Can consumers be confident the products we buy online now are safe? Not really. Changing the law to catch up with other countries would help.
- Professor of Comparative and Transnational Law, University of Sydney
- Professor of Anglo-American Law, University of Tokyo
Australian needs a ‘general safety provision’ that obliges firms to be proactive, not reactive, in ensuring they supply safe consumer products.
Foreign companies can get rights Australian companies can’t, so long as they are actually foreign.
Opposition against Investor-State Dispute Settlement clauses seems likely to fall away as Asian economies flock to the TPP.
Legislation requiring tobacco products to be in plain packaging was passed by the House of Representatives last night. This is the first such measure in the world to come so close to becoming law. We asked…
Prime Minister Julia Gillard was one of the first world leaders to visit Japan after the nation was stricken on 3 March by the earthquake-tsunami-radiation triple disaster. But the Australian government…
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