Moore on China
Mike Moore makes some excellent arguments: There are some who oppose New Zealand’s trade deal with China, and want a boycott of the Olympics. It’s precisely because China depends on the global trading...
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Mike Moore writes in the Herald on the food crisis: What has been the most successful 50 years of alleviating poverty in human history is threatened. What’s happening, what’s new? Nothing is more...
View ArticleMoore on getting dictators to quit
Mike Moore has a column on helping impoverished countries, and how one problem is: Dictators hardly ever quit. They can’t. They may be prosecuted or worse. Those who replace them may take revenge. He...
View ArticleMoore backs Clark for UN post
Mike Moore has said he thinks Helen Clark is the best candidate for the UNDP Administrator job, and has been lobbying on her behalf. He thinks she has a strong chance to win, rating her ahead of the...
View ArticleMike Moore on Progressives
Had to laugh reading a recent Q&A transcript: PAUL: But what is he doing? Is he handing the Progressives to Labour, is that what he’s doing? MIKE: There’s nothing to hand across – except this....
View ArticleMike Moore on globalisation
The Herald reports on Mike Moore’s new book: Mr Moore said more wealth had been created in the past 60 years than in all of history. Hundreds of millions of people had been lifted out of extreme...
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Moore on 2009
Mike Moore writes: The Prime Minister smiles and sails on, changing tack with the wind. He has this non-political image. A sort of James Stewart, Tom Hanks, Henry Fonda, and golly gee, oh shucks...
View ArticleMike Moore appointed NZ Ambassador to US
The Herald reports: Former Labour Prime Minister Mike Moore will be named today as NZ’s next US Ambassador. Moore – who is also a former Director-General of the World Trade Organisation – was nominated...
View ArticleRed Alert on Moore’s appointment
While Phil Goff put out a press release welcoming the appointment, I’ve been waiting for one of the 40 or so Labour MPs who blog at Red Alert, to blog about Moore’s appointment and how pleased they...
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Moore retires
Stuff reports: New Zealand’s ambassador to the United States, Mike Moore, will leave his post next month and return to New Zealand. Moore, a former Prime Minister who went on to be World Trade...
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Labour Leaders on TPP
Every Labour Leader from the 23 years of 1990 to 2013 supports the TPP. Andrew Little is trying to dictate the union position of opposition and may have to sack his own foreign affairs spokesperson...
View ArticleMike Moore on Labour
From Q+A: MIKE Oh, Andrew’s got to stick to his guns. He’s good, and he ought to look at changing the party rules. JESSICA What do you mean by that? MIKE Party leadership should be controlled by the...
View ArticleMoore on Labour
Stuff reports: Former Labour Prime Minister Mike Moore worries about his party. Yes his party still. Oh, there is some bitterness and bad blood for sure, but he’s still a party member and desperately...
View ArticleMore on Mike Moore
Stuff reports: There is a telling line from Mike Moore in the RNZ series The 9th Floor. When talking about getting credit for the transformation of New Zealand during the fourth Labour government, he...
View ArticleMore National leaders than Labour leaders at Moore’s funeral
Newsroom reports: His own Labour tribe, including the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, and cabinet ministers and numerous MPs old and new, was there in force, with both Green Party co-leaders and the...
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