[LINK] Academics branded 'anti-US over FTA research'

[Roger Clarke]

At 10:26 +1000 30/7/06, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1700428.htm

This arises from an Opinion Piece by Ian Chubb in The Canberra Times 
of Saturday 29 July.  It was excellent (but a bit long for me to type 
in).

I can't see it yet on The Canberra Times site:
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/display.asp?class=Your%20say&subclass=General&category=Opinion

And there's no sign of it here yet
http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Media/Media_Releases/index.asp

It's unclear which ANU academics the critics would have had in mind. 
The economists that I heard give evidence were 
pro-US/anti-Australian;  but the Law Faculty's Matt Rimmer and myself 
were blunt about the huge amount of harm that the provisions of the 
US-dictated IP Chapter would do to Australia.

My submissions are at:
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/FTA17-JSCT-040413.html
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/FTA17-SSCFTA-040430.html
and
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/FTA17-JSCT-Submns.html

Matt's submission is at:
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jsct/usafta/subs/SUB027.pdf
See also:
Rimmer, M.  "Robbery Under Arms:  Copyright Law and the 
Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement", First Monday, March 
2006, Vol. 11 (3), URL: 
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_3/rimmer/index.html, SSRN: 
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=855805


At 10:26 +1000 30/7/06, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1700428.htm
>
>The head of the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra 
>says there has been an attempt to silence academics who are making 
>critical comments about issues of public importance.
>
>Vice-chancellor Professor Ian Chubb says ANU researchers were 
>labelled as "anti-American" after they released a study of 
>Australia's free trade agreement with the US, which revealed adverse 
>results.
>
>Professor Chubb says he received several calls suggesting the 
>university would be unwise to promote the research.
>
>"You have to be a particular sort of person to put your head up over 
>the parapet when it gets knocked every time, and labels are put on 
>you that you are uncomfortable with," Professor Chubb said.
>
>"It's dangerous and I think it's pathetic."
>
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