Information about TPP

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TPP: Corporate power versus peoples’ rights

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is a free trade agreement  being negotiated between Australia, the US, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Japan and Vietnam. Details of negotiations are secret, but we know from leaked documents and limited public information that this agreement is not mainly about trade in goods. The agenda is being driven by the US on behalf of its global corporations, who want changes to our laws which would suit corporations
but reduce peoples’ rights. Learn more:

[1]Foreign companies could sue our governments! [1]
Special rights for foreign investors to sue governments over health and environment laws

 

Big costs to our health [2]
Higher medicine prices

 

Impacts on workers’ rights and the environment [3]
Race to the bottom on workers’ rights and the environment

Internet Freedom under threat [4]
 

Threats to sustainable, healthy food [5]
 

Australian content in media could be reduced [6]
 

Secrecy [7]
Secret deals are not democratic!

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Auntie, Sister. Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Mother and Wife of German Descent I've lived in Australia since 1959 together with my husband Peter. We have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I started blogging because I wanted to publish some of my childhood memories. I am blogging now also some of my other memories. I like to publish some photos too as well as a little bit of a diary from the present time. Occasionally I publish a story with a bit of fiction in it. Peter, my husband, is publishing some of his stories under berlioz1935.wordpress.com

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    1. Does it not depend now on our politicians how they’re going to vote, for it or against it?

      “Mr Obama is trying to give momentum to a bipartisan deal announced on Thursday for legislation that, if passed, would make it easier for the administration to negotiate trade deals. He’s also seeking to close a deal with 11 other nations on an accord, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that would cover about 40 per cent of global trade.”

      “Supporters of fast track need bipartisanship in both Houses. Republicans control the Senate 54-46, but 60 votes are needed to advance legislation. In the House, a group of Republicans plan to oppose trade authority, so some Democrats are needed to get to a majority.”

      http://www.smh.com.au/world/barack-obama-plays-china-card-in-tpp-sales-pitch-20150418-1mntdv.html

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      1. Kiwis have been kicking up such a major uproar over TPP – which has enjoyed pretty good coverage in the media – that one of our minor parties has introduced a private member’s bill that would make it illegal for New Zealand to sign any treaty with an Investor State Dispute Settlement (ie allowing corporations to sue NZ over loss of profits). Since ISDS is what TPP is all about, the bill would also make it illegal for our prime minister to sign TPP: http://duncancotterill.com/news/bill-drawn-from-members-ballot-seeks-to-stifle-tppa

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