Author Topic: Right to repair in Australia - hope yet.  (Read 808 times)

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Offline aargeeTopic starter

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Right to repair in Australia - hope yet.
« on: October 29, 2020, 09:30:28 pm »
The ACCC has taken up the Right to Repair cause here in Australia, as much as the ACCC is a toothless tiger, we live in hope that the government listen.
Tractor repair (John Deere et al) is at the top of the list but it extends to all forms of repair, and the tractor situation may just get the whole idea over the line.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-19/right-to-repair-tractors-taken-up-by-the-accc/12156196
Not easy, not hard, just need to be incentivised.
 
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Re: Right to repair in Australia - hope yet.
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2020, 09:43:15 pm »
I am with you.  If the repairs are totally free, then the OEM has control.  After that, the owner has as much right to repair as any service station.
 

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Re: Right to repair in Australia - hope yet.
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2020, 10:38:10 pm »
ACCC is a toothless tiger

Wish Professor Allan Fels was still running the ACCC. He was really good.
 


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