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Selling State Assets to Mum & Dad When They Already Own Them
Friday, 23 December 2011, 3:49 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The announcement that Mighty River Power will be the first State asset to be put on the market simply confirms the wrongheadedness of this policy, for which the Government does not have a mandate, despite its claims to the contrary (every single poll on ... More >>
New Zealand Is Not For Sale
Thursday, 31 March 2011, 4:50 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The November 26 election is one of the most important in decades. Both major parties are committed to policies by which the New Zealand economy is even more dominated by transnational corporations; more and more of our farmland is owned by foreigners; ... More >>
Precedent For Overseas Investment Office
Thursday, 23 December 2010, 2:55 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Refusal Of Natural Dairy Bid For Crafar Farms Sets Precedent For Overseas Investment Office The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) congratulates both the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) and the Government for having refused the application ... More >>
Public Opposition to Land Sales Forces Backdown
Monday, 27 September 2010, 3:58 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
When Bill English announced yet another review of the Overseas Investment Act, in early 2009, he said that its recommendations would be made public by the middle of last year. It has taken until the end of September 2010 for that to actually happen, ... More >>
Chinese Buy Up Of Dairy Farms
Friday, 26 March 2010, 2:28 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Chief Reporter Chinese Buy Up Of Dairy Farms Get Used To It. This Is What A “Free” Trade Agreement Looks Like More >>
Allowing Shania Twain To Buy High Country Stations
Monday, 22 February 2010, 12:41 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Helen Clark is currently back in the country to bask in the glow of the warm fuzzies. So it’s very timely to look critically at the continued purchase of South Island high country stations by companies linked to Canadian singer, Shania Twain, who was ... More >>
Hillary Clinton Bearing a Poisoned Chalice for NZ
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 3:08 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Hillary Clinton’s visit this weekend will highlight the fact that negotiations will commence in March for the US to join an expanded Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (currently comprising NZ, Chile, Brunei, and Singapore, commonly known ... More >>
IRD Delivers Best Possible Xmas Present
Sunday, 27 December 2009, 10:54 am | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
There really is a Santa Claus. And he has been revealed to be the most unlikely of people, namely the Commissioner of Inland Revenue. Just in time for Christmas IRD has persuaded the Big Four Australian-owned banks – ANZ, ASB, BNZ, and Westpac ... More >>
US/NZ Free Trade Agreement - Learn From Experience
Thursday, 3 December 2009, 3:34 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
New Zealanders who kid themselves that “we” stand to gain from a Free Trade Agreement with the US would be wise to reflect on the rueful words of Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain’s Ambassador to the US in the runup to the US/UK invasion of Iraq. Speaking ... More >>
US Free Trade Agreement A Poisoned Chalice For NZ
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 10:01 am | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The announcement that the US is ready to start negotiations in 2010 to join an expanded Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (currently comprising NZ, Chile, Brunei, and Singapore, commonly known as the P4 Agreement), with 2011 as the target to seal ... More >>
Overseas Investment Office Ignored Cedenco Warning
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 3:29 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
“One of New Zealand's biggest vegetable processors, Cedenco failed under the weight of high debts and problems with its shareholding and "governance", with unspecified problems relating to its ultimate owners in the United States. The US-based Sayler ... More >>
New $477m Threshold Makes Sick Joke of 'Oversight'
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 4:07 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The Government has announced a new Investment Protocol for Australian investors in NZ, under CER. One of the new provisions is a vastly increased threshold of $477m – up from the present $100m. Anything below this sum will not require any kind ... More >>
Robber Banks Make Bank Robbers Look Like Amateurs
Friday, 9 October 2009, 4:10 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Tax Dodgers Make Bank Robbers Look Like Amateurs The Australian-owned banks have been congratulating themselves on what a good recession they’ve been having and how it was all down to their prudence in not getting involved in any exotic financial ... More >>
Aussie Investor Threshold Will Become Benchmark
Monday, 24 August 2009, 11:16 am | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Media coverage of last week’s meeting between John Key and Kevin Rudd focused on defence issues, moves towards liberalised border control procedures, and even which tie the respective PMs would have to wear depending on the outcome of Saturday’s ... More >>
Govt’s Foreign Investment Oversight Policy
Friday, 24 July 2009, 9:34 am | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Bill English has released the first of the recommendations of the review of the Government’s overseas investment regime (any changes to the actual Overseas Investment Act have yet to be announced). Utterly predictably, they focus obsessively on liberalising ... More >>
Spybase Dome To Protect From weather - Yeah, Right
Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 4:46 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
“It (the Waihopai spybase’s new dome, being installed today) is inflated to two PSI (pounds per square inch) above atmospheric pressure and designed to protect the satellite (sic – dish) from the weather not hide the direction that the satellite ... More >>
SFT Bank Rorts May Be Ongoing
Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 3:38 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
In light of IRD’s recent victory over BNZ’s structured financing transactions (described by IRD as a “rort” and by the judge as having “no commercial rationale, logic or purpose”), it is worth investigating whether the Australian-owned banks ... More >>
CCC Quietly Scraps Its Foreign Investment Policy
Friday, 26 June 2009, 4:14 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Not so many years ago, when the Christchurch City Council was justly proud of the title “The People’s Republic of Christchurch” bestowed on it by the Business Round Table, it adopted a number of progressive policies on foreign investment and ... More >>
Spy oversight committee refuses to release details
Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 3:30 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC), which has been campaigning for over 20 years for the closure of the Waihopai spybase, has a keen interest in the alleged ”oversight” of the agency which operates it, namely the NZ Government Communications Security ... More >>
Kiwis Say No To Free Trade Agreement With US
Monday, 25 May 2009, 3:13 pm | Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Thursday’s Budget promises to be a humdinger, maybe in the finest traditions of Ruth Richardson’s infamous “bash the poor” 1991 one. But you can bet that there will be two hoary old myths peddled as a means to get NZ out of our particular corner ... More >>
