Law of AustraliaModule 6
Business, consumer, competition and workplace law: companies, insolvency, the Australian Consumer Law, competition, intellectual property and the Fair Work system
Much of Australian business regulation is national. The Commonwealth Parliament has used its powers over corporations, trade and commerce, and referrals from the states to build national schemes: the Corporations Act 2001, the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (with the Australian Consumer Law inside it) and the Fair Work Act 2009. The result is a system that is easier to learn than the state-by-state laws of private law, and it is enforced by powerful regulators: ASIC, the ACCC and the Fair Work Commission and Ombudsman. This module follows a business from its formation to its closing, and through its dealings with customers, competitors and workers.
This course explains the law of Australia, not US law. Rules that look the same elsewhere may be different.
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