2003 Bulletins Index
AFTINET Bulletin No 78
17 December 2003
- Update on USFTA negotiations and campaign
- Regional AFTINET members hold strong concerns over USFTA
- WTO aims to revive stalled talks next year
- Internet animation on USFTA and cultural protection
- Fair Wear Christmas theatrical action, Sydney 6pm Thursday 18 December
AFTINET Bulletin No 77
4 December 2003
- Senate Inquiry report: fax or email the Minister
- Australia Institute: new report on USFTA and pharmaceuticals
- US Drug Industry Seeks to Sway Prices Overseas
- US and Australian organisations criticise USFTA
AFTINET Bulletin No 76
28 November 2003
- Successful launch of organisational endorsements of AFTINET statement of concerns about USFTA
- Senate Inquiry report released
- ALP statement about culture and the USFTA
- Reports of FTAA meeting in Miami
- AFTINET AGM and new working group
- Call for Sydney volunteers for Active Sydney Fair, evening of 8 December
AFTINET Bulletin No 75
12 November 2003
- USFTA campaign accelerates in the media
- EU shifts stance on deadlocked WTO trade talks
AFTINET Bulletin No 74
31 October 2003
- Free trade clause would be a dangerous weakening of the law
- Letter to Trade Minister from environmental organisations regarding USFTA
- Environmental study predicts link between USFTA and greater water use
- US Free Trade Agreement Teach In: Sydney 5 November
AFTINET Bulletin No 73
24 October 2003
- Support from US to leave drugs out of US Free Trade talks
- Australia Thai Free Trade Agreement
- British Cancun Report calls for WTO rethink
- EU/developing countries Joint Parliamentary Assembly Opposes Liberalisation of Water
AFTINET Bulletin No 72
16 October 2003
- Not too late to send in signed endorsements on USFTA!
- Don’t be BUSHWACKED. Protest against the USFTA at Sydney anti George Bush rally 19 October
- Canberra USFTA rally 27 October, 12.30pm. Come if you can!
- WA events 16 to 24 October
- Free Fair Wear Training, Sydney, 5 November
AFTINET Bulletin No 71
8 October 2003
- Sydney Cancun report back seminar
- W(h)ither the WTO after Cancun?
- Trade Officials Poll Reveals Little Hope For Quick Progress in Doha Round Talks
- Members of Parliament Hail Kenyan Trade Minister for Leading WTO Walkout
AFTINET Bulletin No 70
25 September 2003
- New USFTA sign-on statement: please endorse as soon as possible
- Rally against the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement: 27 October Canberra
- Whither the WTO after Cancun? Sydney seminar, 14 October
- Canberra hearing: Senate GATS / USFTA inquiry, 2 October
- The Meaning of Cancun
- ‘Free to be Australian’ Public Meeting: Sydney, 6 October
AFTINET Bulletin No 69
17 September 2003
- Whither the WTO after Cancun? Sydney WTO report back, 14 October
- Canberra USFTA rally, 27 October
- Failed Cancun talks throw up new trade power
AFTINET Bulletin No 68
15 September 2003
- Media release: WTO failure is a win
- Collapse of WTO talks
AFTINET Bulletin No 67
12 September 2003
- Agriculture now centre stage at Cancun
- South Korean NGO leader in WTO suicide protest
- Globalisation Roundtable, Perth 20 September
AFTINET Bulletin No 66
10 September 2003
- Joint Australian and US Unions’ Statement on the Aust-US Free Trade Agreement
- USFTA Local Government Resolution: take it to your council
- Write to the ALP about its USFTA policy
- Health Care At Risk: Seminar Sydney 20 September
- ABC in Crisis Public Forum: Sydney 28 September
AFTINET Bulletin No 65
2 September 2003
- Events for the WTO Ministerial Meeting, September 10-14
- Websites for the WTO Ministerial Meeting
- Democracy and Developing Countries in the cold at WTO Ministerial Meeting
- Flawed WTO drugs deal will do little to secure future access to medicines in developing countries (30 August 2003)
- GATS call to Cancun: essential services like water out of the WTO: sign by Sept 4th
AFTINET Bulletin No 64
15 August 2003
- New AFTINET leaflet about PBS
- Write to Mark Vaile about the PBS
- US wants reform of ‘unfair’ PBS
- US trade deal may triple drug cost
