Oz Government: TPP papers will stay secret
Australians interested in knowing just what's going to be in the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership agreement will have to hope someone leaks the latest text, with the government resisting last week's Senate order to produce the documents.
According to Fairfax, the government says the treaty text will only be made public after it's been signed.
However, the government's trade minister Andrew Robb did concede to the newspaper that the TPP's contentious investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) processes, which allow corporations to sue governments over local regulations, would be supported if the TPP gave Australia “access to markets including those of the US, Japan and Canada” (this seems odd to The Register, considering that Australia has standing free trade agreements with America and Canada, and is currently negotiating a similar agreement with Japan).
