Palmer sued Western Australia’s government in the High Court and lost. But an obscure clause in a little-known trade agreement is giving him a second chance
- Honorary research associate, University of Sydney
The United States wants to use the negotiations to counter Chinese influence in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Investor-state dispute settlement clauses in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership allow Australia to be sued for reducing fossil fuel use.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement prevents signatories from tightening regulations, except in specified sectors — and aged care hasn’t been named as one of those exceptions.
Australia won’t release the text until after it is signed.
Australia and other governments refused to release the text until after it was signed on Sunday. It’ll do little for Australian trade.
Australia won’t let Australians see the Australia-EU deal before it is signed. The EU is publishing running updates.
Investor State Dispute Settlement Procedures open the prospect of legal cases it would cost Australia millions to defend.
Australia was hoping to get broader access to Indian markets as part of a new trade deal that covers almost half of the world’s population.
The biggest barrier to Australia and much of the rest of the world signing up to the world’s biggest trading bloc appears to have been removed.
Australia comprehensively defeated the tobacco giant, but is left with a multi million dollar bill.
No commitments on environmental standards, but foreign corporations will shore up their rights to sue the Australian and Indonesian governments.
Labor says it will wave through the 11-nation Trans Pacific Partnership deal, then amend it in government. That won’t be easy.
Many provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been suspended after the United States pulled out. But there’s still much to debate about the regional free trade agreement.
Despite arguments that a controversial clause in the Transpacific Partnership will not affect sovereignty, governments would be foolish to agreeing to it.
Ten years on from the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement, Australia is entering another round of negotiations towards the new and controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership. In this Free Trade Scorecard series…
In the history of trade agreement negotiations, most have been undertaken in secret, justified on the grounds that the governments’ negotiating positions would be weakened if they became public. But this…
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