The Australian "level playing field" exposed:
Alan Asher, described by the ABC's Lateline presenter Maxine McKew in March 1998, as, "deputy chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission... he was Australia's representative on the United Nations Commission on transnationals. He has spent twenty years working on economic development in developing countries...Quote by ALAN ASHER “Well perhaps I should say in a country (Australia) where 80% of the economic activity is already managed by international corporations and in a world where bilateral investment treaties cover most of the economies of the world anyway I think the concerns (about the MAI) they expressed are just a little too late.” |
The Australian "level playing field"