AFA Makes Submission on behalf of Industry Members

The Australian Furniture Association (AFA) welcomed the opportunity to make a submission to the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources’ consultation Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) on reforming Australia’s Illegal Logging regulations. The AFA supports the...

Top Tips To Protect Your Furniture Designs Under Australian Law

This article provides basic tips for protecting your furniture or homeware designs under Australian law.   We’ll begin with a case study. Imagine you have just developed a new design for a lamp. It features an unusual shaped base and a distinctive holder for the...

Australia’s ‘five pillar economy’ – manufacturing

Manufacturing has changed the world and is itself changing, more fundamentally than at any time since the industrial revolution. Does this spell the end of manufacturing in Australia, or a new beginning? Our immediate challenge is that the resources boom has ‘hollowed...