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FTA Critic Told To "Get A Visa" To Go To Australia
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 4:13 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
On Sunday evening (14 November), Professor Jane Kelsey was detained at immigration at Sydney airport for about an hour at the beginning of a tour to launch a new book on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. She was informed by a senior immigration ... More >>
Not the time to be signing away NZ’s sovereignty
Thursday, 2 April 2009, 11:43 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
At a time when New Zealand needs the flexibility to respond to pressing domestic economic priorities, and with fresh questions being raised in Australia about the value of their free trade agreements, now was not the time to be signing away New ... More >>
Jane Kelsey - Critical Overview Of APEC’s Agenda
Thursday, 6 September 2007, 7:41 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Professor Jane Kelsey: It is difficult for APEC veterans to take the whole circus very seriously. It has always been a poor relation (in liberalization terms) to the regional initiatives in Europe and North America that its instigators (led by Australia) ... More >>
Kelsey: Time To Rethink Failed World Trade Agenda
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 3:32 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
The collapse of the Doha round negotiations at the World Trade Organisation is cause for celebration by poor people and powerless governments around the world. More >>
Speech at Te Tii Marae, Waitangi
Friday, 10 February 2006, 11:20 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
My name is Jane Kelsey. I first came to Waitangi in February 1980 in the days when so-called ‘young Maori radicals’ at Waitangi and elsewhere, were joined by small groups of Pakeha activists. I haven’t felt so drawn to Waitangi for the last 10 years. ... More >>
WTO: Who Is Responsible For The Violence?
Sunday, 18 December 2005, 11:12 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
The parallel worlds of protesters who say the WTO is destroying the lives of people in North and South, and of trade ministers who desperately seek a cosmetic deal that can keep the WTO alive, finally met last night when a mass mobilization forced the ... More >>
Jane Kelsey WTO: Democracy a la WTO
Sunday, 18 December 2005, 4:03 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Frustrations continue to mount among many delegations in Hong Kong that the ‘facilitators’ appointed to oversee the major areas of negotiation (agriculture, non-agriculture market access, services and rules, and development) are simply ignoring their views ... More >>
WTO: Services Standoff Heightens Risk of Collapse
Saturday, 17 December 2005, 1:07 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Outrage has reached new heights over the abuses of power and process that surround talks on trade in services at the 6th WTO ministerial meeting in Hong Kong. More >>
WTO: Declaration of Solidarity Lays Down Gauntlet
Saturday, 17 December 2005, 1:03 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
In an unprecedented show of solidarity among poorer countries of the world, Ministers from every group of governments from the global South (the ‘developing’ and ‘least developed’ countries) have united to present a coherent and coordinated face to the ... More >>
Jane Kelsey WTO: Standoff on Services
Friday, 16 December 2005, 3:46 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Negotiations on the WTO’s agreement on ‘trade in services’ (the GATS) have taken a controversial turn at the 6th ministerial conference in Hong Kong. In the giant chess game of the Doha round, services have tended to have a low profile. Now it ... More >>
Jane Kelsey WTO: Development Deceits
Friday, 16 December 2005, 3:36 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
See also: BULLETIN #1 - Creating a Climate of Fear in HK BULLETIN #2 - The Antidote to Fear-Mongering BULLETIN #3 - Opening skirmishes More >>
Jane Kelsey WTO: Opening skirmishes
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 12:05 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
The opening day of ‘MC6’ (the sixth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation) followed a now-standard format: mass protests on the outside, disruption of the opening ceremony by non-government organizations accredited to attend the fringes of the ... More >>
Jane Kelsey WTO: The Antidote to Fear-Mongering
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 12:20 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
The battle for the hearts and minds of Hong Kong took a turn yesterday when the first mass mobilization against the WTO was a colourful, festive and totally peaceful affair. Local media reports expressed surprise; yet their stories were still refracted against ... More >>
Jane Kelsey WTO: Creating a Climate of Fear in HK
Sunday, 11 December 2005, 11:07 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
In four days time, trade ministers from 149 WTO member countries, plus observers from those in the process of accession, will convene in Hong Kong for the 6th ministerial conference of the WTO to discuss the crippled Doha round of trade negotiations. More >>
Updates On Developments In The Pacific
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 9:10 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Dr Jane Kelsey, Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa (ARENA/NZ), to the International Coordinating Network WTO Preparatory Meeting, Hong Kong, February 2005 More >>
Kelsey Attacks NZ's Role In Pacific WTO Accessions
Monday, 31 May 2004, 4:26 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Speaking at a World Trade Organisation symposium in Geneva on Thursday 27th May, Professor Jane Kelsey from Auckland University and ARENA (Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa) condemned the torturous process of accession as ‘one of the ... More >>
Jim Sutton Invited To Read Pacific Trade Report
Monday, 5 April 2004, 2:53 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Trade Minister Jim Sutton should have read the report that criticizes the Australian and New Zealand governments for bullying the Pacific Islands into the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) before he launched into an intemperate attack ... More >>
Professor Jane Kelsey: Big Brothers Behaving Badly
Monday, 5 April 2004, 10:52 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Big Brothers Behaving Badly The Implications for the Pacific Islands of the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) Professor Jane Kelsey Commissioned by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) More >>
Dunne Retracts Allegations About Kelsey In Cancun
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 7:16 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
At approximately 4.15 this afternoon Hon Peter Dunne made the following retraction as a personal statement in the House: More >>
Kelsey Challenges Clark To Debate The WTO
Tuesday, 23 September 2003, 8:12 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
“If the Prime Minister is so concerned about the meltdown of the World Trade Organisation, she should demand some decent advice about what really happened at Cancun. Then I challenge her to a public debate on the issues”, said Professor Jane Kelsey. More >>
