Australia Seeks To Shield Domestic Audiovisual Content, Drug Benefits In TPP

CANBERRA -- Officials for Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) identified at least two major defensive interests in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations in advance of a round that took place here this week: keeping in place quotas for Australian content on television and radio, as well as maintaining the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) that subsidizes medicines for Australians. Critics of the TPP in the Australian Parliament have also identified the audiovisual quotas as one domestic policy they see as...