[LINK] Adverts on govt websites

[Janet Hawtin]

On 21 January 2014 10:38, Janet Hawtin <janet at hawtin.net.au> wrote:

>
>> In April the Gillard government introduced the first trial of
>> advertising on a government website on the bureau site for one year.
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>> Quite a racket, if you ask me.
>>
>> Jan
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>
> How far is that from privatising those functions?
> Perhaps it is a way of outing corporate sponsorship?
>
> Schools and universities are short of funding
> That puts us squarely in line for corporatisation of education?
>
> If the companies are multinational does that have an impact on what AU
> governance means?
> I believe TPP means governments can not act in ways which impact corporate
> profit
> even for social or ecological reasons.
>

hypothetically

if TPP plus corporate sponsorship of different aspects of government
then what happens re competition?
eg. one company profits causing another company to lose profits.

The small print of the TPP must be interesting.

Stephen you could have big brother or masterchef selection of policies
and sponsors. Universal franchise moves to universal franchise =).