A Sense Of Deja Vu: Proposed Reforms To Australia´s Consumer Policy Framework

Key Points

• Recommendations to streamline Australian consumer protection law regarding product safety and implied terms are to be welcomed.
• Australian businesses face the prospect of mandatory product defect reporting.

As this article is published we are awaiting the release of the Productivity Commission's Final Report into Consumer Policy.

The Productivity Commission's draft report, Review of Australia's Consumer Policy Framework, was released as two volumes on 12 December 2007 together with a consultancy report, "Comparison of Generic Consumer Protection Legislation", by Professor Stephen Corones and Professor Sharon Christensen, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology.