AUSFTA Events

AUS FTA Sydney Rally July 2003

AUS FTA Canberra Rally 2003


One Year On: Pulling Back The Curtain on the US FTA

"One Year On - pulling back the curtain on the US FTA" was a forum to discuss the impacts of the FTA as well as the current monitoring that was being planned. The forum also aimed to discuss and identify opportunities for collaboration and campaigning. The presentations and speeches are below.

Overview of the social policy and economic impacts - Dr Patricia Ranald

Audio   Presentations

Access to medicines and the PBS - Andrew Searles (ANU Medicines Research Project)

Audio   Presentations

Competitive tendering in community Service - Prof Linda Hancock (Deakin University)

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Genetic Engineering and Food Labelling Standards - John Hepburn (Greenpeace) 

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Local content laws and impact on cultural policy - Lynn Gailey (Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance)

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Factory closures and impacts on manufacturing - Alister Kentish (Australian Manufacturing Workers Unions)

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Copyright and the threat to public interest in libraries and digital products -  Sarah Waladan (Australian Libraries Copyright Committee & Australian Digital Alliance)

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Copyright and Open Source software - Rusty Russel (Linux) 

What Have we Traded Away? - AUSFTA 2 years on

On the 4th of July 2007 AFTINET hosted the forum "What have we traded away?", a look at the AUSFTA 2 years on. The forum looked at the impacts of the FTA on the blood fractionation services, copyright law, labour, and local media content.

See AFTINET's flyer and speech by Dr Patricia Ranald.

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