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 5:46 pm
Please add my name in support of this letter .
September 23, 2015 at 5:47 pm
Please add my name
September 23, 2015 at 5:47 pm
Make a stand and walk away!
September 23, 2015 at 5:51 pm
Hi Robyn, what’s your last name, for the letter please
September 23, 2015 at 5:51 pm
Please add my ame
September 23, 2015 at 6:01 pm
Please add my name to the list of the undersigned. Rowena Kerr. Registered Nurse.
September 23, 2015 at 6:06 pm
This is an agreement which will not benefit Nz, particularly those who live in poverty. You will also lose the support of the middle classes, in fact you already seem to have.
September 23, 2015 at 6:17 pm
Christine McCartney, Please add my name to this open letter.
September 23, 2015 at 6:19 pm
Please do not sign this agreement!
September 23, 2015 at 6:20 pm
Diana Bidwell, please add my name to the signatories.
It may turn out to be a good idea, but I’m not ok with it being signed without consultation with the populace.
September 23, 2015 at 6:25 pm
We need to ensure New Zealanders always have access to cheap drugs, lives depend on it. Walk away from the TPPA.
September 23, 2015 at 6:26 pm
Add my name please. This deal should not be signed.
September 23, 2015 at 6:28 pm
The financial uncertainties are too great for our health system to carry. Please do not sign. Sarah Derrett DipCpN, PhD
September 23, 2015 at 6:28 pm
If any doubt at all, then don’t sign. Early indications are this is not good for NZ and it’s people
September 23, 2015 at 6:32 pm
Don’t do it!
September 23, 2015 at 6:35 pm
Please make it known that I totally disagree with New Zealand being a signatory to the TPPA. I plead with the government to reconsider and take note of the massive public outcry against such an agreement.
September 23, 2015 at 6:37 pm
Please do not sign the TPPA. PHARMAC has to remain as the gatekeeper of medicines in NZ to get the best possible care whilst keeping an eye on value for money. If the medicine patents are extended then we will end up paying more for medicines and the result will be a reduction of the more expensive treatments.
September 23, 2015 at 6:40 pm
please add my name – Maureen Sudlow
September 23, 2015 at 6:49 pm
As a voter and a taxpayer, a University graduate who is well read on many diverse topics including economics, history and social policy I can assure you Mr Key that I am capable of a reasonable level of understanding regarding this so call trade deal the TPPA. I demand that you listen to the will of the people on this and walk away from the TPPA, leave it unsigned. Find some other way of fostering trade (which I am happy to support) rather than pandering to big business lobby groups.
yours most sincerely
Jacqueline Bennetts RN
September 23, 2015 at 6:49 pm
Please add my name- Rachel Bell
September 23, 2015 at 6:52 pm
Please add my name
September 23, 2015 at 6:57 pm
Waiting for this prime minister to learn to consult first and decide later. Too much at risk for an uncertain return that is likely to serve only a small part of the population.
September 23, 2015 at 6:59 pm
please add my name – Joseph Samuels
September 23, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Walk away. We do NOT want this. We do NOT need the TPPA.
September 23, 2015 at 7:03 pm
please add my name
September 23, 2015 at 7:08 pm
Hi, please add the names Charleen Thorner and Michael Wolfe to the letter.
September 23, 2015 at 7:08 pm
Please sign my name!
September 23, 2015 at 7:10 pm
The will of the people must be listened to by this Government. I implore them to do so. It is not to late to pass on the reluctance of a large proportion of our people to the people signing this deal. Pull back before its to late.
September 23, 2015 at 7:10 pm
Please add my name: Kelsey Trask
September 23, 2015 at 7:16 pm
Don’t sign please!
September 23, 2015 at 7:18 pm
Please put my name on the letter
September 23, 2015 at 7:20 pm
Please add my name to this letter
September 23, 2015 at 7:27 pm
Please add my name, Katherine Esme Watts, Registered Nurse
September 23, 2015 at 7:30 pm
I find it hard to afford our medications now it will be even worse if this gos ahead
September 23, 2015 at 7:34 pm
TPPA……..Walk away!
September 23, 2015 at 7:37 pm
The TPPA is a deal that will erode NZ’s sovereignty on many fronts. It is unacceptable that, as a government that is meant to protect its people and way of life, you are quietly planning to allow this to happen despite many New Zealanders expressing very real and serious concerns at the impact it will have on all facets of New Zealand society and way of life.
September 23, 2015 at 7:39 pm
Add my name
September 23, 2015 at 7:42 pm
Please add my name to the open letter. Spray & Walk away, Mr Key
September 23, 2015 at 7:56 pm
Please add my name, Jacqui Miller, to the open letter. Another hush hush deal this government is trying to sneak through.
September 23, 2015 at 7:57 pm
Please add my name
September 23, 2015 at 8:05 pm
Please add me to ur list say no to tppa hard enough to get people to go to the drs now due to cost
September 23, 2015 at 8:05 pm
Please add my husban’s name too. Takeshi Nagahama.
September 23, 2015 at 8:09 pm
Please add NY name to the letter, thanks. #TPPANOWAY
September 23, 2015 at 8:09 pm
NZ does not want any part of this agreement, walk away from the TPPA
September 23, 2015 at 8:14 pm
Please give my name as I’m against the signing!
September 23, 2015 at 8:22 pm
Please add my name to the list
September 23, 2015 at 8:23 pm
Please add my name: Lisa Wall – Child and Maternal Health Social Worker
September 23, 2015 at 8:30 pm
We do not need tge TPPA. Please reject the deal and walk away.
September 23, 2015 at 8:35 pm
Please add me to the letter
September 23, 2015 at 8:39 pm
Monique Waldron, please sign me!!
September 23, 2015 at 8:40 pm
Penny Rabone does not want TPPA
September 23, 2015 at 8:41 pm
Lesley Foord