Australian telecommunication providers who are caught breaching industry codes will no longer be warned before being slapped with new multi-million dollar fines.
Cheyanne Enciso
Woolworths boss Amanda Bardwell is set to have her hands full in 2025 trying to execute a turnaround plan for the embattled grocer, experts say, following a string of scandals last year.
Australia’s corporate watchdog is suing the local arm of global crypto giant Binance after more than 500 retail clients were “denied important consumer protections”.
The Australian Information Commissioner has dumped civil penalty proceedings against Meta over the Cambridge Analytica scandal after the owner of Facebook agreed to a $50 million settlement.
Daniel Newell
Australia’s consumer watchdog is threatening investigations into retailers who cashed in on the Black Friday shopping frenzy by luring shoppers with dodgy promises about their discounts.
The company behind Tony Galati’s Spudshed has paid more than $60,000 in fines after being hit with four infringements from the competition watchdog for allegedly breaching the mandatory horticulture code.
The regulator says the bank lacked the protection systems to detect unauthorised transactions and breached its obligations to investigate suspect withdrawals and report back to affected customers.
Sean Smith
New Zealand’s competition watchdog has filed criminal charges against Woolworths and local rival Pak’nSave over alleged inaccurate pricing and misleading specials.
West Australians using the myGov service have been warned to remain alert following a sharp rise in identity theft, with the data pinched being used to redirect pension payments to scammers’ accounts.
Nick Bruining
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Jeff Pollard is no fool when it comes to online safety. But his ordeal proves even the security-savvy can get caught out. Here’s how the scammers did it and why you need to remain vigilant.
ASIC condemns complaints handling at insurance companies amid surge in customers crying foul about their treatment.
Neale Prior
Coles and Woolworths have continued their fall from grace to now be among the nation’s top three most distrusted brands.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission plans a softly, softly approach as it tightens regulation of cryptocurrency and industry players.
Webjet is being sued by the consumer watchdog, which alleges the travel comparison site duped customers for five years by failing to include all costs when plugging the price of its cheapest airfares.
Chief executive Leah Weckert has laid praise on one of its biggest competitors, spruiking their ‘unique products’ as both Coles and Woolworths face an ACCC enquiry.
Jackson Hewett
Bunnings has released a compilation of CCTV footage highlighting some of the violent attacks on its staff over several years as it defends the use of facial recognition technology. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT.
The Privacy Commissioner found a trial collected individuals’ sensitive information without consent, failed to take reasonable steps to notify individuals that their personal information was being collected.
Woolworths boss Amanda Bardwell has refused to give a direct answer when questioned about its similarity in pricing with rival Coles.
A leading analyst has taken a negative stance against Coles and Woolworths as the supermarket giants prepare to be put under the spotlight at a probe into the highly-scrutinised sector.
Coles and Woolworths say they will defend a new class action relating to fake discount allegations from the competition watchdog.
Coles and Woolworths have been slugged with a new class action following allegations by the competition regulator that the supermarkets engaged in misleading discounting.
IGA’s parent company Metcash believes the willingness of households to shop around for bargains amid higher living costs has prompted more competition in the supermarket sector.
Australia’s top corporate cop Joe Longo is pushing for reform of the country’s tangle of company and finance services laws, warning of unnecessary burdens and failures to protect consumers.
