Published: June 13, 2019
Penalty handed to Birubi Art should signify ‘serious cultural harm’ done, judge told
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is seeking a $2m to $2.5m penalty against a now-defunct company, Birubi Art, which breached consumer law by selling thousands of Indonesian-made items as Aboriginal art.
In October the federal court found that Birubi Art had “made false or misleading representations that products it sold were made in Australia and hand-painted by Australian Aboriginal persons, in breach of the Australian consumer law”.
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