Last week during budget estimates, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade answered questions on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.

This week in Europe, passage of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) came closer to the rocks, with its own rapporteur telling the European Parliament not to pass the treaty.   

On Friday 2 March, the ADA and ALCC co-hosted a private lunch for the IP negotiators during the eleventh round of negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, alongside non-profit NZ advocacy group, NZRise, with presentations from four prominent copyright and economics experts.