Policies/Foreign Policy and Treaty Making

Support principles of transparency and openness in treaties and trade agreements

 * Ensure treaty negotiations are subject to oversight and public participation.
 * Require a window for public participation and the availability of draft texts prior to signing.
 * Conduct a constitutional referendum to require parliamentary oversight and consent in treaty making and other international instruments.
 * Renegotiate or withdraw from treaties which restrict policy making in areas of intellectual property reform and public health.
 * Treaties to be reviewed will include, but are not limited to:
 * Berne Convention
 * WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT)
 * Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
 * Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
 * Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA)
 * Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
 * Convention on Psychotropic Substances
 * Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
 * Ensure Australia complies fully with all treaty clauses which protect individual rights.
 * Remove exceptions granted to Australia which potentially reduce the capacity of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to protect Australian citizens.
 * No inclusion of investor-state dispute settlement provisions in trade agreements.
 * Foreign businesses investing in Australia to retain equivalent legal protections to domestic businesses.
 * Begin negotiations on an international treaty for a free and open internet.
 * Treaty should enshrine net neutrality, freedom from state control, and protection for private communication, free expression, and unrestricted access to information.

Expand use of diplomacy and aid in support of global human rights

 * Increase foreign aid to 0.5 per cent of GDP by 2014-15 to meet the agreed deadline for Millennium Development Goals.
 * Priorities for additional aid to include programs to support empowerment of women, environmental protection, regional capacity building (including renewable energy), emergency response, and provision of generic medicines (see patents policy).
 * Aid should be provided with consideration towards any deleterious effects upon the local economies of recipient countries, ensuring that local producers are not disadvantaged by the dumping of aid products, and with local suppliers of goods and services used where practical.
 * Support political asylum or subsidiary protection status for overseas whistleblowers per provisions of Article 14 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
 * Suspend extradition processes and law enforcement cooperation in cases where:
 * Only political offences have been committed.
 * The act being investigated is not an offence in Australia.
 * A death penalty could potentially apply.
 * The nation involved has not ratified the United Nations Convention against Torture.
 * Utilise diplomatic and political channels to seek urgent clarification from nations that Australia has intelligence sharing arrangements with regarding the scope of monitoring of Australian citizens by intelligence agencies.