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meet our AUTHORS<br />
the AUSTRALIAN CONSUMER LAW<br />
Coming to grips with the ACL is essential given<br />
its specific protections and Stephen Corones’<br />
recent book, The Australian Consumer Law,<br />
assists practitioners, academics and students<br />
to understand the Australian Consumer Law<br />
regime and its impact.<br />
More information about<br />
The Australian Consumer Law<br />
can be found on page 41<br />
What is the Australian Consumer Law and<br />
why is it significant<br />
The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) commenced<br />
on 1 January 2011. It unifies and rationalises<br />
an untidy web of 17 different Commonwealth,<br />
State and Territory consumer protection laws.<br />
As a result there is now one uniform Australian<br />
Consumer Law that applies in all jurisdictions<br />
throughout Australia and across all sectors of<br />
the economy, thereby significantly reducing<br />
business compliance costs.<br />
What was your aim in writing The Australian<br />
Consumer Law<br />
The changes brought about by the ACL have<br />
created the need for a new book to explain<br />
the obligations of businesses and the rights<br />
of consumers under the new law. It seeks<br />
to explain the scope and importance of the<br />
statutory causes of action created by the ACL.<br />
Throughout the work an attempt is made to<br />
explain how the various protections inter-relate,<br />
the scope for overlap, and why each provision is<br />
necessary to provide complete protection.<br />
Who is likely to benefit from reading this work<br />
The aim of the work is to provide legal<br />
practitioners, business people and students<br />
with an analysis of all aspects of the ACL.<br />
Stephen<br />
Corones<br />
Stephen Corones was appointed a Professor<br />
within the Faculty of Law at Queensland<br />
University of Technology in 1994.<br />
In 2007, he was engaged by the Productivity<br />
Commission to prepare a Comparative Study<br />
of State and Commonwealth Consumer<br />
Protection legislation and to advise the<br />
Productivity Commission generally in relation<br />
to its terms of reference for the reform of<br />
Australia’s consumer protection laws.<br />
In 2008, he was appointed by the Minister for<br />
Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs to<br />
the Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory<br />
Council (CCAAC) for a three year term. The<br />
appointment was renewed in July 2011 for a<br />
further three year term.<br />
In 2009, Stephen led the CCAAC inquiry<br />
into the adequacy of existing laws on implied<br />
conditions and warranties, the existence of<br />
extended warranties and their interaction<br />
laws on implied conditions and warranties<br />
in Australia.<br />
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