2006 Bulletins Index

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 126
5 April 2006

• REMINDER: AFTINET seminar ‘One year on: Pulling back the curtain on the US FTA’ Friday 7 April
• Enter the G6 – Australia leads the way in exclusive WTO meetings
• Update on GATS negotiations – water, energy, education and postal services targeted
• WTO protestors finally acquitted of all changes from December Ministerial
• Economic sectors split in bid to secure China FTA, ABC News
• FTAs – Trading away our traditional knowledge
• Wanted: AFTINET volunteer with graphic design or cartooning skills
• Campaign to fund our ABC!

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

• 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