March 23, 2015: Professor Sharon Beder writes in the Sydney Morning Herald that the sale of NSW poles and wires to foreign owners would enable them to use ISDS in trade agreements like the China FTA or the TPP to sue the government for damages in an international tribunal if it introduced regulation which "harmed" their investment.
On Sunday March 22 at Sydney Town Hall, thousands marched to protest about unfair government policies and to stand up for policies for human rights and the environment. We were there to raise our voices against the TPP.
See the NSW Nurses and Midwives' 3-minute video of the Sydney March 13 TPP street theatre and rally and hear a former trade negotiator predict on ABC Radio National that TPP proposals will lead to massive health costs
ABC TV 7.30 Report on TPP March 17, 2015 begins at 21.14 minutes.
In a critical report on the TPP, the Australian Medical Association slams stronger monopolies on medicines and foreign investor rights to sue governments (ISDS), and demands release of the text. Other critical media articles below.
See the great images from our successful rally and street theatre outside the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade in Sydney on March 13, 2015.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Trade Minister Robb has attacked US Senator Elizabeth Warren for her criticism of TPP secrecy and the investor-state dispute clauses which would enable foreign corporations to sue governments over domestic laws.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman writing in the New York Times gives the thumbs down to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and wonders why the Obama administration is supporting it.
March 10, 2015: The secrecy surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership has community groups and businesses concerned says Peter Martin writing in The Melbourne Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Canberra Times and SBS found business and community groups want to see the text before it is signed
Thousands have marched in more than 20 towns and cities around New Zealand to protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). See video here