1980s just before when, as a result of the massive peace movement and a change of Government, NZ went nuclear free and got kicked out of ANZUS. Both of those are still current today.
Vanguard Films is an independent film producer which has made many documentaries including some stunning exposés and analyses of the way the new right took over New Zealand politics in the 1980s and 1990s and rammed through its policies - and the disastrous effects on New Zealanders. Some of their most powerful films are now available free to view online and download.
Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa,
P.O. Box 2258
Christchurch 8140.