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Consumers 2011: Australian Consumer Policy, Law and Practice is being held in Sydney on 7 and 8 June 2011. Registration to attend this event is now open.
Consumers 2011 is an opportunity for compliance professionals, business people, lawyers, consumer advisers and advocates to hear from and mix with Australia's leading consumer policy and enforcement officials along with expert practitioners and academics.
Program highlights include:
- the Australian Consumer Law in practice
- the new consumer law enforcement environment
- the new credit and financial services landscape
- reforms affecting the energy and telecommunications sector and developments on the food labelling review
- new developments in consumer policy and economics
- the challenges of e-commerce and m-commerce for consumer policy and enforcement
- the release of Australia's first national survey of consumer and business awareness, understanding and experiences of consumer issues: the Australian Consumer Survey.
Some of the keynote speakers include:
- the Hon David Bradbury MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer
- the Hon Bill Shorten MP, Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation
- Ross Gittins AM, Economics Editor, The Sydney Morning Herald
- Graeme Samuel AC, Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- Dr Michael Jenkin, Chair of the OECD's Committee on Consumer Policy and Director-General, Canadian Office of Consumer Affairs
- Erik Heller, CEO Sweeney Research Sydney
- Nick Stace, CEO, CHOICE
- Simon Edwards, Microsoft Australia.
Consumers 2011 is presented by the Australian Treasury, with the support of Australia's consumer agencies through the Standing Committee of Officials of Consumer Affairs.
To register for this event, visit www.consumerlaw.gov.au
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For further details and to register for this event, visit www.consumerlaw.gov.au