Carbon farming spawns perfect storm of environmental, economic harm New Zealand’s commitment to the flawed Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is causing environmental, economic and social…
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Chief Reporter – May 19 2025 The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) says the big Australian-owned banks that dominate NZ’s economy continue to…
Roger Award Organisers Decide To Let Somebody Else Have A Go 11 June 2003 In the same sporting spirit that saw the Crusaders let someone…
Michael Gilchrist, Prue Hyman and Glenn and Sukhi Turner, 25.2.2002 The judges for the Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation operating in 2001 in…
Chief Reporter There really is a Santa Claus. And he has been revealed to be the most unlikely of people, namely the Commissioner of Inland…
Chief Reporter Helen Clark is currently back in the country to bask in the glow of the warm fuzzies. So it’s very timely to look…
These below two quotes are both from actual (separate) monthly Decisions of the Overseas Investment Office, both from February 2010. Note the sentences in each…
Get Used To It. This Is What A “Free” Trade Agreement Looks Like Chief Reporter The most unbelievably naïve reaction to the news that a…
Chief Reporter Talks started in Melbourne today for the US, Australia, Peru and Vietnam to join an expanded Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP, currently comprising…
Learn From Sad Experience Of US’ “Chief Ally”. Chief ReporterNew Zealanders who kid themselves that “we” stand to gain from a Free Trade Agreement with…
Chief Reporter Maurice Williamson, the Minister of Land Information, is obviously having none of this PC nonsense being spouted by his boss. In relation to…
Chief Reporter – 30-08-2010 The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) congratulates the newly formed Save The Farms group, which has called for an…
How American unions and consumers won their rights Gregory Palast I want to tell you a secret. American consultants have sold the world on the…
By Bill Rosenberg There are vital constitutional and policy implications in the controversy over the Singapore free trade agreement (officially called a “Closer Economic Partnership”…
By Jane Kelsey Imagine the Government has announced a new law that would prohibit any future government from ever reintroducing tariffs on anything, while it…