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(Australia) TPP - what we don't know may hurt us
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/tpp--what-we-dont-know-may-hurt-us-20150629-gi04s9TPP - what we don't know may hurt us
June 30, 2015
Peter Martin
The US Senate has given the green light, and Australia is set to buckle. If you don't yet know what TPP stands for, listen up. Our government could sign it within weeks. Only then will we really know what's in it.
That's right. As with the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement and the Japan-Australia Free Trade Agreement, the content of the Trans-Pacific Partnership will remain secret right up until the day it is signed. Afterwards, our parliament will be able to look at it, but not to change it. Alice is inside the looking glass.
It's hard to know that you need to write a submission if you don't know what's being proposed.
A Senate committee reported on the processes surrounding the TPP on Thursday. It said the parliament would be presented with an all-or-nothing choice. It could examine the TPP (after it had been signed) and either vote for or against it, but not change a word.
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