16 Jan 2014

The environment would pay for 'free trade'


Do we really want to create an Australia where we have to pay a foreign corporation not to dig up or destroy our coastline or native forests? 

Our laws should protect Australians and the places we love - not the profits of foreign multinationals.

Under the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, Australia could be forced to pay foreign corporations not to dig up or destroy its coastline or native forests, writes Tom Warne-Smith.
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16 January 2014 media release:
Statement on the leak of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Environment Chapter

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