TPPA Negotiation Farce Must End: Pirate Party
Pirate Party Australia are disgusted at reports that the United States plans to cancel the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) stakeholder programme[1]. The Party gave a presentation at a...
View ArticlePirate Party Australia Webcast – Episode 1
In our inaugural episode of the Pirate Party Australia Webcast, Sam begins a four-part series of readings from Rick Falkvinge’s “History of Copyright,” and speaks to Simon Frew, Deputy President of...
View ArticlePirate Party Calls for an End to TPPA Mess
Pirate Party Australia is disturbed by the decision of the Canadian and Mexican Governments to join in the opaque and fundamentally flawed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations. The...
View ArticlePirate Party Cautiously Welcomes ACTA Report
Pirate Party Australia cautiously welcomes the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties’ (JSCOT) report on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which recommends delaying ratification of the...
View ArticleDFAT Correspondence Regarding Australia-Japan Free Trade Agreement
Pirate Party Australia sent an email to DFAT in June to ascertain what provisions will be included in the Australia-Japan Free Trade Agreement. Today, two months later, we received a response. It...
View ArticlePirate Party Disappointed Canada and Mexico Joining TPP Negotiations
Pirate Party Australia is disappointed that Canada and Mexico will formally join negotiations for the flawed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) this week. The Pirate Party has been very critical...
View ArticleTrans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Contains ACTA-Like Provisions
Stakeholders at a briefing held by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) last Friday were told that the upcoming regional agreement, Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), would...
View ArticlePirate Party Outraged by Gene Patent Case Outcome
Pirate Party Australia is outraged that a legal challenge to the BRCA1 gene patent has failed[1][2]. “This ruling is a slap in the face for all of those who will suffer or know somebody who will suffer...
View ArticlePirate Party Australia Webcast – Episode 9
Just a quick episode this week as Sam runs through the news on the BRCA1 Patent case. Subscribe to the feed, or view past episodes. Pirate Party Australia’s Press Release Techdirt story on Australian...
View ArticleTalk Like a Pirate Day pillow fight for cancer support!
MELBOURNE — At 6:30 pm today, Pirates of all persuasions will descend upon Federation Square to engage in a swashbuckling pillow fight. Money raised by the event, organised by Pirate Party Australia,...
View ArticleUS certification provisions in the TPP would create copyright vassal states
The Pirate Party denounces any attempts to include certification provisions in the highly secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The United States, one of twelve negotiating nations...
View ArticleFederal Court allows gene patent cancer to spread
The Pirate Party is concerned that Friday’s decision of the Full Federal Court to uphold a patent over the BRCA1 breast cancer gene[1] poses an enormous threat to the treatment of breast cancer and...
View ArticleTrans-Pacific Partnership to threaten global health
A recent leak of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) draft intellectual property chapter shows that negotiators remain divided over key issues[1]. The leak reveals that in May 2014 there was...
View ArticleSecret Trans-Pacific Partnership text hits Sydney — Pirate Party demands...
The Pirate Party wishes to draw attention to the TPP ministerial meeting to occur tomorrow, 25 October 2014, and continues to reiterate the demand that the draconian text be made public. Tomorrow, 25...
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