Foreign Ownership


Aotearoa is for sale, and it’s going cheap on the world market, yet the Labour Government wants to make it even easier for foreign investors to buy up even more of our land, buildings and businesses. Meanwhile, company takeovers by trans-national corporations totaling billions of dollars each year far exceed the value of land sales. Most of our economy is now controlled from the boardrooms of London, Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo and New York. We want New Zealand to regain control of our economic destiny. And we want property prices down to realistic levels so that Kiwis can realise their dream of owning their own home or a bach at the beach and young farmers can afford to buy a family farm.

What's New

Mayor wrong on airport’s importance - Greens

Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says she is startled to learn that Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast does not believe the city’s international airport is a strategic asset, and considers that there is little to lose if Wellington City Council sells all of its 34 percent shareholding.

Peters’ privatisation of KiwiBank dangerous

The Green Party is rejecting calls by New Zealand First to privatise KiwiBank.

“Winston Peters seems to have lost his way in the middle of the economic crisis,” Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says.

The Geopolitics of Oil

Cafler Room, Forum North, Rust Ave, Whangarei
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 at 7:30pm
9pm

A public talk by Keith Locke Green MP on the repercussions for New Zealand of the Mid-Eastern oil conflicts.

Grid buyback essential if foreign owners go under

The Green Party is calling on the New Zealand Superannuation Fund to buy back the South Island electricity grid if Wachovia Bank - which effectively owns the grid - collapses as expected.

Pharmac, GE free, ownership at risk in US trade deal

The Green Party is calling on the Government to make a public commitment not to weaken Pharmac and not to weaken laws on genetic engineering or foreign ownership in any trade deal with the United States.