The Unlikely New Champion of Consumer Rights: China
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By Ben Halder
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WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
From luxury handbags to beef mince, Chinese companies are upending the country’s legacy of producing knockoff goods for a cost.
By Ben Halder
For decades, China has been notorious for knockoffs and adulterated food.
A new generation of wealthy Chinese are willing to pay extra for technology-based authentication systems that allow them to track goods from their source.
It’s spawning a new industry of companies and platforms selling these services at a premium and the pandemic has given them fresh impetus.
Review: Biting the Clouds: a Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act by Fiona Foley, UQP
In late 1897, the colonial Queensland parliament introduced the oddly named the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, joining colonial panic about Aboriginal people’s opium use with a new regime of protective governance.
Concern about this especially the use of charcoal opium, the toxic ash left in pipes had been growing since the 1870s, and there was evidence opium was being used as payment for Aboriginal labour and sex.
Penalties for opium supply to Aboriginal people were included in the new legislation, but the Act was mainly designed as a program of protection, structured around establishing a series of large reserves to which Aboriginal people were forcibly removed.
Several representatives from NAFCU-member credit unions Wednesday joined members of the association’s advocacy team for a videoconference meeting with Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio. The group thanked Brown for his work with committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, on reforms to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/anti-money laundering (AML) regime, leading the way for its inclusion in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and discussed a number of industry issues.
NAFCU President and CEO Dan Berger, Vice President of Legislative Affairs Brad Thaler, and Associate Director of Legislative Affairs Sarah Jacobs attended the meeting, alongside leadership from Ohio-based credit unions, including: