Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I present the government’s response to the report of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties inquiry into Investments Uruguay, ISDS UN Convention and Convention SKAO. I seek leave to incorporate the document in Hansard.

Leave granted.

The document read as follows—

Australian Government response to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties report 188:

Investments Uruguay, ISDS UN Convention and Convention SKAO

JUNE 2020

Introduction

The Government thanks the Committee for its consideration of the Agreement between Australia and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay on the Promotion and Protection of Investments; the United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration; and the Convention Establishing the Square Kilometre Array Observatory.

The Government provides the following response to the Committee’s recommendations.

Response to the recommendations

Response to the additional comments by the Australian Greens