negotiations Archive

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  MAF warns Government - by Russel Norman

  
  
  
  In the paper this morning I referred to the MAF briefing to the incoming Government released yesterday.The Government’s press release chose to focus on bland reassertion of the fact that agriculture is the back-bone of the economy as if someone had forgotten. Far more topical is the briefing’s sage advice for our climate change negotiators [...] read more
  December 2, 2008 2:22 pm - 23 Comments
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  National rejects expert advice? - by Russel Norman

  
  
  
  Yesterday I was informed that a number of officials have been dumped from the New Zealand Government delegation to the climate change talks in Poznan, Poland [PDF factsheet]. Apparently, a number of senior officials from the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry for the Environment who were all set to attend to advice our Ministers [...] read more
  December 2, 2008 2:16 pm - 40 Comments
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  Tuhoe and Crown talk about te Urewera - by frog

  
  
  
  It’s interesting to hear that Tuhoe are now entering treaty negotiations with the Crown.  This will, I imagine, be a very different set of negotiations to previous large negotiations such as Ngai Tahu and Waikato. Tuhoe’s engagement with the crown is stereotypically characterised as more confrontational than for many other iwi, which will add an [...] read more
  July 31, 2008 4:18 pm - 82 Comments