QUT Media4th November 2025 The United Kingdom Parliament is considering a bill aimed at making smoking obsolete, which has been endorsed in a report by long-time tobacco endgame campaigner, QUT Professor Matthew Rimmer. Bill...
Read More16 July 2025 QUT legal expert Professor Mathew Rimmer is available to speak on the yesterday’s decision: · Judge doubted negligence law appropriate vehicle to deal with climate change matters · Judge said action on climate...
Read MoreQUT News 26th September 2024 Australia could boost funding to transfer sustainable technology to developing countries and make technology and data open and accessible to help implement the UN Pact for the Future, QUT...
Read MoreQUT News, 22 February 202422nd February 2024The role of intellectual property rights in technology transfer to developing countries and least developed countries to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a major...
Read MoreAustralian Centre for Health Law Research QUT Faculty of Business and Law The Gibson Room, Level 10, Z Block, Gardens Point, QUT Friday, the 8th December 2023 Overview The Australian Centre for Health Law Research is hosting a...
Read MoreQUT News 29th November 2023 QUT researcher Professor Matthew Rimmer, who contributed to the Senate report on the new tobacco regulation bill, has praised the legislation as laying the foundation for law reform on regulation of...
Read MoreBerkeley Technology Law Journal Matthew Rimmer ACT Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury MLA Abstract This Article tells the story of the fight for the right to repair in Australia. It is intended to complement comparative research...
Read Moreby Matthew RimmerFaculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD 4000, AustraliaSustainability 2023, 15(20), 14839; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152014839 Received: 31 July 2023 / Revised: 6...
Read More[QUT] Australia needs a new, independent regulatory body and specific offences, penalties and remedies to curb deceptive ‘greenwashing’ marketing claims after the ACCC found the practice was rife among Australian companies… QUT law Professor Matthew Rimmer made the call in a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications Inquiry into “greenwashing … and legislative options to protect consumers”. Professor Rimmer said Australia’s current regime for regulating greenwashing was fragmented and fractured. “It is split across consumer law, competition policy, corporations law, advertising standards, and intellectual property,” he said. “Australia needs a regulatory body, with specialist knowledge, to address misleading and deceptive environmental claims. There should be proper enforcement against the scourge of greenwashing in Australia.”
Read MorePress Release, QUT Media, 18 May 2022 18th May 2022 Australia and other national governments should follow the lead of the United States and share their intellectual property on COVID-19 technology through the World Health...
Read MoreThis research event focused upon the geopolitical debate over access to essential medicines during the coronavirus public health crisis. I brought together researchers, experts and scholars working in the field of access to essential medicines — ranging through the disciplines of intellectual property, public health law, human rights, international law, and trade law.
Read More[Queensland University of Technology Press Release] Australia must join the global ‘right to repair’ movement with a holistic reform of consumer, competition and environmental law to ensure recognition of consumers’ ‘right to repair’ goods rather than having to throw them out and replace them.
Read MoreRemaking the Maker Movement QUT Faculty of Business and Law Wednesday, 3 February 2021 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Z1064, Gibson Room, Level 10, Z Block QUT Gardens Point Campus OVERVIEW This event will focus on the role of innovation...
Read MoreQUT Media, 11 November 2020 11th November 2020 A multi-stranded strategy is needed to reach the lofty goal of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (CREATE), says a chief investigator and...
Read More[Research Symposium, QUT Faculty of Law, 29 October 2020] This event focused upon copyright law and the creative industries. It brought together legal scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners; creative artists from an array of disciplines; as well as theorists of new media and digital technologies. The event considered the origins of copyright law, policy, and practice. Speakers explored their recent historical work about the foundation and evolution of copyright law and policy.
Read MoreResearch Symposium, QUT Faculty of Law, 29 July 2020 QUT Library Overview This event will consider the relationship between intellectual property and higher education in the age of the public health crisis over the coronavirus...
Read MoreMajor publishing houses including HarperCollins and Penguin are suing the non-profit Internet Archive for its National Emergency Library, set up to provide access to books during the COVID-19 shutdown. The Authors Guild has supported the publishers’ copyright action.
Read MoreWhile the Trump administration trumpets Operation Warp Speed’s search for COVID-19 vaccine, it is unwilling to collaborate with the world’s scientists who share their COVID-19 findings and have pledged to make a vaccine affordable and accessible for everyone.
Read MoreThis forum was hosted by the QUT Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program and the Australian Centre for Health Law Research in the QUT Faculty of Law to coincide with the visit of the Hon. Michael Kirby to the QUT Faculty of Law. It assessed and evaluated the recommendations of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Access to Medicines. Access to medicines is a critical issue in respect of infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, the SARS virus, Ebola, and the Zika virus. There have been a number of obstacles and barriers in respect of access to medicines — including the high prices caused by monopolies, and the absence of appropriate treatments for neglected diseases.
Read MoreAustralia’s Stop Online Piracy Act: Copyright Law, Site-Blocking, and Search Filters in an Age of Internet Censorship The Canberra Law Review (2019) Matthew Rimmer, Queensland University of Technology Abstract Relying upon...
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