On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:54:42AM +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote: > I heard on the radio this morning the FTA has been blocked due to it > possibly makign us incur higher costs for medicines and stuff? > > Anyone know more? The ALP have signalled their intention to smack it down in its current form due to its adverse effect on the PBS, and also because the copyright extensions would cost Australia $700m/yr, according to their bean-counters. Apparently we would end up gaining maybe $50m/yr at best, as opposed to a couple of billion per year. This made them not particularly well-disposed to the FTA as a whole. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> "The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_, available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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