When tobacco company Philip Morris sued Australia over our plain packaging laws, it's fair to say we were taken by surprise. How can a foreign company take a nation's government to tribunal for protecting its citizens health? The answer is Investor State Dispute Settlement, an obscure clause in free trade agreements allowing corporations to sue foreign governments for what it perceives be unfair discrimination. In practice, this tends to end up happening over regulations in two area: health and the environment. This episode unpacks how ISDS could put a stranglehold on regulations and policies that put people ahead of profit.
Producer/Presenter: Cheyne Anderson.
Featuring:
Dr Patricia Ranald - Convenor of Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network.
Dr Carl Rhodes - Professor of Organisational Studies at the University of Technology Sydney.
Matthew Rimmer - Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law at the Queensland University of Technology.
Max Bonnell - Partner, White and Case.
Genocide in the suburbs
The inner lives of wild animals: Conservation’s new frontier
Rewilding the city
Why we let corporations act like monsters
How to make a new carbon tax that sticks
Dark cloud: The true cost of data
We make a pro-climate ad campaign
The best (and worst) ads of the decade
The race to impregnate male seahorses
Forever chemicals: The poison in everyday items
Eco-anxiety: My two years in Sydney off the grid
Emotions let us make better decisions
#173 - Should we protect feral animals?
#172 - Algae and the human right to clean air
#171 - Trees? Not in my backyard
#170 - Is capitalism incompatible with a healthy climate?
#169 - Microgrids
#168 - Watch out! Seasons are shifting
#167 - Tracking sustainable development goals in our boardrooms and classrooms
#166 - How vibrations change living things
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