The Australian Companies Institute (Ausbuy) is a not-for-profit; non-political organisation that encourages Australians to support Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n owned and made products and services, so that the jobs and profits stay in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 and the decisions are made by Australians.

History and background

Ausbuy was founded in 1991 by Harry Wallace as a result of his family business of 120 years closing.

Objectives

Ausbuy’s aims to create public awareness of and promote products that are grown, made and owned by Australian companies.

• Lobbies governments on such issues as labelling laws, foreign takeovers of Australian companies and competition issues.
• Publishes the Ausbuy Guide which is designed to enable the Australian public to identify and support the product and services offered by Australian owned companies.
• A logo
  Logo
  A logo is a graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition...
  
  which it licenses to its members so that they can differentiate their products and allow the consumer to identify them as being provided by Australian owned companies.
• It arranges promotions with supermarkets to assist the members to sell their products.
• It publishes a newsletter.

External links

• Ausbuy
• http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/763333?&#details "Buy Australian made" / Wolfgang Chr. Fischer and Peter Byron
• http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4103499 Country of Origin : A law and economics approach to the concept of Made in Australia / Wolfgang Chr. Fisher, Kenneth K. Mwenda