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

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

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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)