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Wednesday, 29 June 2016
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Assertiveness
Being assertive means being positive and confident. You are aware that you are a worthy person with your own special gifts. You think for yourself and express your own ideas. You know what you stand for and what you won’t stand for. You expect respect.
Caring
Caring is giving love and attention to people and things that matter to you. When you care about people, you help them. You do a careful job, giving your very best effort. You treat people and things gently and respectfully. Caring makes the world a safer place.
Cleanliness
Cleanliness means washing often, keeping your body clean, and wearing clean clothes. It is putting into your body and your mind only the things that keep you healthy. It is staying free from harmful drugs. It is cleaning up mistakes and making a fresh start.
Commitment
Commitment is caring deeply about something or someone. It is deciding carefully what you want to do, then giving it 100%, holding nothing back. You give your all to a friendship, a task, or something you believe in. You finish what you start. You keep your promises.
Compassion
Compassion is understanding and caring when someone is hurt or troubled, even if you don’t know them. It is wanting to help, even if all you can do is listen and say kind words. You forgive mistakes. You are a friend when someone needs a friend.
Confidence
Confidence is having faith in someone. Self-confidence is trusting that you have what it takes to handle whatever happens. You feel sure of yourself and enjoy trying new things, without letting doubts or fears hold you back. When you have confidence in others, you rely on them.
Consideration
Consideration is being thoughtful of other people and their feelings. You consider how your actions affect them. You pay careful attention to what others like and don’t like, and do things that give them happiness.
Cooperation
Cooperation is working together and sharing the load. When we cooperate, we join with others to do things that cannot be done alone. We are willing to follow the rules which keep everyone safe and happy. Together we can accomplish great things.
Courage
Courage is bravery in the face of fear. You do the right thing even when it is hard or scary. When you are courageous, you don’t give up. You try new things. You admit mistakes. Courage is the strength in your heart.
Courtesy
Courtesy is being polite and having good manners. When you speak and act courteously, you give others a feeling of being valued and respected. Greet people pleasantly. Bring courtesy home. Your family needs it most of all. Courtesy helps life to go smoothly.
Creativity
Creativity is the power of imagination. It is discovering your own special talents. Dare to see things in new ways and find different ways to solve problems. With your creativity, you can bring something new into the world.
Detachment
Detachment is experiencing your feelings without allowing your feelings to control you. Instead of just reacting, with detachment you are free to choose how you will act. You use thinking and feeling together, so you can make smart choices.
Determination
You focus your energy and efforts on a task and stick with it until it is finished. Determination is using your will power to do something when it isn't easy. You are determined to meet your goals even when it is hard or you are being tested. With determination we make our dreams come true.
Diligence
Diligence is working hard and doing your absolute best. You take special care by doing things step by step. Diligence helps you to get things done with excellence and enthusiasm. Diligence leads to success.
Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is being cheerful, happy, and full of spirit. It is doing something wholeheartedly and eagerly. When you are enthusiastic, you have a positive attitude. Enthusiasm is being inspired.
Excellence
Excellence is doing your best, giving careful attention to every task and every relationship. Excellence is effort guided by a noble purpose. It is a desire for perfection. The perfection of a seed comes in the fruit. When you practice excellence, you bring your gifts to fruition. Excellence is the key to success.
Flexibility
Flexibility is being open to change. You consider others’ ideas and feelings and don’t insist on your own way. Flexibility gives you creative new ways to get things done. You get rid of bad habits and learn new ones. Flexibility helps you to keep changing for the better.
Forgiveness
Being forgiving is giving someone another chance after they have done something wrong. Everyone makes mistakes. Instead of revenge, make amends. Forgive yourself too. Instead of feeling hopeless after a mistake, decide to act differently, and have faith that you can change.
Friendliness
Friendliness is being a friend, through good times and bad. You take an interest in other people and make them feel welcome. You share your belongings, your time and yourself. Friendliness is the best cure for loneliness.
Generosity
Generosity is giving and sharing. You share freely, not with the idea of receiving something in return. You find ways to give others happiness, and give just for the joy of giving. Generosity is one of the best ways to show love and friendship.
Gentleness
Gentleness is moving wisely, touching softly, holding carefully, speaking quietly and thinking kindly. When you feel mad or hurt, use your self-control. Instead of harming someone, talk things out peacefully. You are making the world a safer, gentler place.
