Trade
Higher cost for medicines under TPP trade agreement
Cost of medicines could sky-rocket under a new multi-nation trade agreement. The twelve nations involved in the TPP are meeting......
Live cattle export deal with China will export jobs
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has given the tick of approval to a live cattle export deal up to worth $2......
Is Indonesia’s cattle decision political payback?
Indonesia has shocked Australia by drastically cutting our live cattle imports by 80 per cent. The 250,000 cattle permits from......
Getting the fracks straight: South Aussies tour the US
Last week we spoke to a group of South Australians who travelled around the US, touring gas operations. The group......
China-Australia Free Trade Agreement: Did ChAFTA?
Tony Abbott has signed the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA) with China’s commerce minister Gao Hucheng in Canberra, after a......
Will clearer food labeling push prices up?
A new survey released by the federal government will attempt to respond to Australians urging for revision of country of......
Trade in Services Agreement leaked by Wikileaks
Yesterday WikiLeaks released 17 secret documents from the ongoing Trade In Services Agreement negotiations, revealing that Australia is pushing for......
MPs face Catch 22 over Transpacific Partnership Agreement
Australian Members of Parliament will have to chose between their right to access information that will impact citizens and their......
TPP: Expanding the monopoly rights of corporations
The Trans Pacific Partnership or TTP is a trade agreement between the United States, Australia, Japan and nine other countries......
The gruesome trade in live organ donations
“They’re just about to shoot my prisoner in China, and I’m flying to get my organ.” A severe shortage of......