Re: Fwd: Re: [LINK] Promoting education in Australia

From: jeff.evans@dsd.vic.gov.au
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 11:01:08 EST

Howard

>From the ACCC website: <http://www.accc.gov.au/ecomm/access1b.htm>

"The same consumer protection laws which apply 'off line' apply online. In
other words, your web site needs to comply with the Trade Practices Act
1974 in the same way that a classified you put in the newspaper or a
representation you make to a customer does. " And goes on to offer "advice"
about structuring websites, spamming, etc.

I notice that this page actually breaks its own rules re framing others'
content in your own frameset. The link to Treasury: "Best Practice Model
for Industry titled 'Building confidence in electronic commerce'" opens
http://www.treasury.gov.au inside the ACCC frame!

Cheers

Jeff Evans, Online Services Manager, Business Access
Department of State and Regional Development (Vic)

Howard Lowndes <lannet@lannet.com.au>@www.anu.edu.au on 12/08/2001 10:24:32
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [LINK] Promoting education in Australia

Roger, where is the requirement for a company to publish it's ACN on it's
web site? I know of no such requirement. 

--
Howard.
LANNet Computing Associates
Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com

On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Roger Clarke wrote:

>
> >On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Tony Barry wrote:
> >>  The government, as we know, wished to promote students from overseas
> >>  to study in Australia. They do so at
> >>  http://studyinaustralia.gov.au/Contents/Splash.html
>
> >From: Howard Lowndes <lannet@lannet.com.au>
> >Mind you they might also respond that the site was developed as part of
> >their outsourcing and hence is not their problem, but that of the
> >outsourcer.
>
> There's no 'About Us' segment of the site, so it's not apparent from
> the site's content who the publisher is and hence what laws and
> policies they're subject to.  That's in breach of reasonable
> expectations, probably policy, and maybe the law.
>
> A company is required by law to provide their ACN on a web-site, and
> no ACN is evident;  so of course it can't be a company ...
>
> At:
> http://studyinaustralia.gov.au/Contents/Legal/BrandAustralia.html
> Brand Australia
> Trade Mark
> TM © The Brand Australia trade mark is the subject of copyright and
> is a trade mark of the Australian Tourist Commission, 1999.
> Legal | Privacy | Feedback | Full version | Links
> Last update: 18 Jul 2001
>
> ATC is a statutory authority within the ISR portfolio:
> http://gold.directory.gov.au/access/webdua.cgi?e0_lfz210_60.
&organizationalUnit&ou=Australian+Tourist+Commission%2cou=Statutory+authorities%2cou=Industry%5c%2c+Science+and+Resources%2cou=Portfolios%2co=Commonwealth+of+Australia%2cc=AU

> http://www.atc.gov.au/about/about.htm
>
> But the Privacy link goes to the standard *DETYA* privacy statement,
> which is a Javascript-driven popup window.
>
> A DNS-lookup on studyinaustralia.gov.au
> gives 165.12.253.223
> and a reverse DNS on that reverts to studyinaustralia.gov.au;  so no joy
there.
>
> But from:
> http://www.aunic.net/cgi-bin/whois.aunic
> domain:      studyinaustralia.gov.au
> descr:       Department of Education Training and Youth Affairs
> remarks:     Created 19991217
> ...
> person:      Mark Andrew Straker
> e-mail:      mark.straker@dewrsb.gov.au
>
> So someone in the range ATC / DETYA / DEWRSB seems to wear it.
> Plenty of scope for buck-passing there ...  Whoever's it is, it's all
> a bit of a cock-up.
>
> Declaration:  I consult in this area, and can be expected to be
> critical of other consultants' work ...
>
>

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