Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That—

(1) The Senate:

(a) notes that the Coalition Government has waived labour market testing for contractual service suppliers for six new countries in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP-11), as well as including investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms; and

(b) calls on the Federal Government to:

  (i) remove Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions from the TPP-11, and

  (ii) reinstate market testing for contractual service suppliers for Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan, Canada, Mexico and Chile.

(2) There be laid on the table by the Leader of the Government in the Senate documents demonstrating that:

(a) ISDS provisions have been removed from the TPP; and

(b) labour market testing for contractual service suppliers has been reinstated for Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan, Canada, Mexico and Chile.

(3) Further consideration of the Customs Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Implementation) Bill 2018 and the Customs Tariff Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Implementation) Bill 2018, or any other bill intended to implement any part of the TPP be deferred until the next sitting day after the documents specified in paragraph (2) are tabled.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that motion No. 1085, moved by Senator Hanson-Young, be agreed to.