Pat Ranald’s article on the TPP in The Conversation is a challenge to democracy is part of a critical series over the last week on the TPP
This Crikey editorial reinforces our claims that the TPP undermines the national interest.
The Parliamentary debate on the Korea Australia FTA is now on. Read the speech by ALP MP Melissa Park, one of the authors of the dissenting report which rejected the agreement.
ABC Radio National 40-minute Background Briefing Programme on September 14, 2014 on the TPP and ISDS featured AFTINETand other critics.
AFTINET joined organisations around the world to protest about Canadian-Australian mining company Oceana Gold, suing El Salvador for $301 million (USD).
The Joint Standing Committee on Treaties issued conflicting reports in its review of the Korea Australia Free Trade agreement (KAFTA), which were tabled in Parliament on August 4, 2014.
by Dr Patricia Ranald, Research Associate, University of Sydney and Convenor, Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network
By Jemma Williams
22/08/2014
India has come under heavy criticism recently for blocking the implementation of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement reached at Bali last December.
Proponents celebrated the Bali ‘package’ as a long-awaited achievement by the WTO, which had failed to reach a significant agreement since 1995. However, critics lamented that the Bali deal was skewed in the favour of developed nations above developing nations (read AFTINET’s critique of the Bali package here).
SumOfUs has launched an online petition about the El Salvador vs. Pacific Rim/OceanaGold case, where a gold mining company is suing the country because they were not granted a mining license that would threaten the supply of drinking water.
Show your support for El Salvador by signing the petition
21/08/2014
This week, the Senate Committee Inquiry has been hearing submissions into the bill proposed by Senator Whish-Wilson to ban the right for foreign investors to sue governments (ISDS) from trade agreements.
Tom Faunce was interviewed on Radio National Saturday Extra programme and is very critical of these ISDS provisions.
Listen to the interview on Radio National here.
19/08/2014