ISDS Case Map
Australia
Commission casts doubt on copyright and investor state dispute settlement clauses in trade and assistance review
Public debate over how best to manage the interests of foreign investors and host states has resurfaced in Australia.
Australian governments of late seem only to listen to the din of money as though that equates with national interest.
Defending Pacific ways of life: A Peoples Social Impact Assessment of PACER-Plus, was commissioned by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) to provide Pacific governments, negotiators, parliamentarians, civil society actors, customary landowners and the private sector with an alternative assessment to the impacts that PACER-Plus will have on the region.
A new report says Pacific Island countries should walk away from the proposed PACER Plus free trade agreement, suggesting it puts Australia and New Zealand's interests ahead of the Pacific.
Pacific island governments should retain their legal right to regulate to protect their national development interests, which include the ownership and control of land, natural resources and environment, as well as the social and economic rights of their people ahead of the empty development promises from Australia and New Zealand and walk away from the regional trade talks known as PACER-Plus, a new report released today recommends.
Provision allows firms to sue in international tribunal if laws introduced or changed that hurt their interests.
ALP says it will try to change three major agreements that allow corporations to sue if they think a government has damaged their interests
The Electrical Trades Union has lashed the Federal Government following revelations that seven Chinese workers were exploited and paid a fraction of their legal entitlements.
Talks on an India-Australia free trade agreement are in an advanced stage, but Australia is currently unable to commit on a timeline for its finalisation owing to the forthcoming federal elections