Helpfulness
Helpfulness is being of service to others, doing thoughtful things that make a difference in their lives. Offer your help without waiting to be asked. Ask for help when you need it. When we help each other, we get more done. We make our lives easier.
Honesty
Honesty is being truthful and sincere. It is important because it builds trust. When people are honest, they can be relied on not to lie, cheat or steal. Being honest means that you accept yourself as you are. When you are open and trustworthy, others can believe in you.
Honor
Honor is living by the virtues, showing great respect for yourself, other people, and the rules you live by. When you are honorable, you keep your word. You do the right thing regardless of what others are doing. Honor is a path of integrity.
Humility
Being humble is considering others as important as yourself. You are thoughtful of their needs and willing to be of service. You don’t expect others or yourself to be perfect. You learn from your mistakes. When you do great things, humility reminds you to be thankful instead of boastful.
Idealism
When you have ideals, you really care about what is right and meaningful in life. You follow your beliefs. You don’t just accept things the way they are. You make a difference. Idealists dare to have big dreams and then act as if they are possible.
Integrity
Integrity is living by your highest values. It is being honest and sincere. Integrity helps you to listen to your conscience, to do the right thing, and to tell the truth. You act with integrity when your words and actions match. Integrity gives you self-respect and a peaceful heart.
Joyfulness
Joyfulness is an inner sense of peace and happiness. You appreciate the gifts each day brings. Without joyfulness, when the fun stops, our happiness stops. Joy can carry us through the hard times even when we are feeling very sad. Joy gives us wings.
Justice
Practicing justice is being fair. It is solving problems so everyone wins. You don’t prejudge. You see people as individuals. You don’t accept it when someone acts like a bully, cheats or lies. Being a champion for justice takes courage. Sometimes when you stand for justice, you stand alone.
Kindness
Kindness is showing you care, doing some good to make life better for others. Be thoughtful about people’s needs. Show love and compassion to someone who is sad or needs your help. When you are tempted to be cruel, to criticize or tease, decide to be kind instead.
Love
Love is a special feeling that fills your heart. You show love in a smile, a kind word, a thoughtful act or a hug. Love is treating people and things with care and kindness because they mean so much to you. Love is contagious. It keeps spreading.
Loyalty
Loyalty is staying true to someone. It is standing up for something you believe in without wavering. It is being faithful to your family, country, school, friends or ideals, when the going gets tough as well as when things are good. With loyalty, you build relationships that last forever.
Moderation
Moderation is creating a healthy balance in your life between work and play, rest and exercise. You don’t overdo or get swept away by the things you like. You use your self-discipline to take charge of your life and your time.
Modesty
Modesty is having self-respect. When you value yourself with quiet pride, you accept praise with humility and gratitude. Modesty is being comfortable with yourself and setting healthy boundaries about your body and your privacy.
Orderliness
Orderliness is being neat and living with a sense of harmony. You are organized, and you know where things are when you need them. Solve problems step by step instead of going in circles. Order around you creates order inside you. It gives you peace of mind.
Patience
Patience is quiet hope and trust that things will turn out right. You wait without complaining. You are tolerant and accepting of difficulties and mistakes. You picture the end in the beginning and persevere to meet your goals. Patience is a commitment to the future.
Peacefulness
Peacefulness is being calm inside. Take time for daily reflection and gratitude. Solve conflicts so everyone wins. Be a peacemaker. Peace is giving up the love of power for the power of love. Peace in the world begins with peace in your heart.
Perseverance
Perseverance is being steadfast and persistent. You commit to your goals and overcome obstacles, no matter how long it takes. When you persevere, you don't give up...you keep going. Like a strong ship in a storm, you don't become battered or blown off course. You just ride the waves.
Purposefulness
Being purposeful is having a clear focus. Begin with a vision for what you want to accomplish, and concentrate on your goals. Do one thing at a time, without scattering your energies. Some people let things happen. When you are purposeful, you make things happen.
Reliability
Reliability means that others can depend on you. You keep your commitments and give your best to every job. You are responsible. You don’t forget, and you don’t need to be reminded. Other people can relax knowing things are in your reliable hands.
Respect
We show respect by speaking and acting with courtesy. We treat others with dignity and honor the rules of our family, school and nation. Respect yourself, and others will respect you.
Responsibility
Being responsible means others can trust you to do things with excellence. You accept accountability for your actions. When you make a mistake, you offer amends instead of excuses. Responsibility is the ability to respond ably and to make smart choices.
