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While improved transparency has lowered costs for Australian consumers who send money overseas, consumers are still missing out on over $200 million in potential savings, according to the competition regulator, the ACCC.

The ACCC has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against Clorox Australia Pty Ltd, the manufacturer of GLAD-branded kitchen and garbage bags, for allegedly making false or misleading representations that certain kitchen and garbage bags were partly made of recycled ‘ocean plastic’, in breach of the Australian Consumer Law.

The Federal Government’s announcement that it will move to strengthen Australia’s merger laws, bringing Australia into line with most other developed economies, will benefit Australian consumers and businesses of all sizes, as well as the wider economy, according to the head of the competition watchdog, the ACCC.

Australia’s east coast gas market is expected to have a six petajoule (PJ) surplus in the third quarter of 2024, even if the three LNG producers export all their uncontracted gas, according to the March 2024 interim gas inquiry report by the competition watchdog, the ACCC.

Australia’s competition regulator, the ACCC and its Vietnamese counterpart, the Viet Nam Competition Commission (VCC), have committed to even closer collaboration in securing “strong regulatory and economic outcomes” by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

Consumer and competition issues in the supermarket sector and essential services including electricity and financial services are among the compliance and enforcement priorities for the year ahead, according to the competition watchdog, the ACCC.

The continued expansion of Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft into emerging technologies and other markets demonstrates the critical need for regulatory reform, according to Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC.

Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC, has called on consumers, businesses and interested stakeholders to provide submissions about data broker services in Australia, as part of its five-year digital platform services inquiry.

The competition watchdog, the ACCC, has vowed to continue to support reforms to protect consumers and businesses following a new report into social media services which has highlighted a range of harms occurring across the services.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is calling on banks, bank customers and other interested stakeholders to share their views on competition and consumer issues affecting retail deposit products.

The price and availability of childcare in Australia is under scrutiny by the competition watchdog, the ACCC, as part of its year-long inquiry into the childcare services sector.

Scams continue to wreak tremendous personal and financial damage on consumers and the Australian economy, warned ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb when unveiling the ACCC’S annual compliance and enforcement priorities for 2023-24.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has this week started a sweep to identify misleading testimonials and endorsements by social media influencers.

The competition watchdog the ACCC has commenced its formal consideration of ANZ Banking Group’s proposed acquisition of the banking arm of Suncorp.

Australia’s competition watchdog, the  Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), has called for new competition and consumer laws for digital platforms and recommended a range of new measures to address harms from the platforms to Australian consumers, small businesses and competition.

Waste company Bingo Industries has pleaded guilty to criminal cartel offences relating to price fixing for demolition waste services in Sydney.

The state of competition for social media services and consumer concerns with the services in Australia is to come under scrutiny by the competition watchdog the ACCC as part of its Digital Platform Services inquiry.

The Australian Federal Court has fined Google $60 million for misleading consumers about collection and use of personal data on Android phones between January 2017 and December 2018.

The financial and emotional devastation caused by scams every year in Australia can be reduced if government, consumer groups and the private sector work together to make Australia a much harder target for scammers, according to ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb.

Samsung Electronics Australia has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay $14 million in penalties after it admitted misleading consumers about the suitability of various Samsung Galaxy phones to be submerged in pool or sea water.