The Queensland Premier Tells Queenslanders on Television After the Queensland

question 22

Multiple Choice

The Queensland Premier tells Queenslanders on television after the Queensland Cultural Centre (QCC) is destroyed during a performance of Benjamin Keller's Opera (in which in the phantom reveals himself to be a suicide bomber) that the Cultural Centre can be rebuilt in three months.This comment is untrue.Experts, politicians and lay-people everywhere agree that the Centre cannot conceivably be rebuilt for at least 5 years.Businesses near the QCC suffer economic loss as a result of the Premier's misrepresentation.Has s 18 of the Australian Consumer Law been contravened?

• A)Yes, because the Premier told a lie.
• B)Yes, because the Premier has not engaged in 'conduct'.
• C)No, because the Premier's words were not 'misleading and deceptive'.
• D)No, because the Premier's speech was not 'in trade or commence'.

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Definitions:

Acquisition

In learning theory, the process by which a new behavior is learned or a new association is formed, often discussed in the context of classical and operant conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus.

Extinction

The process by which a species, genus, or family of organisms becomes extinct, no longer existing and living in the world.

Spontaneous Recovery

The rebirth of an extinguished response after a break, without the need for relearning.