Self-discipline
Self-discipline means self-control. It is doing what you really want to do, rather than being tossed around by your feelings like a leaf in the wind. You act instead of react. You get things done in an orderly and efficient way. With self-discipline, you take charge of yourself.
Service
Service is giving to others, making a difference in their lives. You consider their needs as important as your own. Be helpful without waiting to be asked. Do every job with excellence. When you act with a spirit of service, you can change the world.
Tact
Tact is telling the truth kindly, considerate of how your words affect others’ feelings. Think before you speak, knowing what is better left unsaid. When you are tactful, others find it easier to hear what you have to say. Tact builds bridges.
Thankfulness
Thankfulness is being grateful for what we have. It is an attitude of gratitude for learning, loving and being. Appreciate the little things that happen around you and within you every day. Think positively. Thankfulness brings contentment.
Tolerance
Being tolerant is accepting differences. You don’t expect others to think, look, speak or act just like you. You are free of prejudice, knowing that all people have feelings, needs, hopes and dreams. Tolerance is also accepting things you wish were different with patience and flexibility.
Trust
Trust is having faith in someone or something. It is a positive attitude about life. You are confident that the right thing will happen without trying to control it or make it happen. Even when difficult things happen, trust helps us to find the gift or lesson in it.
Trustworthiness
Trustworthiness is being worthy of trust. People can count on you to do your best, to keep your word and to follow through on your commitments. You do what you say you will do. Trustworthiness is a key to success in anything you do.
Truthfulness
Truthfulness is being honest in your words and actions. You don’t tell lies even to defend yourself. Don’t listen to gossip or prejudice. See the truth for yourself. Don’t try to be more than you are to impress others. Be yourself, your true self.
Understanding
Understanding is using your mind to think clearly, paying careful attention to see the meaning of things. An understanding mind gives you insights and wonderful ideas. An understanding heart gives you empathy and compassion for others. Understanding is the power to think and learn and also to care.
Unity
Unity helps us work and live together peacefully. We feel connected with each other and all living things. We value the specialness of each person as a gift, not as a reason to fight or be scared. With unity we accomplish more together than any of one of us could alone.
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
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Monday, 27 June 2016
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Saturday, 25 June 2016
UK to leave the EU
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
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Tuesday, 21 June 2016
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Thursday, 16 June 2016
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Part One: General Policy Statement
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Amendment Bill (the Bill) is an omnibus Bill introduced in accordance with Standing Order 263(a). The amendments deal with an interrelated topic that can be regarded as implementing a single broad policy.
The Bill amends New Zealand law as part of the implementation of the free trade agreement named the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement between New Zealand, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Viet Nam, signed at Auckland on 4 February 2016 (the Agreement).
Most of the obligations in the Agreement would be met by New Zealand’s existing domestic legal and policy regime. However, a number of legislative and regulatory amendments would be required to align New Zealand’s domestic law with certain obligations in the Agreement, and thereby enable New Zealand to ratify the Agreement. The Bill introduces amendments to the following enactments:
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the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997, so as to extend current data protection from 5 to 10 years for data provided in support of an application for marketing approval for a new agricultural chemical product, as required by the intellectual property chapter of the Agreement;
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the Copyright Act 1994, so as to extend the copyright term from life plus 50 to life plus 70 years, to provide a new regime for protection of technological protection measures, to provide new rights for performers, to provide additional protection for rights management information, to extend the border protection measures to allow the New Zealand Customs Service to detain exports of suspected pirated copyright works where a notice has been accepted from rights holders and to give ex officio powers to Customs officers to temporarily detain suspected pirated copyright works without a notice from rights holders, and to extend the protection of encrypted programme-carrying satellite and cable signals, as required by the intellectual property chapter of the Agreement;
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the Customs and Excise Act 1996, so as to allow the New Zealand Customs Service to issue advance rulings on the valuation of imports to TPP importers, exporters, or producers, as required by the customs administration and trade facilitation chapter of the Agreement;
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the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act 2001 (including Schedules 5A and 5B), so as to implement an export licence allocation system for the country specific quota access received for dairy products in the Agreement for the United States market;
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the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, so as to provide a 60-day comment period on proposed technical regulations that will need to
be notified to the World Trade Organization, as required by the technical barriers to trade chapter of the Agreement;
