14 March 2016
Voters in the US are beginning to understand that recent so-called “free" trade deals like the TPP are increasingly written for the interests of large global corporations - at the expense of ordinary working people.
14 March 2016
New Australian Trade Minister Steven Ciobo has told The Australian that he wants Parliament to vote on the TPP’s implementing legislation before the next election is held.
12 March 2016
Consumer advocacy group Choice has launched a new campaign to 'get rid of the devil in the detail' of the TPP.
Chief executive Alan Kirkland told Fairfax Media that the TPP opens the Australian government to being sued by foreign companies for changes to food labelling and product safety laws.
9 March 2016
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the US elections you have probably heard that all the leading candidates are opposed to the TPP (albeit for very different reasons).
So what does it mean for the agreement if the main US presidential candidates don’t support it?
Let’s take a look at a couple of scenarios.
3 March 2016
Economics Editor for The Age Peter Martin has questioned whether Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull - or anyone else for that matter - would mind if the TPP "fell over".
He argues that economic modelling finds the benefits of the deal for Australia to be "almost non existent," criticises DFAT's National Interest Analysis for "merely summarising" the deal, and accuses leaders of "willful blindness."
26 February 2016
This week the World Trade Organisation put a road block in the way of India’s efforts to invest in renewable energy while creating jobs for its people.
According to Grist, the WTO dispute panel ruled that aspects of India’s National Solar Mission - which require a proportion of the solar cells to be manufactured in India - were “inconsistent” with international trade norms and therefore prohibited.
26 February 2016
The CEO of Disney has boasted of influencing the intellectual property chapter of the TPP in a letter to his employees.
26 February 2016
When then Trade Minister Andrew Robb signed off the TPP he promised the Australian people it would not result in longer monopolies or extra costs for life-saving biologic medicines.
But this week Mr Robb told US pharmaceutical companies a different story.
22 February 2016
The Australian Government continues to rule out commissioning an independent study of the TPP's benefits and costs to Australia, despite calls from community groups representing millions of Australians.
At public hearings in Canberra this week, DFAT officials defended their decision.
Here's a quote from the Fairfax Media article reporting on the hearings:
16 February 2016
The Saturday Paper has published an excellent article critical of the TPP called Trans-Pacific Partnership to stall climate change action.
Written by law journalist Richard Ackland, it's well worth a read.