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ASIC and the Territory Insurance Office (TIO) have launched a joint Indigenous financial literacy strategy involving audio posters with messages about ATM fees in 12 Aboriginal languages.
Read More ASIC and TIO launch Indigenous audio posters
CFA Member CHOICE is calling for proposed rules that would restrict ‘fat free’ and ‘% fat free’ claims on food packaging to be extended to cover all claims about fat content.
Read More Big fat loophole for food claims
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A wide variety of activities took place in more than 60 countries for World Consumer Rights Day. Read about some of the highlights.
Read More Consumers International: Six highlights from World Consumer Rights Day
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CFA member, the Consumer Action Law Centre has challenged Australia’s energy retailers to put an end to door-to-door energy sales.
Read More Energy retailers urged to end to door-to-door sales
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The Full Federal Court has declared that Google, by publishing the four advertisements on result pages of the Google Australia website, engaged in conduct that was misleading or deceptive, or likely to mislead or deceive, in breach of section 52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974*. The Court unanimously upheld the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s…
Read More Google misleading ads: ACCC wins appeal
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a controversial, secretly negotiated, trade agreement designed to provide for stronger enforcement of intellectual property rights. But there has been no independent analysis of the impact of the treaty in Australia upon economics, human rights or health care.
Read More Opening Pandora’s box: secret treaty threatens human rights
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Button batteries found in remote controls and other household electronic devices are a severe and little known risk for young children, a joint campaign by Energizer, Kidsafe, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned.
Read More Button batteries: A little known risk
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The report outlines categories of gatekeepers against whom ASIC has taken action including financial advisers, responsible entities, credit licensees, market participants, directors, company officers, insolvency practitioners and auditors. It includes detailed statistics over a six month period.
Read More ASIC releases first six-monthly enforcement report
Is the Commonwealth about to further weaken payday lending laws under pressure from industry? Gerard Brody of Consumer Action Law Centre reviews the arguments. He says interest rates of 288% will not put any pressure on the payday industry to change their harmful practices.
Read More Government to backflip on payday lending law reforms?
The Department of Health and Ageing has released the Proposals for Regulations and Rules (proposals paper) for the eHealth records program.
Read More eHealth proposals paper released
ASIC has released the full findings of ‘shadow shopping’ research which examined financial advice given to people to help them plan for retirement.
Read More ASIC releases full report on retirement advice shadow shopping research
Dr Ken Harvey has been chosen as Choice’s consumer champion for his work on consumer rights and therapeutic goods, especially “complementary” medicines.
Read More Consumer champion’s long fight for better use of medicines
