‘We Buy Houses’ puts consumers at risk
Consumer Action says rent to buy schemes may end up hurting both the buyer and seller
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One step closer to fixing the energy system
Senate’s final report has big implications for affordable energy.
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ACCC rejects Egg Corp’s free range farce
CHOICE calls for official national free-range standard
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Reforms ahead for Australia’s broken electricity sector
Senate moves to ease electricity price burden, but is it decisive?
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Swimming pools: Standards enhance child safety
Most private swimming pools drownings involve children under five
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ACCC enforcement work for October
Eternal Beauty to pay penalties and costs of $100,000 for resale price maintenance The Federal Court in Melbourne has imposed penalties of $90,000 against Eternal Beauty Products Pty Ltd (Eternal Beauty) and its Director, Penny Rider, a wholesaler and retailer of skin care products and its only Australian Director, for engaging in resale price maintenance.…
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Debt collector ACM collects ASIC sting
Court finds ACM Group’s misleading conduct was ‘systemic’; issue raised by Consumer Action
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Homeopathy gets a well deserved shonky
Pharmacology academic queries value of ‘medicine’ with minute amount of … strychnine
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Which is more Shonky: the water wasting lemon or the Cabcharge gouge?
CHOICE’s 2012 Shonky Awards expose 8 consumer lemons
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Will mobile phone complaints stop rising anytime soon?
Mobile problems now make up 2/3 of the complaints received by the TIO
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Business, community, consumer groups together for energy reform
United fight against rising electricity costs
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