As someone who’s been warning for a while about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP – see my previous posts on the issue here and here), I’m pleased to see a large activist group like GetUp! come out against it.
Category: Trade
Feb 02 2014
Great Barren Reef: the cost of coal exports
- By James Wight in Climate, Climate Politics, Energy, News, Politics, Trade
On Friday the Abbott government approved the dumping of three million cubic metres of dredged seabed in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. That’s enough waste to fill 150,000 dump trucks. This outrage is occurring because of a planned coal export boom. Environment Minister Greg Hunt quietly approved the dredging in December while you were …
Jan 09 2014
The Xmas attack on the climate
- By James Wight in Climate, Climate Politics, Deregulation, Energy, News, Politics, Renewable Energy Target, Trade
“Happy is the country which is more interested in sport than in politics.” – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott You might think the big news story of the Xmas break was that Australia won the Ashes. But in the same month you were relaxing and watching the cricket, the new Liberal/National Government quietly continued attacking …
Oct 31 2013
Continuing trade talks secrecy threatens sovereignty
- By James Wight in Climate, Climate Politics, Deregulation, News, Politics, Trade
In what is ironically Global Transparency Week, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has uninvited a journalist from a briefing on the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations. The agreement is expected to be signed before the end of the year and could mean a radical transfer of power from governments to …
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