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The
Roger Award
Privatisation
by Stealth
News
media ownership
Public
ownership pledge from the 2007 local government
election and the successful candidates who declared
their position on it.
Press
statements
Backgrounders
Submissions by CAFCA
The problems of free trade, investment
and globalisation
The electricity deforms
Miscellany - Bill
Rosenberg's address to the CAFCA AGM
All
are documents in Word format unless otherwise stated
New The
winner(s) of the
2009 award have been announced.
Details of winners in previous years, who the judges are, what
the Roger Award for The Worst Transnational Corporation Operating
in New Zealand is, and the Judges' Reports for the 2000-2008 Roger
Awards.
Privatisation
by Stealth
On
the day of the event announcing the 11th Roger
Award in March 2008, the 10th anniversary of the award, a conference
was held called "Privatisation
by Stealth" [146KB PDF file].
The speakers were:
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Laila
Harre, former Cabinet Minister - on the internal and external
pressures on Government to privatise (copy not available).
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Sue Newberry, Associate Professor of Accounting,
University of Sydney - on the structures in place which enable
some
privatisation initiatives to proceed without the public
being aware - slides from
her presentation [171KB PDF file].
You
can hear a Radio New Internationalist programme,
"Privatisation continued", with Laila, Bill, and South
African anti-privatisation activist,
Silumko Radebe from the South African Anti Privatization
Forum, at http://www.newint.org/.
Click on 'Radio' on the contents bar at the top of the page.
Who
owns who in the Aotearoa/New Zealand news media (latest
version available 13 Sepember 2008).
A Beginner's Guide to
Foreign Control, Foreign Investment in New Zealand, Corporate Code
Of Responsibility...
CAFCA
submission and other material on the Overseas Investment Bill 2005
This replaced
the long-existing Overseas Investment Act, with many significant
changes, many for the worse, a few for the better.
CAFCA
submission on the International Treaties Bill
The International Treaties
Bill was introduced by Keith Locke MP, and followed a series of similar
proposed bills brought forward by other MPs. Its objective is to improve
the process of public information and consultation on international
agreements (such as trade agreements), and to make them subject to
Parliamentary approval before they are signed and ratified. Currently
there are no such rules for consultation, and the Cabinet has power
to approve such agreements (although the Labour/Alliance government
has agreed to a non-binding Parliamentary vote).
Also: submissions on the
Singapore free trade agreement 2000, Economic and trade relationships
with Australia 2000, Telecommunications Inquiry 2000, Electricity
Inquiry 2000, APEC Inquiry submission 1998, Overseas Investment Act
amendments: 1994 and 1998...
The Globalisation
of Poverty, Free trade and New Zealand agriculture, Equity Conflicts
in Environment and Trade, Free Trade versus economic development ...
WTO
A new round
of negotiations is underway.
The proposed
New Zealand-Hong Kong Free Trade and Investment Agreement
The
New Zealand and Hong Kong governments are currently engaged in “exploratory
talks” with the aim of negotiating a free trade and investment agreement.
Though the government has failed to release any details of what is
proposed to the public, a paper by Bill Rosenberg finds that if such
an agreement is based on the recently ratified Singapore-New Zealand
Closer Economic Partnership, an existing Investment Promotion and
Protection Agreement, and the WTO, it presents numerous dangers to
New Zealand.
APEC
Foreign Investment and
APEC, Implications of the APEC agenda, APEC Inquiry submission 1998,
After APEC ...
The Singapore
Free Trade Agreement
Submissions on the agreement
by CAFCA and Jane Kelsey, articles on how it affects investment, our
sovereignty, economic development …
Proposed US-NZ
Free Trade Agreement
What price free trade with the U.S?
Economic relationships
with Australia
A
submission by CAFCA covering investment and a single currency with
Australia.
Mike Moore, WTO Director-General
Review of Moore's latest
book, Mike Moore: A view from New Zealand ...
Electricity Inquiry 2000,
Electricity regulation in the US, The Privatisation of New Zealand's
Electricity Services, Power Frenzy: the takeover of the electricity
industry, The Deformation: "Reforms" continue to wreck the
electricity industry ...
New Bill
Rosenberg's address to the CAFCA AGM; Campaign
to Keep
Our Port Public (separate web site); News
media ownership in New Zealand (latest
version September 2008); Suharto and crony investments
in New Zealand; Overseas investment statistics from the Overseas
Investment Commission, 1998; The problem is not savings but investment,
...
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