Scoop | 2 Nov 2015 Protection of NZ’s GE-Free Environment Requires Containment of GE Vaccine Experiment Trials of a new GE vaccine must be fully contained. The experiments must not be used as an excuse to weaken regulation of GE or to push through environmental release of other GMOs in New Zealand. The Environmental Protection…
RNZ | 2 Nov 2015 Kim Doctom’s reference to himself as “evil” was an intentional mistranslation by US prosecutors and the case against him is rotten, says the internet mogul’s lawyer. Kim Dotcom arrives at court for the start of his extradition hearing in Auckland on 21 September. Photo: RNZ/Kim Baker Wilson Mr Dotcom and…
Palestine Chronicle | November 02, 2015 The reprehensible draft ‘resolution’ circulated by New Zealand (NZ), the present chair of the UN Security Council, is so blatantly biased against the Palestinian people that it proffers, in this instance, the correct diplomatic protocol to mind it’s own business….. particularly as NZ is an on-the-record, apologist and morally…
NZ Herald | 2 Nov 2015 Retrenchment will cost 29 Auckland jobs as bank joins Goldman Sachs in servicing clients from Australia. Deutsche Bank’s Frankfurt headquarters. The global banking giant is shedding 35,000 staff and will shut its NZ operation. Photo / AP Moves by global financial players to close New Zealand-based operations are disappointing…
NZ Herald | 28 Oct 2015 Ruling that hacked files used for book are property means charges possible Dirty Politics author Nicky Hager may face criminal charges over accepting the hacked material used to write the bombshell book, according to documents obtained by the Herald. Police will not say whether the investigative journalist is again…
RNZ | 23 Oct 2015 Opponents of genetic engineering research say official documents on government transgenic cow experiments reveal a disturbing story of illness, death and deformity. GE Free New Zealand has released a report covering 15 years of AgResearch trials using 60 cows bred to express certain transgenic proteins, including a human protein, in…
RNZ | 30 Sept 2015 The Crown has been unable to produce the original notices asking for Kim Dotcom and his co-accused to be extradited to the United States. The hearing to decide whether Mr Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato should be sent to the US to face copyright and…
NationalBusinessReview | 28 Sept 2015 Ministers can’t make blanket refusals to release documents under the Official Information Act without reviewing them first or by arguing the only information that could be made public would be “anodyne,” the High Court at Wellington has been told. Several organisations concerned at the secrecy surrounding negotiation of the Trans Pacific…
Stuff | 11 Sept 2015 An increasingly slick anti-fluoridation lobby is causing concern for some Hutt Valley District Health Board members. A paper presented to the board’s last meeting addressed an email from Fluoride Free New Zealand which included claims that fluoridation permanently damaged the teeth of “tens of thousands of Kiwis”. The paper said…
Scoop | 25 Aug 2015 Late addition of national security provisions concerns Law Society The New Zealand Law Society has expressed its significant concerns at the last-minute addition to the Health and Safety Reform Bill of provisions for a closed material procedure for court proceedings where national security is involved. The Law Society has written…