A point about Australian Standards:
I think the company / organisation has a marketing structure that really sucks - because rather than defining the topic in large blocks, and selling them thus at a fair price, they split the subject into every single fragment that they possibly can and charge as much as they can for each piece.
I have compared the AS marketing practices with several overseas organisations that perform a similar function and the AS marketing practices are just appalling.
ie. This is a pretend example.
"The AS for wooden furniture": No....... they do not sell it - like the DOT or BS or EU or US standards organisations do for say $80 - which contains all of the following:
But the Australian Standard do sell the same "standard" just like this:
AS for wooden chairs (only) $388
AS for gluing of wooden chairs $145
AS for screwing wooden chairs $255
AS for wooden chair weight limits $123
AS for stress testing wooden chairs $255
AS for wooden chair timbers $66
AS for wooden chair labeling $129
AS for wooden chair standards $599
AS for the testing or imported wooden chairs $699
AS for wooden chair seats $210
AS for wooden chair backs $165
AS for wooden chair legs.. $188
add infinitum.
I think the AS institute is good at gouging and leeching and screwing people for everything they can at every step of the way - and I don't like their practices at all.
They smack of monopolistic practices much like Telstra.
