Wholesaler Misled Buyers With Fake Indigenous Australian Art, Court Finds

Wholesaler Misled Buyers With Fake Indigenous Australian Art, Court Finds
Sample of artwork sold by Birubi Art, a wholesaler of Australian souvenir and Australiana products based in Kippa-Ring, Queensland. ACCC
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A wholesaler in Australia, Birubi Art Pty Ltd (Birubi), has been found guilty of misleading consumers with fake ‘indigenous Australian’ products.

The Australian Federal Court found that Birubi had breached Australian Consumer Law by misrepresenting their products, made in Indonesia, as having been hand-painted by Australian Aboriginal people in Australia.