2011 Media Releases

TPPA

• "Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Don't Trade Away Health" - Community Education Leaflet by AFTINET, September 2011
• "Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement: Workers' Right, not Corporate Rights" - Community Education Leaflet by AFTINET, 2nd June 2011
• Media Release: UNITED STATES UNDERMINES ACCESS TO MEDICINES IN AUSTRALIA & PACIFIC, joint media release from AFTINET and Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA), 25th October 2011
• Briefing Paper - Summary Update for MPs and others - paper presented to MP's during AFTINET lobby trip, September 2011
• Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS): the threat to health, environment and other social regulation - Paper presented at the Stakeholders Forum, eighth round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, prepared by Pat Ranald, 10th September, 2011
• "Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement proposals increase corporate rights, reduce access to affordable medicines, say public health and fair trade groups" - Joint media release by AFTINET and PHAA, 1st September 2011
• "Dangers for Access to Medicines in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Intellectual Property Proposal and Australian Law" - by Public Citizen, 29th August 2011
• "The experience of the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement: lessons forthe Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations" - paper presented at the Stakeholders Forum, seventh round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, prepared by Pat Ranald, 19th June 2011
• Open Letter ‘Release The TPPA Text’ - by AFTINET, 2011
• "End secrecy in US Trans-Pacific trade negotiations say unions and community groups" - by AFTINET, 14th February 2011
• "International Civil Society Demands End To Secrecy In TPPA Talks" - by AFTINET, 16th February 2011 
• International Health Group letter calling for Medicines Safe Guards in the TPPA - 15th February 2011
• Mock Text Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement On Financial Services, Investment & Capital Movements - by Jane Kelsey, 2011
• The TPPA, Financial Instability & Governments’ Regulatory Space - by Jane Kelsey and Sanya Reid Smith, 2011
• "Critical Paper Links TPPA to Financial Instability, Challenges Negotiators to Release Draft Text for Further Analysis" - by Jane Kelsey, 15th February 2011
• "Some impacts of a TPPA investment chapter" - by Harvey Purse and Sanya Reid Smith, 2011
• "Critique of likely TPPA investment chapter challenges limits on regulatory sovereignty" - by AFTINET, 15th February 2011
• Copy of Chile Release the Text Letter. (Note: Spanish) - 14th February 2011
• Copy of Malaysia Release the Text Letter - 13th February 2011
• Copy of New Zealand Release the Text Letter - 10th February 2011
• Copy of United States Release the Text Letter - 14th February 2011
• Joint Union call for new approach to Investment Chapter in TPPA - 4th February 2011
• Leading Economist Letter calling for Capital Controls - 31st January 2011
• "Leaked Trans-Pacific FTA Texts Reveal U.S. Undermining Access to Medicine" - by Citizens Trade Campaign, 22nd October 2011

PACER

•  "Will Australia and New Zealand really allow sovereignty to Pacific Countries on Trade Decisions" - by AFTINET and AID/WATCH, 13th September 2011
• "NGOs call on Australia to Respect Island Country Sovereignty – Australia Risks its Reputation in the Pacific" - by AFTINET and PANG, 2nd September 2011
• Greens slam Australia's handling of Pacific Chief Trade Advisor office - Transcript of ABC Radio interview of Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, 30th August 2011
• Aust rejects Greens' claims on Pacific trade funding - Transcript of ABC Radio interview of Australia's Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs Richard Marles, 31st August 2011
• Pac Trade Advisor says funding offer challenges Pacific sovereignty - Transcript of ABC Radio interview of Chief Trade Advisor to the Forum Island Countries Chris Noonan, 1st September 2011
• No strings to independent Pacific trade advice: Australian NGOs - by AFTINET and AID/WATCH, 20th May 2011
• Australia must support independence of Pacific Trade Advisor - by AFTINET, 24th March 2011 

India-Australia FTA

•  AFTINET Submission to DFAT on the proposed agreement, July 2011