Hannah Frances Ahern

We examine the ACCC’s response to CHOICE’s designated complaint and its call for stronger product safety rules, including for online marketplaces. At the Mallesons Digital Future Summit in August, Commissioner Woodward specifically called out the risk of unsafe, prohibited or banned products getting through to Australian consumers in circumstances where online marketplaces act as intermediaries for overseas suppliers.

The U.S. arrest and deportation of Kilmar Abrego, a Salvadoran citizen legally residing in the United States, followed by the deportation of over 200 Venezuelan immigrants and refugees to CECOT, a Salvadoran maximum-security prison, as part of Trump administration’s dealmaking with President Nayib Bukele, have led to a storm of questions about due process (or lack thereof) in both the U.S. and El Salvador.