{"id":12888,"date":"2021-09-10T00:02:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T00:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12888"},"modified":"2021-09-10T00:02:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T00:02:45","slug":"australias-trips-waiver-support-takes-far-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/australias-trips-waiver-support-takes-far-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s TRIPS waiver support takes far too long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens International Aid &amp; Development spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-09-08\/australia-waive-intellectual-property-covid-vaccines\/100445094\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that the Australian Government will support the waiver of intellectual property provisions on Covid-19 vaccines. The next meeting of the WTO TRIPS Council is on September 14.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a big relief, but it has taken far too long. This proposal came before the WTO almost a year ago and quickly amassed the support of dozens of countries committed to supporting vaccine production worldwide.<br \/>\n\u201cAustralia hindered global efforts while millions were infected with the virus across the Global South. It\u2019s been completely indefensible behaviour.<br \/>\n\u201cNow, after months of pressure from civil society and across the parliament, the government appears to have changed its tune.<br \/>\n\u201cWe now need a clear and unambiguous commitment from the government: not only that Australia will back the waiver but will endorse it wholeheartedly and work to get other hold-outs on the same page.<br \/>\n\u201cEvery month that goes by without WTO agreement on this matter, more people across poorer nations will unnecessarily get sick and die. It\u2019s beyond time for global consensus and for Australia to pull its bloody weight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens International Aid &amp; Development spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to\u00a0reports\u00a0that the Australian Government will support the waiver of intellectual property provisions on Covid-19 vaccines. The next meeting of the WTO TRIPS Council is on September 14. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThis is a big relief, but it has taken far too long. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/australias-trips-waiver-support-takes-far-too-long\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australia\u2019s TRIPS waiver support takes far too long&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}