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AFTINET Bulletin No 122
20 December 2005

• Happy Christmas and New Year
• Disappointing deal in Hong Kong: Report from Jemma Bailey, 19 December
• Sydney Morning Herald Opinion 20/12/05: Quietly trading away our rights

AFTINET Bulletin No 121
5 December 2005

• WTO draft text released for Ministerial Meeting - talks remain in crisis
• Action stations: Write a letter to the editor and bring the negotiations out from behind closed doors!
• Developing countries call to reclaim development in the Doha 'Development' Round
• Doha Round's development impacts - Shrinking gains and real costs
• Chances diminish for solution on TRIPS and Public Health before Hong Kong
• Get informed: New info booklets on the WTO negotiations’
• Get involved: Events in December in the lead-up to the WTO Ministerial (Sydney, Melbourne and Perth)

AFTINET Bulletin No 120
3 November 2005

• AFTINET Annual General Meeting, 5:30pm 16 November 2005
• High Court ruling on copyright may be overturned to comply with USFTA
• Update on GATS benchmarking proposals – the campaign continues
• Civil Society slams WTO’s dodgy drafting process for WTO trade in services text
• US agriculture proposals at WTO keeps unfair system intact
• Report-back from conference: ‘Piecing the Puzzle of the trade and aid jigsaw in the Pacific
• Melbourne Social Forum, 19 – 20 November

AFTINET Bulletin No 119
6 October 2005

• Action: Write a submission on the WTO negotiations by 21 October
• Community and developing countries voice objections to benchmarking proposals in WTO trade in services agreement (GATS)
• Stakes high in WTO dispute over genetically modified crops and food
• Watching brief: Australia signs Trade and Investment Framework with Indonesia
• Sydney event: Public forum on Piecing the Puzzle of the trade and aid jigsaw in the Pacific, Thursday 20 October
• Sydney event: Public forum on Globalisation, Free Trade and Technology, 11 October

AFTINET Bulletin No 118
19 September 2005

• Invitation to join AFTINET discussion e-list
• Parliamentary review of US and Singapore trade agreements gives lie to claims of economic success
• No easy ride in the land of the FTA, The Age
• Update on Senate Inquiry on Australia’s relationship with China
• Civil Society Declaration on the G20 Ministerial Meeting in Pakistan
• Canadian groups launch appeal on the constitutionality of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
• Inquiry on Corporate Accountability
• Conference - Piecing the Puzzle on trade and aid in the Pacific: 20 – 21 October, Sydney

AFTINET Bulletin No 117
16 August 2005

• No agreement at July WTO General Council meeting – an assessment of the current negotiations
• US FTA blamed for move to competitive tendering in community services
• Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) passed in the US … and movement of peoples caught up in the horse-trading
• Pacific Nations Threat, PNG Post Courier
• ‘NAMA Watch’: New website to monitor the WTO’s non-agricultural market access negotiations
• Sydney Social Forum, 27 – 29 August

AFTINET Bulletin No 116
25 July 2005

• EVENT REMINDER: What’s the WTO up to now? An AFTINET public forum in Sydney on 6pm Thursday 28 July
• Report on progress of WTO Mini Ministerial: China meeting may be too little too late
• Government under fire over China FTA, The Age
• Media on access to medicines and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
• Call for submissions on Australia-Japan Free Trade Agreement
• Sydney event: Screening of ‘The Yes Men’, Wednesday 27 July

AFTINET Bulletin No 115
7 July 2005

• What is the WTO up to now? An AFTINET public forum in Sydney on 6pm Thursday 28 July
• AFTINET appears before Senate Inquiry on Australia’s relations with China
• China FTA resolution passed at ALP State Conference
• North and South countries differ on assessment of WTO services talks, and on the need or otherwise for a new negotiating approach
• Preparations for WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong – Details for NGO and media registration
• Reminder: AFTINET has moved to a new office

AFTINET Bulletin No 114
20 June 2005

• AFTINET is moving offices
• Government tables second round offer in GATS negotiations: Campaign victory as water for human use is excluded from offer
• AFTINET press release: Government concedes that water does not belong in trade agreements
• "Stop the GATS power play": GATS statement from civil society
• Event: Make poverty history white wrist band day 1 July

AFTINET Bulletin No 113
12 May 2005

• Calling on the WTO to make the agriculture negotiations more inclusive and transparent
• Media reports: Social impacts of the China Free Trade Agreement
• Environmental laws lined up for removal by new trade talks
• Event: World Debt Day, Monday 16 May 2005

AFTINET Bulletin No 112
21 April 2005

• Report on Global Week of Action for Trade Justice events
• Howard announces China FTA negotiations … and then releases Feasibility Study
• Call for public submissions: China Free Trade Agreement
• Trading on Labour Rights, Aust Financial Review
• WTO appellate body ruling on internet gambling case
• Brasillia Declaration on GATS and the right to education
• Call for public submissions: Australia-United Arab Emirates FTA
• Sydney event: Politics in the Pub discusses the US FTA, 29 April

AFTINET Bulletin No 111
23 March 2005

• AFTINET Avant Card on WTO trade in services and the right to water
• Senate Inquiry on Australia’s relations with China - please make a submission!
• Report of Hong Kong planning meeting for the 2005 WTO Ministerial Meeting and meetings with Hong Kong organisations about the China FTA
• Report on AFTINET lobbying trip to Canberra
• WTO status hurts China’s rural poor: World Bank
• Australia eyes free-trade deal with UAE as ‘launchpad’ for access to Middle East

AFTINET Bulletin No 110
18 February 2005

• Urgent action: Send a message to the Trade Minister about the current GATS negotiations in Geneva
• Senate Inquiry announced into Australia – China relations
• Time to gear up for the generic v brand-name drugs showdown
• Community groups and unions launch legal challenge on NAFTA investment rules
• Event: Fair Wear Fabric of Society Dinner, 31 March.

AFTINET Bulletin No 109
19 January 2005

• AFTINET planning meeting 16 February: all members welcome
• Australia – ASEAN – New Zealand Free Trade Agreement: Call for public submissions
• Monitoring the impacts of the US FTA in 2005
• WTO report criticises increasing trend to bilateral trade relations
• Australia pushes developing countries to make service commitments in WTO trade in services agreement (GATS)
• Community Organising School, 3 – 6 April, Sydney