AFTINET Bulletin No 63
31 July 2003
- Draft AFTINET submission to DFAT on WTO negotiations: comments by August 11
- Draft Cancun Ministerial text released: NGOs critical
- Sydney: volunteers needed for AFTINET mailout Wednesday 6 August
- Reminder: AFTINET training Sydney 27 August
- New book on the politics of the WTO
AFTINET Bulletin No 62
24 July 2003
- Senate Committee hearings and successful rally Sydney 23 July
- New AFTINET training Sydney, 27 August
- Visit your local member about the USFTA! Project underway
- Free trade deal is bad medicine
- US trade deal may end in court
- Trade deal's protected areas
AFTINET Bulletin No 61
17 July 2003
- Reminder: AFTINET Lunchtime Rally Sydney 23 July on USFTA and GATS
- Reminder: Submissions to DFAT on WTO negotiations due 15 August
- Visit your local member about the USFTA Campaign about to begin
- ALP and Democrat dissent on Singapore Australia Free Trade Agreement
- Keep investment pacts off Cancun's agenda
- USFTA event Perth 26 July
AFTINET Bulletin No 60
1 July 2003
- Rally 1 pm, 23 July in Sydney to support Senate Hearing on GATS and USFTA
- DFAT’s USFTA statements: focus on abolition is misleading
AFTINET Bulletin No 59
11 June 2003
- Zoellick Says FTA Candidates Must Support U.S. Foreign Policy
- USTR Agenda Spread Over Multiple Fronts
- MEAA launches new campaign on USFTA / US Words No Comfort For Aussie Film and Television Industry
- Reminder: GATS and USFTA training: Sydney, 1 July
- George Monbiot speaks in Sydney
AFTINET Bulletin No 58
20 May 2003
- Successful launch of new AFTINET leaflet ‘Trading Australia Away?’ - Order your copies now!
- Resumed US trade negotiations a threat to prescription medicine costs - Shadow Trade Minister’s statement
- US to confront EU on genetically modified foods
- 'I was wrong about free trade’ - Former British trade and industry secretary
- Sydney USFTA symbolic rally – Friday 30 May, at 131 Macquarie St
- Working bee - Wednesday 28 May
AFTINET Bulletin No 57
7 May 2003
- AFTINET USFTA publication launch: 20 May at Parliament House, Sydney
- Business Roundtable Readies P.R. Campaign To Back Global Trade Talks
- New Oxfam report calls proposed WTO agreement on investment "a disaster for development"
- African countries don’t want to start negotiating new issues in WTO
- Political Economy Conference – University of Sydney, 9 May 2003
- Workshop on the world water crisis and Australia’s water – Sydney, 31 May 2003
AFTINET Bulletin No 55
18 March 2003
- US Free Trade Agreement leaflet and letter this week and Senate Submissions
- Social policy fears over trade deal
- Successful GATS Day of Action
- AFTINET meetings with DFAT
- New Report Shows Negative Impacts, Threats Of Water Privatisation
- WTO fears Bush go-it-alone role
AFTINET Bulletin No 54
5 March 2003
- GATS Action 11 March: 12.00 at Sydney Water Offices
- Vaile announces objectives for USFTA
- Community Forum on GATS and USFTA: Sunday 16 March
- Cancellation of meeting on the impact of GATS and USFTA on media and broadcasting, 30 March
- Reminder about Senate inquiry submission date: 21 March
AFTINET Bulletin No 53
13 February 2003
- Louise Southalan starts work and drafts GATS submission circulated to members
- GATS campaigners score victory on EU health, education and broadcasting, but condemn EU on postal, environmental and other services
- US Government stalls on access to medicines for developing countries
- US Service Industry demands in the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement
AFTINET Bulletin No 52
16 January 2003
- AFTINET submission on Australia-US Free Trade Agreement
- DFAT GATS Discussion Paper: Comments by 24 February 2003
- Senate GATS and FTA Inquiry submissions due 21 March 2003
AFTINET Bulletin No 51
8 January 2003
- Churches launch global campaign on trade and human rights
- US bilateral FTA talks with Central America start in January
- US-Australia Free Trade Agreement due to get underway in first half of 2003
- Reminder about submissions to DFAT by 15 January 2003