Australia
East Asia Forum | 4-Jul-2016
Public debate over how best to manage the interests of foreign investors and host states has resurfaced in Australia.
Sidney Morning Herald | 27-Jun-2016
Australian governments of late seem only to listen to the din of money as though that equates with national interest.
The Guardian | 8-Jun-2016
Provision allows firms to sue in international tribunal if laws introduced or changed that hurt their interests.
The Guardian | 8-Jun-2016
ALP says it will try to change three major agreements that allow corporations to sue if they think a government has damaged their interests
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Australia ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
ICTSD | 26-May-2016
The tribunal considered that the main and determinative reason for the 2011 restructuring was in order for the tobacco giant to bring a legal claim under the BIT Treaty, using a Hong Kong-based entity.
Health Canal | 19-May-2016
“Despite the losses and defeats, tobacco companies will keep coming back for more. They will fight on regardless in order to delay and disrupt the rollout of the World Health Organization’s best-practice tobacco control measures,”
Sidney Morning Herald | 11-Apr-2016
US mining company Nucoil is using a free trade agreement to put pressure on the Australian government to pay compensation over cancelled licences.
Politico | 4-Jan-2016
The inclusion of an ISDS in an EU agreement could raise the likelihood of such cases being brought against all kinds of public interest and health protecting policies in the future.
The Age | 21-Dec-2015
I only wish to caution that we should be wary of anyone who suggests that the decision demonstrates that ISDS isn’t problematic.
The Australian Financial Review | 18-Dec-2015
Cigarette company Philip Morris has suffered another defeat in its long-running bid to overturn Australia’s plain packaging laws.
keywords:
Australia ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
