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AFTINET Bulletin No
133
December 2006
- AGM report – Social Justice Award for AFTINET
- WTO - Doha do or die?
- APEC coming to town
- G20 and APEC held in November
- The ever expanding FTA agenda
- FTA update
- China FTA negotiations
- USFTA devils emerge
- Blood products - review released, and
ignored
- Senate passes copyright law
- International Trade Union to work on
globalisation
AFTINET Bulletin No
132
1 November 2006
- AFTINET moving and welcome new campaigner
Michelle Freeman
- Rann fired up about free trade with China
- China Drafts Law to Empower Unions and End
Labor Abuse
- Government rejects criticism of PBS medicine
prices
- WTO Decision on US complaint against
regulation of GE food
AFTINET Bulletin No
131
28 September 2006
- G20 and Cairns Group meetings fail to revive WTO
negotiations
- AFTINET and Trade Ministry on the AUSFTA in the Australian
Financial Review
- Vaile to step down as Trade Minister
- Tonga defers WTO membership
- Japan next on Australia’s free trade agenda?
- STAND UP against global poverty on October 16, Sydney,
Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin
AFTINET Bulletin No
130
13 September 2006
- China trade negotiations make little progress
- AFTINET call for end to China FTA talks published in
Australian Financial Review
- Labor urges caution on China FTA, AAP
- Textile, car plans ‘not negotiable’ in China FTA, The
Age
- US turns tough on trade after WTO collapse, Wall Street
Journal
- Civil society calls for a new approach to world trade
- Successful trade justice dinner, farewell to Jemma Bailey
and AFTINET job vacancy
AFTINET Bulletin No
129
25 July 2006
- WTO talks collapse: AFTINET media release
- Book soon! AFTINET fundraising dinner on Wednesday 16 August
- Teach-in on APEC and G20: Saturday 12 August
- New AFTINET WTO publication ‘No deal is better than a
bad deal’
- Update on GATS negotiations – Thanks to all members who
took action!
- Local council resolutions passed against GATS
- Crunch time in Geneva: Pressure tactics in the GATS
negotiations
- US FTA may pose risk to blood donation standards, ABC
- China trade plan wins few friends, The Age
- Gulf trade talks may widen, The Australian
- The other oil war: Halliburton’s agenda at the WTO
AFTINET Bulletin No
128
21 June 2006
- Report of AFTINET meeting with DFAT
- Update on WTO negotiations: New June deadline set
- Developed and developing countries clash over biopiracy
negotiations at WTO
- Australia given signal of services flight, The Hong Kong
Standard
- Free trade fears in Snowy backflip, The Age
- FTA hurting Thai farmers, Bangkok Post
- New book: Suiting themselves – How corporations drive
the global agenda
- Position vacant: AID/WATCH campaign & project
development officer
- Mark your diary! AFTINET fundraising dinner on Wednesday 16
August
AFTINET Bulletin No
127
12 May 2006
- Pharmaceutical company uses US FTA to push for review of PBS
listing
- Report back from AFTINET seminar ‘One year on: Pulling
back the curtain on the US FTA’
- AFTINET intervenes in parliamentary review on blood supply
under US FTA
- Mark your diary! AFTINET fundraising dinner on Wednesday 16
August
- Another WTO deadline missed. Developing countries and
community groups hold strong
- New research reports released: WTO’s Doha Round is a
recipe for disaster for developing countries
- Latin American countries band together against water
liberalisation
- China FTA may threaten furniture makers, The Age
- Sydney: World Debt Day events 15 – 16 May
- Melbourne: Fair Trade fortnight event 15 May
AFTINET Bulletin No
124
20 February 2006
- AFTINET campaign planning evening on Tuesday 7 March
- Take action: Pressure Trade Minister Vaile about the impact
of the US FTA on medicines policy!
- WTO disputes panel rules against regulation of genetically
engineered crops
- UN paper raises concerns about opening trade in services for
developing countries
- Bolivia calls for removal of water from trade agreements
- AFTINET membership renewals
- Melbourne event: World Trade Organisation 101 workshop
AFTINET Bulletin No
123
24 January 2006
- Public forum: Closed door deals and community resistance
– A report back from the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong, 6pm 15 February,
Sydney
- No celebration on the first anniversary of the Australia
– US Free Trade Agreement
- News clippings on the Australia-US FTA
- Charges dropped against WTO protestors in Hong Kong
- Australia-Thai trade deal to be challenged
- AFTINET fundraising drive in 2006