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the Legislation Act 2012, so as to ensure that New Zealand can promptly publish on a single Internet site all central Government subordinate instruments, together with an explanation of their purpose and rationale, to the extent required by the transparency and anti-corruption chapter of the Agreement;
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the Overseas Investment Act 2005, so as to provide a power to make regulations to implement higher investment screening thresholds for overseas investments in significant business assets in order to comply with New Zealand’s obligations under the investment chapter of the Agreement and other related existing international trade agreements (being the Most- Favoured-Nation obligations in New Zealand’s existing trade agreements with China, Chinese Taipei, Korea, and Hong Kong, and the CER Investment Protocol with Australia). Under TPP and existing most-favoured- nation (MFN) obligations the screening threshold for certain non- government investors will increase from $100 million to $200 million. The threshold for Australia is currently $498 million for non-government investors and $104 million for government investors (indexed for inflation), which will remain unchanged;
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the Patents Act 2013, so as to provide for the requirement to provide a 12- month grace period for patent applications and to allow for the granting of patent term extensions to compensate a patent holder if there are unreasonable delays in the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand granting the patent, or an unreasonable curtailment of the patent term as a result of Medsafe’s marketing approval process for pharmaceutical products, as required by the intellectual property chapter of the Agreement;
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the Tariff Act 1988, so as to enable regulations to be made which apply the preferential tariff rates agreed under the Agreement, to provide for the transitional safeguard mechanism required under the trade remedies chapter of the Agreement, and to provide for the emergency action (safeguards) mechanism and associated procedures required under the textiles and apparel chapter of the Agreement;
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the Trade Marks Act 2002, so as to provide authority to courts to award additional damages for trade mark infringement, to extend the border protection measures to allow the New Zealand Customs Service to detain exports of suspected trade mark infringing goods where a notice has been accepted from rights holders and to give ex officio powers to Customs officers to temporarily detain suspected trade mark infringing goods without a notice from rights holders, and to require the courts in trade mark infringement cases to order the destruction of counterfeit goods except in exceptional cases, as required by the intellectual property chapter of the Agreement;
the Wine Regulations 2006, so as to introduce a standard that restricts the export of grape wine labelled as “ice wine” which is not made from grapes frozen on the vine as required by the wine and distilled spirits annex of the technical barriers to trade chapter of the Agreement.
A copy of the Agreement can be found at https://www.tpp.mfat.govt.nz/text
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
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The government has introduced legislation into Parliament on the TPPA. Submissions are open and due by 22 July 2016 http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/sc/make-submission/51SCFDT_SCF_00DBHOH_BILL68998_1/trans-pacific-partnership-agreement-amendment-bill.
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Amendment Bill
Public submissions are now being invited on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Amendment Bill.
The closing date for submissions is Friday, 22 July 2016
This bill is an omnibus bill that amends New Zealand law as part of the implementation of the free trade agreement named the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. A number of legislative and regulatory amendments would be required to align New Zealand’s domestic law with certain obligations in the Agreement to enable New Zealand to ratify it.
Submissions should cover the purpose and specific provisions of the bill.
The legislative amendments introduced by the bill would not come into effect until the Agreement came into force for New Zealand.
The committee noted that consistent with Standing Orders the committee has until 12 November 2016 to hear evidence, consider the bill and report the bill to the House.
The bill is available online from the `Related links´ panel.
What do you need to know?
- Submissions are publicly released and published to the Parliament website. Only your name or organisation's name is required on a submission. Please keep your contact details separate, as if they are included on the submission they will become publicly available when the submission is released.
- If you wish to include information of a private or personal nature in your submission you should discuss this with the clerk of the committee before submitting.
- If you wish to speak to your submission, please state this clearly.
Further guidance on making a submission can be found from the Making a Submission to a Parliamentary Select Committee link in the `Related documents´ panel.
If you have any questions about your submission or the submission process please contact the Committee Secretariat through the contact details provided on this page.
http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/legislation/bills/00DBHOH_BILL68998_1/trans-pacific-partnership-agreement-amendment-bill
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Amendment Bill
This bill is an omnibus bill that amends New Zealand law as part of the implementation of the free trade agreement named the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.Member in charge: | Hon Todd McClay |
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Type of bill: | Government |
Parliament: | 51 |
Bill no: | 133-1 |
Introduction: | 9/5/16 |
First reading: | 12/5/16 |
Referred to: | Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee |
Submissions due: | 22/7/16 |
Report due: | 12/11/16 |