TPP negotiations threaten to forcibly commercialise state-owned bodies
The ABC, SBS and Australia Post could lose special regulatory treatment under trade measures being pushed for by the US.
Leaked details of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations, published today by WikiLeaks, reveal that the futures of publicly owned enterprises such as Australia Post, the ABC, SBS and state power utilities may be on the negotiating table in secret talks under way in Hawaii this week.
WikiLeaks has published previously unknown details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations relating to the treatment of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) – publicly owned corporations that do not operate along strictly commercial lines and deliver benefits to the community as a whole.
The latest TPP leak, published by WikiLeaks, is available at www.wikileaks.org
