Prime Minister John Key believes we need the Australians to manage our medicines for us and will sign away our ability to make our own decisions on how we look after our health. Why Key believes Australian decision-makers can decide on our behalf is unclear and the benefit to giving away our rights here is murky indeed. The Greens, ever vigilant to this sort of erosion of our ability to remain independent, have strongly criticised Key for this arrangement, announced during his address to the Australian parliament today.
National, under Key, are making agreements like this one willy-nilly, secure in their belief that 'free trade' is the answer to all of our ills and the 'market' will nurture us in a better way than any we might devise for ourselves.
Not a theory that I subscribe to at all.
Today's key announcement seems unhealthy indeed.
Monday, June 20, 2011
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Is this post a leg pull, Robert?
I have just read a the transcript of Keys address as printed in the Herald. (Keeping Stock posted a link to it.)
Where in the address is there reference to passing management of our medicines to the Aussies? This aging farmer cannot find it any where in the transcript.
Sorry. Should have included the link.
http://nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10733397
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1106/S00316/australia-nz-announce-intention-on-anztpa.htm
"Prime Minister John Key announced today the intention of the Australian and New Zealand Governments to proceed with the establishment of the Australia New Zealand Therapeutic Products Agency (ANZTPA).
The new agency will regulate medicines, medical devices and new medical interventions such as cellular therapy.
“Following discussions with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, we have decided officials on both sides of the Tasman will immediately begin work on the implementation of the new agency,” says Mr Key."
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