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Australian consumer law is failing beer drinkers

  • Written by Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, Co-Director Centre for Commercial Law, Bond University
imageDo you know where your beer comes from?Shutterstock

If you’ve bought a “foreign” beer lately you might have noticed it wasn’t actually brewed in the country associated with the brand. Instead, it may have been brewed “under supervision of” or “under license from” the original creator, often using...

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