CHOICE welcomes the passing of the historic financial advice reform bill and congratulates Minister Shorten and the government for putting an end to secret payments that have distorted advice and eroded consumers’ hard earned savings.
Read More Consumers now in the driver’s seat when seeking financial advice
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The ACCC Chairman this week launched the consumer guide Consumers and carbon price claims. The guide provides consumer information about carbon price claims, what the ACCC can do, how consumers can take action to protect their rights and how to make a complaint.
Read More Consumers and carbon price claims
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An overview of ASIC news and media releases relevant to consumer financial services from December to March 2012. MoneySmart updates, consumer warnings and enforcement activity are all covered.
Read More ASIC overview December – March 2012
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The Standards Australia Technical Committee CS-037 Garden Soils and Potting Mixes has been working over the past few years revising the standard recently published in its 4th edition as AS 4454-2012 Composts, soil conditioners and mulches.
Read More Ensuring the safety of composts, soil conditioners and mulches
National Consumer Fraud Week 2012 is all about raising awareness of scam delivery methods so that you can identify and slam a scam at the point of contact.
Read More National Consumer Fraud Week 19 – 25 March
In 1996 CFA commissioned A History of the Australian Consumer Movement. It was a 40 page booklet edited by Fiona Marsden summarising a longer academic paper by Jane Brown. Other sources for history of the Australian consumer movement include A McLeod’s Abundance, Buying and Selling in Postwar Australia with a forward by Allan Fels. It is based on…
Read More From the archives: a history of the Australian consumer movement to 1996
Consumer advocate Jenni Mack documents the highs and lows of 150 years of consumer activism, and considers where to next for consumer advocacy.
Read More 50 years of consumer rights – how far have we come?
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ASIC has announced that people who migrated to Australia on humanitarian grounds now have access to multilingual resources to help them learn about Australia’s financial system.
Read More ASIC launches multilingual financial resources
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On World Consumer Rights Day 2012, the Consumers Federation of Australia calls on the Commonwealth, State and Territory governments make consumer rights front and centre in government policy development by implementing the Productivity Commission’s recommendations for consumer advocacy and research.
Read More Government must listen to consumer voices
Researchers from UNSW’s Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre have launched a report revealing a complex, confusing and inconsistent web of Codes of Conduct which could cover an online transaction, and questions whether this model works to protect consumers in the new environment.
Read More Report finds online consumers and providers ‘Drowning in Codes of Conduct’
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Submissions to the a government review of Gift Cards emphasise the need for longer expiry dates, protection where retailers become insolvent and provision for change up to $10.
Read More Gift cards: need for reform say consumer groups
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Consumers need longer expiry dates, protection where retailers become insolvent and provision for change up to $10.
Read More Gift card reform needed: consumer groups
