It’s been kept pretty hush-hush but it looks like the New Zealand Government wants to sign us up to the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement in the next couple of days. The views of an overwhelming majority of New Zealanders are being completely ignored. If you want to put your hand up and say, “Walk away from the TPPA!”, here’s your opportunity.
If you would like to become a signatory to the open letter below, please add your name in the comments, or print the file, sign it and send it to:
Rt Hon John Key
Prime Minister
Freepost
Parliament Buildings
Wellington
An open letter to the Government from nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants
September 2015
Tēnā koe Prime Minister
We are disturbed to read reports that you intend to seek a hasty conclusion to negotiations on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement.
“It’s the best we could do” is not a good enough reason to sign a bad deal.
As health professionals we believe the best we can do to ensure our communities stay healthy is to ask you to reject the deal, and walk away.
Access to the best medicines at the earliest opportunity and at an affordable price is vitally important.
Signing New Zealand up to a deal that puts our health, our sovereignty, and our quality of life at risk is foolhardy.
It is not too late to walk away from Trans Pacific Partnership talks. Please do the right thing for New Zealand.
Nāku iti noa, nā
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation
and the undersigned
NZNO's Blog 
September 23, 2015 at 2:39 pm
Please add me
September 23, 2015 at 2:41 pm
Please add my name
September 23, 2015 at 2:47 pm
Please add me
September 23, 2015 at 2:51 pm
Erin Foster
September 23, 2015 at 2:55 pm
Please listen to the people and don’t sign the TPPA #TPPAwalkaway
September 23, 2015 at 2:58 pm
Please add my name please walk away from this Mr Key, forget your a businessman and do whats best for the vast majority of the people of this awesome country you have the privalage to govern
September 23, 2015 at 2:59 pm
Raewyn Hughes
September 23, 2015 at 3:05 pm
DON’T SIGN THE TPPA WALK AWAY PRIME MINISTER KEY LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE
September 23, 2015 at 3:05 pm
Walk away from TPPA. We the people of New Zealand say NO.
September 23, 2015 at 3:06 pm
Please add me
September 23, 2015 at 3:06 pm
Please add my name to this letter, do not sign the TPPA.
September 23, 2015 at 3:08 pm
Please add my name
September 23, 2015 at 3:08 pm
Add me, too. Walk away from throwing away our national sovereignty
September 23, 2015 at 3:10 pm
Walk away from this Mr Key, listen to the people.
September 23, 2015 at 3:16 pm
Please add my name
September 23, 2015 at 3:17 pm
There’s too much at stake John and nothing to gain – walk away today!
September 23, 2015 at 3:17 pm
Please just walk away.
September 23, 2015 at 3:19 pm
Please Add my Name. NO TO TTPA
September 23, 2015 at 3:19 pm
Please walk away!
September 23, 2015 at 3:29 pm
Please add my name to this letter, do not sign the TPPA
Bethney Rowland
September 23, 2015 at 3:32 pm
Please ad my signature to this letter to John Key
September 23, 2015 at 3:32 pm
Walk away John Keys
September 23, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Please add me
September 23, 2015 at 3:42 pm
Peggy Fittes. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
September 23, 2015 at 3:42 pm
It is not in the best interest of NZ to sign this trade agreement. Please walk away.
September 23, 2015 at 3:46 pm
Please listen to the people you are responsible to as part of a democracy. Do not sign unless the majority of NZers agree.
September 23, 2015 at 3:48 pm
Please add my name
September 23, 2015 at 3:52 pm
This agreement is against any principals of fair play. WE can stand up for all smaller nations and our rights to self determination and to make laws that reflect our principals and values!!!
September 23, 2015 at 3:55 pm
Its a simple, No TPPA. Listen to NZ Mr Key!
September 23, 2015 at 4:07 pm
Add me too, no way, no TPPA
September 23, 2015 at 4:09 pm
add me
September 23, 2015 at 4:15 pm
Please add my name.
September 23, 2015 at 4:16 pm
Yep add me! No to TPPA
September 23, 2015 at 4:16 pm
Add me….
September 23, 2015 at 4:22 pm
No way TPPA
Pls add me
September 23, 2015 at 4:28 pm
Please add my name let’s do our best to rid ourselves of this heinous act!
September 23, 2015 at 4:30 pm
John Key NEVER listens to the people of NZ unless it suits him to do so. But even so, I’m adding my name to this list. Come on, John – MAN UP, LISTEN UP and STAND UP on behalf the people who gave you the power to do it in the first place. NO WAY to TPPA.
September 23, 2015 at 4:40 pm
No way walk away I say to the TPPA.
September 23, 2015 at 4:46 pm
There is no shame in changing your mind Prime Minister and saying NO to TPPA! Listen to the people’s voice.
September 23, 2015 at 4:50 pm
This Treaty does hurts mort people than it will help. Do not commit us to this!
September 23, 2015 at 5:07 pm
I would like to be added please. Thanks for organising this 🙂
September 23, 2015 at 5:07 pm
Deborah Kean
Although I am not in the NZNO, I’d like to add my support to this letter)
September 23, 2015 at 5:09 pm
Happy to add your name, Deborah
September 23, 2015 at 5:09 pm
No document has been shrouded in more secrecy than this one. WHY.
What little we DO know proves to be of no benefit and of great harm to the legal fabric of our nation.
This is not what this nation wants.
Stop. Walk away.
September 23, 2015 at 5:10 pm
Dear John Its time to walk away from the TPPA. Do what is right for New Zealand and stop thinking about yourself for once.
September 23, 2015 at 5:16 pm
Please add my name and support to this letter. I have marched and contributed to campaigns but sadly John cares nothing for our concerns. He’s just the US corporations lackey.
September 23, 2015 at 5:19 pm
It would be nice to see that our Prime Minister can ‘grow a pair’ and abandon an obvious poor deal for New Zealand. Particularly when the future health of New Zealand citizens and voters is at stake.
September 23, 2015 at 5:29 pm
I have also marched and signed protests to the TPPA a. Listen to the New Zealand people
September 23, 2015 at 5:30 pm
Should say against the TPPA. Just for clarification purposes.
September 23, 2015 at 5:37 pm
Please add me, say no and walk away. Maria Hart
September 23, 2015 at 5:39 pm
From what little I have been able to find out about the TPPA. There appears to be little to gain and a GREAT DEAL to LOOSE . If this agreement is so good for our country, why are the negotiations and details so secret . Please walk away.
September 23, 2015 at 5:44 pm
Please don’t sign off on TPPA. Listen to New Zealand. If this goes ahead I believe that a vote of no confidence should be called for. I for one have no confidence in a Government that does not listen to the people it is elected to represent.