The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a dangerous trade agreement designed to protect the interests of the largest multi-national corporations at the expense of Australian workers, consumers, the environment and the very foundations of Australian democracy.
And Malcolm Turnbull is exploring every opportunity to make sure this potentially disastrous deal will come to pass.
The TPP is a treaty that has been written behind closed doors by the corporate world so that they can amass even more power and profits. Here’s just a few things we can expect should the TPP come to pass:
Our ability to protect our health, wages, benefits and our unique Australian environment will be threatened.
Prescription drug prices will increase, access to life-saving drugs will decrease, and the profits of drug companies will go up.
- Corporations could collect more information about our personal lives as our internet data could be sent across borders with limited protection for your privacy.
The TPP has been designed and written by power-hungry corporations: allowing them to dismantle existing safeguards that protect Australians and even sue the Australian government if domestic laws impact their “expected future profits.”
Malcolm Turnbull is dangerously playing Australia’s future into the hands of the largest corporations - giving them unprecedented levels of power.
Tell Turnbull today: Don’t give away Australia’s future to faceless corporations!
More information
New Matilda. 22 January 2017.
ABC News. 12 October 2015.
ABC News. 23 January 2017.