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Assets selloff to cost $120m
The Government expects to pay contractors about $120 million to help sell its controversial asset sales plan message.... 
What National doesn't want to hear about asset sales
Not holding hearings on asset sales in the run up to the budget is a deliberate tactic by National to save itself from embarrassment, Labour’s finance spokesperson David Parker says....
Share loyalty scheme won't work - critics
Opposition parties say a loyalty scheme for shares in state-owned assets being considered by the Government is an admission it is concerned they will end up in foreign hands....
Hundreds march on asset sales in Invercargill
About 400 people marched through Invercargill on Saturday to protest the Government's proposal to sell shares of state-owned assets....
Little campaigns for national ballot
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 10:44 AM, Saturday 12 May, 2012
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National's sale of assets legislation does not protect shares from ending up in overseas hands, nor does it limit the sell-off to 49 per cent, Labour MP Andrew Little says....
Signing up to prevent asset sales
Gathering 10,000 signatures in support of keeping New Zealand's assets is a challenge Te Atatu MP Phil Twyford believes he can take on....
Kiwis urged to sign keep assets campaign
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 10:54 AM, Thursday 10 May, 2012
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Labour Leader David Shearer is calling on New Zealanders to express their opposition to National's plan to sell our assets by signing the petition to force a citizens initiated referendum on the issue....
Waitangi Tribunal to challenge asset sales
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 10:51 AM, Thursday 10 May, 2012
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The Government faces yet another spanner in the works over its planned asset sales; the Waitangi Tribunal will hold an urgent hearing over a Maori claim to ownership of water....
Asset sales protests spark unlikely partnership
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 10:48 AM, Thursday 10 May, 2012
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An unlikely partnership has formed to fight the Government's partial asset sales, with Grey Power and the New Zealand University Students Association launching a petition aimed at getting a referendum on the issue....
Zombie protest suggests asset sales dead wrong
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 10:40 AM, Thursday 10 May, 2012
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Protesters dressed as zombies targeted the New Zealand Stock Exchange yesterday afternoon....
Campaign to force asset sale referendum begins
Labour leader David Shearer braved a chilly Wellington morning to collect signatures at the railway station, kicking off a nationwide drive to force a citizens-initiated referendum against the Government's partial asset sales programme....
Iwi threatens lawsuit to halt power-asset sales
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 10:34 AM, Thursday 10 May, 2012
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Central North Island iwi Ngati Tuwharetoa is threatening legal action to halt the partial sale of Mighty River Power and Genesis Energy unless it is given a share of the private sector profits to be generated from the use of its land....
Question Time: Hon Clayton Cosgrove to the Minister for SOEs
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 11:18 AM, Wednesday 09 May, 2012
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Hon Clayton Cosgrove to the Minister for State Owned Enterprises: Does he stand by the Prime Minister’s statement regarding asset sales that “We are not going to do anything tricky there”?...
New figures 'show asset sales don't add up'
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 10:36 AM, Wednesday 09 May, 2012
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New figures, which show that New Zealand has lost $21 billion in dividends since the sales of BNZ, Telecom, and Contact, prove that asset sales are a folly that we don't need to repeat, Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman said today....
Asset sales opposed at South Island hearing
Opposition to the Government's proposed partial sale of state-owned assets was unanimous at the only select committee hearing to be held in the South Island....
Asset sales 'like a farmer eating his last chicken'
Selling off New Zealand's state owned assets is like a farmer eating his last chicken, MPs were told today...
Asset sales protesters rally at MP's office
A hikoi protesting against the partial sale of state-owned assets has demonstrated outside the Wellington office of Ohariu MP Peter Dunne....
Asset sale hikoi marches on Parliament
Protesters have chanted "we've got the power" as a crowd of 5000 demonstrate against asset sales at Parliament....
Aotearoa Is Not For Sale - Wellington Demonstration
The Wellington leg of the Aotearoa is Not For Sale hikoi....
Will Dunne heed his own poll on asset sales?
United Future are polling the public about their support for partial privatisation....
Cameron critical of efforts to sell asset sale benefits
A key player in the lead-up to the Government's decision to float stakes in State enterprises says the attempts to sell that to the public have been a disaster....
