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Media release: Report into consumer credit insurance exposes dirty tactics

October 19, 2011

The 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...

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Media release: Payday lending practices challenged in court

October 17, 2011

The lending practices of Australian’s biggest payday lender, Cash Converters, are being challenged in proceedings issued in the Victorian Magistrates Court....

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Media release: New website delivers the cold hard and sad facts about payday lending

September 21, 2011

A 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...

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Media release: Unfair process leading to higher electricity prices

September 12, 2011

Two prominent consumer advocacy groups are calling for the federal government to abolish the current process of appeal for electricity distribution pricing determinations. ...

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Submission: Review of Debt Agreements Under the Bankruptcy Act 1966

September 2, 2011

Consumer Action has provided a submission to this review of debt agreements undertaken by the Attorney-General's Department....

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Submission: Australian Energy Market Commission’s Power of Choice Review, Issues Paper

August 30, 2011

This 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'....

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Media release: Government reforms offer a branch to consumers stuck in high cost short term lending quicksand

August 25, 2011

Consumer 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....

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Media release: Complex energy contracts are confusing consumers and stifling choice

August 18, 2011

Energy retail contracts have been put under the microscope in a report just released by the Consumer Action Law Centre....

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Media release: Jobseekers should know that unpaid work is unlawful

August 5, 2011

Two leading community legal centres have joined forces to warn jobseekers about the practices of some recruitment and job placement agencies that are directing clients into unpaid trial work, using...

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Media release: ASIC grants licence to ‘misleading, deceptive and unconscionable’ trader

July 22, 2011

In a move that has disappointed Consumer Action, ASIC has granted a consumer credit licence to a company whose conduct has been found to be misleading, deceptive and unconscionable....

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