The Queensland Premier Tells Queenslanders on Television After the Queensland

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 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'.