QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE › Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
Senator PATRICK (South Australia) (14:32): Even though Australia's plain packaging legislation for tobacco products was found under challenge to be constitutionally valid by our highest court, millions of dollars of taxpayer money was spent defending litigation because of ISDS provisions. Does the minister agree that ISDS poses a significant risk to Australia's legal sovereignty, as corporations have the potential to challenge rights to regulate in the public interest?