TPP forum [Melb] – 5Feb’14
Intro_TPP forum [Melb] – 5Feb’14
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The Australian Govt is currently negotiating a ‘trade’ deal with 11 other countries called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but this is no ordinary agreement.
The US wants to include a clause where corporations from these countries would be able to sue our government in an overseas tribunal, if our domestic laws or regulations interfere with their expected profits. This tribunal is known as an Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS).
The tobacco company Phillip Morris is currently suing our govt for damages over our plain packaging laws, using an existing agreement with Hong Kong that contains ISDS provisions. Australia has also just signed a deal containing ISDS with South Korea.
If the TPP is signed it would leave our Govt powerless to implement its own laws, if challenged & beaten in an ISDS tribunal. Each challenge could cost us billions. Even contesting decisions would cost taxpayers millions.
Health policy (such as providing generics, the capping of pharmaceutical prices, etc), environmental policy (such as protection from fracking for coal seam gas), workers rights, the ability to prioritize domestic over foreign owned goods & services, an unrestricted internet, robust investigative journalism, and more … would all be under threat.
There’s no sunset clause on this trojan horse deal. Once signed we lose our constitutional sovereignty, permanently, to transnational corporate feudalism
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Intro_TPP forum [Melb] – 18.6mins
1 – Intro_TPP forum [Melb]
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Deb Gleeson – 26.6mins
2 – Deb Gleeson … talking about the TPP in relation to our health systems.
Dr Deborah Gleeson is the convener of the Political Economy of Health Special Interest Group of the Public Health Association of Australia, a spokesperson for PHAA on the TPP, and Lecturer in Public Health at La Trobe University.
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Dr Richard Dennis – 28.2mins
3 – Dr Richard Dennis … speaking about the Australian mining sector and CSG in relation to the TPP.
Executive Director of The Australia Institute
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Dr Angela Daly – 19.6mins
4 – Dr Angela Daly … speaking about the TPP in relation to Copyright & the IP implications.
2013 auDA Australian Internet Ambassador, Electronic Frontiers Australia former board member, United Nations Internet Governance Forum Dynamic Coalition on Freedom of Expression coordinator
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Bob Fels – 17.1mins
5 – Bob Fels … will talk about GMO’s in relation to the TPP.
Bob Phelps is the executive director of Gene Ethics which is a non-profit educational network of citizens and kindred groups. We want the precautionary principle, scientific evidence and the law rigorously applied to all proposed uses of genetic manipulation (GM) technologies and their products.
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Outro_TPP forum [Melb] – 4.3mins
6 – Outro_TPP forum
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