Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a final supplementary question. I asked how it was going to be assessed, Mr President. The Productivity Commission, the pharmaceutical payments review and, most recently, the Harper review into competition policy—another bunch of scaremongers—have all recommended that an independent economic analysis of the intellectual property and patent provisions in trade deals be carried out and published before any negotiations are concluded. Will the government listen to these groups and ask the Productivity Commission to undertake an economic analysis of IP and patent provisions in the TPP and publish it before it is signed?