Thousands join Queen Street hikoi
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 09:31 AM, Sunday 29 April, 2012
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About 8000 people marched on central Auckland on Saturday afternoon as opposition grows to the Government's mooted asset sales....
Hundreds protest asset sales in Nelson
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 09:27 AM, Sunday 29 April, 2012
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Around 500 people marched through Nelson today and delivered an emphatic message to the Government - don't go ahead with asset sales....
Resounding opposition to asset sales at select committee
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 10:20 AM, Friday 27 April, 2012
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A bill paving the way to partially sell the country's state-owned energy companies met with resounding opposition at a select committee hearing in Auckland today....
Asset sales are not what they said they'd be
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 02:01 PM, Thursday 26 April, 2012
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The way our public power companies are being privatised is nothing like the promise the National Government put to the electorate, Labour Leader David Shearer said today....
Confidence and supply deal questioned
Doubt is being cast on the integrity of United Future's confidence and supply deal with the Government....
Asset sales will hit power bills - Grey Power
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 01:13 PM, Tuesday 24 April, 2012
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Residential consumers with state-owned power companies face on average a $265 a year increase in their electricity bills if the Government continues with its plans to partially sell them, Grey Power has told Parliament....
Locals denied opportunity to have say on asset sales
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 12:59 PM, Tuesday 24 April, 2012
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Public hearings on the Government’s asset sales legislation in Dunedin have been postponed, muting the voices of local submitters, says Dunedin North MP David Clark....
Asset sales hearings 'a farce' - Mallard
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 11:54 AM, Tuesday 24 April, 2012
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Parliamentary hearings into legislation paving the way for the Government's partial privatisation plan for state owned power companies have been described as a sham....
Loop holes in the asset sale plan?
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 09:53 AM, Tuesday 24 April, 2012
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National's asset sales programme is rolling ahead but Labour says there are some loopholes in the plans that could mean the Government loses its majority ownership. David Cunliffe talks to Breakfast....
Anti-asset sale hikoi aims to create change
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 09:47 AM, Tuesday 24 April, 2012
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Organisers of an eleven day hikoi from Cape Reinga to Wellington are hopeful it can change the Government's partial asset sale plan....
Aotearoa is Not For Sale hikoi begins today
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 09:34 AM, Tuesday 24 April, 2012
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A two-week long hikoi protesting against asset sales, privatisation, overseas land sales and the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will begin today in Cape Reinga....
Why Greenpeace is adding its voice to asset sales march
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 09:57 AM, Monday 16 April, 2012
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Why Greenpeace is adding its voice to the 'Aotearoa is Not for Sale' march. Keeping our assets is key to embracing a clean energy future....
Hundreds beg committee to stop sale of state assets
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 08:53 AM, Monday 16 April, 2012
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Hundreds of New Zealanders have written to a parliamentary select committee begging for a halt to the sale of state owned assets....
Loophole allows sale of over 49pc
A loophole in the law covering partially privatised state assets will allow much more than 49 per cent of the value of the companies to be privatised, providing the extra shares do not carry voting rights....
Ombudsman warns on power selldown
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 11:29 AM, Wednesday 11 April, 2012
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The Government's plan to block public scrutiny of partially privatised power companies is unjustified on commercial grounds and will see a valuable part of the democratic process lost, Chief Ombudsman Beverley Wakem has warned....
Treasury hui notes: English flags more asset sales
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 11:42 AM, Tuesday 10 April, 2012
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The sale of shares in state-owned electricity generator and retailer MightyRiver Power is likely to attract more buyers than available stock when it's floated later this year, and the government is eyeing up two more sales next year, according to Finance...
Asset sales scheme guarantees moans - Editorial
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales Power Companies
Created: 11:50 AM, Wednesday 04 April, 2012
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Anyone repelled by the idea of commercialising state assets, let alone selling them off, need look no further than the electricity industry to find broken promises and tougher conditions for consumers....
Then and now: Key on all sorts
Author: Not Yours To Sell
Category: Asset Sales
Created: 01:56 PM, Wednesday 14 March, 2012
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John Key has built his political career on telling people what they want to hear. Eventually that strategy always catches up with people, and it’s catching up with Key big-time....