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
AFTINET's Convener, Dr Patricia Ranald, gave evidence to the Senate Committee for Foreign Affairs Defense & Trade on the 6th August 2014 about the dangers of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in trade agreements.
6.30pm, Wednesday, 20th August
A community-run public meeting on the TPP will be held in Brighton, VIC on the 20th of August, in Trade Minister Andrew Robb's electorate.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has called for Australia to reject provisions in the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement that could undermine the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and compromise the ability of governments to improve public health.
The Labor party is hosting a forum in Perth on the 31st of July called ‘Trade – Opening Australia to the World’.
The G20 Trade Ministers met in Sydney this weekend. We teamed up with the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association to perform some street theatre in Circular Quay which sent a strong message for fair trade in deals like the TPP.
21/07/2014
As Canada hosts a round of secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks, Stephen Cornish from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has published an article in the Ottawa Citizen titled 'The TPP could be a blow to public health'.
Dr Patricia Ranald, Convener of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network, (AFTINET) Research Associate at the University of Sydney
As an advocate for fair trade based on human rights, labour rights and environmental sustainability, I read Senator Penny Wong’s policy speech on Australia in the global economy with great interest.
Brunei's recent introduction of a new criminal law regime which includes limb amputations and stoning as punishment has led to calls for trade talks with the dictatorship to be abandoned.
This article in The Economist article shows how stronger patent rights on medicines, like those being proposed in the TPP, delay cheaper generic medicines, resulting in higher prices for consumers.