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Food producers and suppliers in Australia would be aware that on 1 July 2016 changes were made to the Australian Consumer Law (the ACL) to introduce Country of Origin Food Labelling Information Standards. As of 1 July 2018 all businesses must now comply with the new labelling standards. Products grown, produced or made in Australia now…

The ACCC has signaled a warning to businesses about the new B2B unfair contract terms. It has commenced proceedings against JJ Richards & Sons Pty Ltd alleging that eight clauses in its standard form small business contract are void because they are unfair under the Australian Consumer Law. It is the first such proceedings by…

Because people change. We change our appearance. We change our views. We change our goals. Just like Anakin Skywalker defecting from the Force to the Dark Side, people can change their minds, be influenced or have different objectives and the outcome can be problematic to deal with (although its highly unlikely someone will build a…

If you are a Franchisor, now is the time to review and update your Disclosure Document for the financial year ending 30 June 2017. The Franchising Code of Conduct (the Code) requires Franchisors to update their Disclosure Documents within 4 months of the end of their financial year. This means the Disclosure must be updated by…

Until it’s not. Then it is just expensive (oh and generally bad). There is so much literature on why humans put things off and procrastinate so I won’t attempt to cover this again here. Everyone could recall a time where we put something off that we really should have addressed straight away. Not dealing with…