The environment would pay for 'free trade'
"The potential benefits from these clauses to Australians are very
limited. Australian businesses have apparently never used the ISDS
provisions in Australian treaties. The Productivity Commission, in a 2010 report into ISDS clauses,
recommended that our government "avoid the inclusion of investor-state
dispute settlement provisions in [international agreements] that grant
foreign investors in Australia substantive or procedural rights greater
than those enjoyed by Australian investors" - advice that the Abbott
Government appears to be ignoring in the TPP negotiations.
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."
Is this a trick question? Who or what will stop this imbecile government from signing-off on this stuff?
This is precisely the sort of irreparable damage I've been rattling on about since the election.
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