jackovesk
15th February 2011, 07:31
Australian PM Julia Gillard (Fabian Society) & New Zealand PM John Key (Foreign Exchange Committee of the New York Federal Reserve Bank from 1999 to 2001!) at work pushing the NWO Agenda!
AUSTRALIA and New Zealand are looking at expanding trade liberalisation even further - cutting regulations and working with other Asia-Pacific nations - by the end of this year.
Julia Gillard told a New Zealand business lunch in Auckland today that Australia and New Zealand would be building on the new investment levels to be finally signed off tomorrow to expand free trade with the United States, Chile, Singapore and Malaysia by November's APEC meeting.
The Prime Minister said the economic relationship across the Tasman was the closest we had and must be made even closer so that travel and business can be as “seamless as possible”.
Ms Gillard said we “can achieve more together than we can alone, a strong New Zealand is good for Australia and a strong Australia is good for New Zealand”.
The Prime Minister said free trade helped both countries and they needed to work towards greater growth of Asia-Pacific free trade by the APEC meeting.
Tomorrow Ms Gillard and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key sign an agreement which lifts the threshold for mutual New Zealand and Australian investment without reference to the Foreign Investment Review Board.
Opposition MPs in New Zealand fear the investment deal hands Australia too much influence in their country.
The deal allows Australian investors to invest up to $363 million in New Zealand without facing screening. Kiwis will be able to invest about $760 million in Australia.
http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2011/02/15/1226006/446306-gillard-greeting.jpg
New Zealand's opposition Labour Party leader Phil Goff has greeted the arrangement with caution, warning that Australia is already heavily invested in their country.
“Their investment capability means that they can buy up assets here very readily, and there's no New Zealander who is not aware that the Australian banks take $NZ2.5 billion a year in dividends out of this country,” Mr Goff told Radio New Zealand.
New Zealand's Green Party has also expressed concern about trans-Tasman deals, with co-leader Russel Norman - ironically an Australian - warning New Zealand's interests need to be protected. “If it involves giving away some of our sovereignty and ability to set some fundamental rules for markets then we'd have concerns about that,” Dr Norman said.
Mr Key, however, said the concerns were not warranted as the arrangement was designed simply to bring the two countries closer together.
“Just because there's an investment threshold doesn't mean an investment would be turned down,” he reporters in Wellington. “It just simply speeds up the process and gives more surety to investors that they can proceed.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs/getting-even-closer-to-new-zealand/story-fn59nm2j-1226006292326
PS - I don't know about the Kiwi's but this deal STINKS to Hi-Heaven! Both Countries have been Shafted Yet again by the Globalists! They eventually want to hand our respective Country's Sovereignty over to the UN and the World Bank through the 'Asia Pacific Union'!
AUSTRALIA and New Zealand are looking at expanding trade liberalisation even further - cutting regulations and working with other Asia-Pacific nations - by the end of this year.
Julia Gillard told a New Zealand business lunch in Auckland today that Australia and New Zealand would be building on the new investment levels to be finally signed off tomorrow to expand free trade with the United States, Chile, Singapore and Malaysia by November's APEC meeting.
The Prime Minister said the economic relationship across the Tasman was the closest we had and must be made even closer so that travel and business can be as “seamless as possible”.
Ms Gillard said we “can achieve more together than we can alone, a strong New Zealand is good for Australia and a strong Australia is good for New Zealand”.
The Prime Minister said free trade helped both countries and they needed to work towards greater growth of Asia-Pacific free trade by the APEC meeting.
Tomorrow Ms Gillard and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key sign an agreement which lifts the threshold for mutual New Zealand and Australian investment without reference to the Foreign Investment Review Board.
Opposition MPs in New Zealand fear the investment deal hands Australia too much influence in their country.
The deal allows Australian investors to invest up to $363 million in New Zealand without facing screening. Kiwis will be able to invest about $760 million in Australia.
http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2011/02/15/1226006/446306-gillard-greeting.jpg
New Zealand's opposition Labour Party leader Phil Goff has greeted the arrangement with caution, warning that Australia is already heavily invested in their country.
“Their investment capability means that they can buy up assets here very readily, and there's no New Zealander who is not aware that the Australian banks take $NZ2.5 billion a year in dividends out of this country,” Mr Goff told Radio New Zealand.
New Zealand's Green Party has also expressed concern about trans-Tasman deals, with co-leader Russel Norman - ironically an Australian - warning New Zealand's interests need to be protected. “If it involves giving away some of our sovereignty and ability to set some fundamental rules for markets then we'd have concerns about that,” Dr Norman said.
Mr Key, however, said the concerns were not warranted as the arrangement was designed simply to bring the two countries closer together.
“Just because there's an investment threshold doesn't mean an investment would be turned down,” he reporters in Wellington. “It just simply speeds up the process and gives more surety to investors that they can proceed.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs/getting-even-closer-to-new-zealand/story-fn59nm2j-1226006292326
PS - I don't know about the Kiwi's but this deal STINKS to Hi-Heaven! Both Countries have been Shafted Yet again by the Globalists! They eventually want to hand our respective Country's Sovereignty over to the UN and the World Bank through the 'Asia Pacific Union'!