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Re: [sharechat] Free Trade ..investment opportunities

From:	"Kerry Doson" <croca@ozemail.com.au>
Date:	Sun, 11 May 2003 14:15:55 +1000

Hoop, I wouldn't be too envious of the Aussi FTA.

Some of the quid pro quo side effects are likely to be an attack on the pharmaceutical benefits scheme providing affordable medicines(and which will no doubt assist Howard's objective of dismembering Medicare); erosion of local production quotas in the cultural industries such as film; a loosening of quarantine restrictions; and free kicks for Gates and mates under the guise of more stringent "protection" of intellectual property rights.

Such bilateral deals also undermine any impetus towards genuine multilateral agreement.

As one commentator here recently remarked: "Imperial powers don't have friends, they have vassals."

Best wishes, Newz.

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