Consumer Action has welcomed the Federal Government’s ban on credit providers making unsolicited credit card limit increase offers to customers, but believes that ambiguity in the regulations governing the ban...
Read MoreConsumer Action has taken its concerns about outdated and potentially misleading information on eBay.com.au to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission after eBay International AG failed to respond to the...
Read MoreThe Consumer Action Law Centre has responded to ASIC’s report into consumer credit insurance, by saying that it confirms two of its long held suspicions; that many lenders selling CCI...
Read MoreThe lending practices of Australian’s biggest payday lender, Cash Converters, are being challenged in proceedings issued in the Victorian Magistrates Court....
Read MoreA coalition of consumer and financial counselling organisations has launched a new website to ensure the hard truths are heard in the debate about the future of short term high...
Read MoreTwo prominent consumer advocacy groups are calling for the federal government to abolish the current process of appeal for electricity distribution pricing determinations. ...
Read MoreConsumer Action has provided a submission to this review of debt agreements undertaken by the Attorney-General's Department....
Read MoreThis submission responds to the Issues Paper released by the Australian Energy Market Commission on its demand side participation (stage 3) review, dubbed 'Power of Choice'....
Read MoreConsumer Action has welcomed the Federal Government’s proposed cap on the amounts lenders of high cost short term loans (often referred to as 'payday loans') can recover from consumers....
Read MoreEnergy retail contracts have been put under the microscope in a report just released by the Consumer Action Law Centre....
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