The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secret trade agreement that will adversely affect the environment, worker’s rights, cost of medicines, internet freedoms, food safety, intellectual property rights and indigenous rights. The TPP covers 40% of global trade and will impact 800 million people in the partnering nations. The deal is being negotiated behind closed doors in secret. The content will only being released to our elected representatives and the public once it has been signed off on. This agreement is not only undemocratic but would also open the possibility of transnational corporations suing the Australian government, with the possible loss of billions of taxpayer dollars. Currently the TPP has been put on hold due to some unresolved hitches. But the push is on to get it through before the US presidential election in 2016

This week, members of FoE's recently reinvigorated Economic Justice Collective discuss the TPP, and their new report 'Fracking the Planet: How the Trans Pacific Partnership will expand fracking in Australia and around the globe’.