PACER Plus Website Links FYI

Please see below for a series of factsheets on PACER-Plus.  These 2-page factsheets are intended for distribution to journalists, non-government organisations, government officials and other interested parties.  They can be used as a set to encourage discussion about the potential implications of PACER-Plus.

Three factsheets have been prepared by the Australian Civil Society Network on Pacific Trade, and another four were produced by the People's Health Movement (Australia) and the Public Health Association of Australia (Victoria Branch). 


Options for the design of a new trade agreement between Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific island countries

Supporting livelihoods?   
Potential implications of PACER-Plus for agriculture, food security and land ownership in the Pacific island countries

Improving Pacific governance?
Potential implications of PACER-Plus for government revenue and public services in the Pacific island countries

Tackling lifestyle diseases?  
Potential implications of PACER-Plus for alcohol, tobacco and high-fat content foods in the Pacific island countries

Improving access to medicine?  
The implications of including intellectual property rules under PACER-Plus

Sending health workers abroad?  
Potential implications of PACER-Plus for nursing and healthcare in the Pacific island countries

Health services for all?  
Potential implications of PACER-Plus for access to health services in the Pacific island countries

All of the factsheets were prepared in July 2010.  Further factsheets will be added to this series in the future.