designed in Australia is not the same thing as made in Australia

Unless it says something like this it's likely made offshore

last week i purchased a box of [.....] for the store. was very excited about adding the product to the store and had lots of pics taken of the product, both on its own and with other products to make up some nice new gift boxes....anyway....

i was doing some last minute reading about the product on the company's website so i could put some info on our store website. then it dawned on me, nowhere had i read 'Australian-made', so i had a quick trawl of the site, nothing. had a slightly stressed, but more in-depth trawl, as well as checking out the written material that had arrived...nothing...lots of 'designed in Melbourne' wording but nothing to tell me where its made...

India... oh no.

so out of the store and back to the company. totally my fault, the company never told me it was Australian-made...i never asked....i just assumed, i suppose i was seeing 'designed in Melbourne' everywhere that i never thought to question where the product was made...

so to ensure you are purchasing quality Australian-made ....

1. Ask/email/telephone the company 'is your product made in Australia' (not designed, idea conceived, sold, bought into, etc, etc....)

2. if the labelling says that its 'designed in Australia' you can generally assume correctly that its made in China, or India, or somewhere the labour costs are cheap