Human Rights

Submission to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committe, May 2008

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Summary

The CTU has consistently raised the risks of a free trade agreement with China. However we have also recognised that the overwhelming majority of the countries in the world are negotiating free trade agreements and already some 2000 have been signed.

The CTU is opposed to a neo liberal approach to free trade that seeks to break down any barriers to the unfettered access by multinational corporations to land, resources, workers, culture, plant life and so on. We oppose a globalisation agenda that treats labour as a commodity, weakens food security and prohibits nations from controlling their economies in the interests of their people. 

Submission to the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committe,  October 2007

From the CTU policy book, produced November 2000.

10. POLITICAL ISSUES AND CIVIL RIGHTS

10.1 Electoral
10.1.1 The CTU opposes an electoral system which allows a minority vote party to hold power and supports the principle of proportional representation being introduced into our electoral system to ensure that Parliament is fully representative.