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Tasmania's biggest salmon producer is set to lose its key sustainability certificate and there are fears for the local tourism industry over the poor health of Macquarie Harbour on the state's west coast.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, regulation, tas
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| UpdatedThe governor of the Reserve Bank backs the Government's campaign to lower the corporate tax rate, warning Australia needs to remain internationally competitive.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, economic-trends, banking, money-and-monetary-policy, multinationals, regulation, australia
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| UpdatedThe nation's peak body for AIDS organisations is calling on the Therapeutic Goods Administration to fast-track the national approval of HIV self-testing devices.
Topics: aids-and-hiv, sexual-health, regulation, australia
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| UpdatedCabcharge announces write-offs totalling $28.6 million in a statement released to the ASX.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, consumer-finance, economic-trends, transport, regulation, australia
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| UpdatedDonald Trump makes financial deregulation an early priority of his presidency, but what does the Dodd-Frank Act do and what changes are likely to happen to US banking?
Topics: banking, regulation, consumer-protection, consumer-finance, donald-trump, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedDonald Trump's executive order to investigate rolling back additional post-financial crisis banking regulation has markets and analysts eyeing the prospect of bigger bank profits.
Topics: banking, regulation, donald-trump, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedLess than two weeks into Donald Trump's presidency, markets and business leaders around the world have been blindsided by the pace of change.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, consumer-finance, economic-trends, markets, currency, stockmarket, multinationals, regulation, agreements-and-treaties, trade, united-states, australia
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The United States President's travel restrictions sparks concern among global investors overnight, resulting in Wall Street's worst session this year.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, markets, currency, futures, stockmarket, regulation, united-states, australia
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| UpdatedA small internet provider helping to end the data drought in regional Queensland says it could soon be outbid by big telcos on digital spectrum access due to a proposed rule change by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
Topics: telecommunications, activism-and-lobbying, regulation, federal-government, rural, community-development, regional-development, dalby-4405, qld, bowenville-4404, australia, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedMore Victorian real estate agents are caught by a taskforce targeting the widespread practice of underquoting property values to entice prospective buyers.
Topics: housing-industry, consumer-protection, regulation, fraud-and-corporate-crime, australia, vic
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The devastating human cost of the Samarco dam disaster in Brazil will not be quickly resolved, despite the prospect of BHP Billiton and Vale settling a multi-billion dollar civil claim, according to a special United Nations adviser.
Topics: company-news, mining-industry, regulation, multinationals, fraud-and-corporate-crime, brazil, australia
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| UpdatedComplaints about electronics and whitegoods accounted for more than a quarter of the 20,000-plus grievances shoppers submitted to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in 2016.
Topics: retail, consumer-finance, consumer-protection, regulation, australia
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| UpdatedThe corporate regulator is investigating law firm Slater and Gordon over whether it deliberately falsified or manipulated its financial records and accounts.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, corporate-governance, stockmarket, regulation, multinationals, australia
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An estimated 2 million Australian workers are being forced to take their annual leave over the Christmas, with Gen Y forced to take leave more than any other generation.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, consumer-protection, corporate-governance, regulation, small-business, australia
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Village Roadshow's theme parks, Warner Bros Movie World, Sea World and Wet'n'Wild get a clean bill of health by Queensland Government safety inspectors, the company's chief executive says.
Topics: accidents---other, regulation, community-and-society, government-and-politics, upper-coomera-4209, qld, australia, coomera-4209
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Sydney is only behind Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles in terms of Airbnb user numbers, even as the company manoeuvers through government regulation that bans homeowners from leasing their property on the site in several areas.
Topics: company-news, business-economics-and-finance, consumer-protection, consumer-finance, tourism, regulation, multinationals, government-and-politics, local-government, lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, sydney-2000, australia
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| UpdatedThe union representing security guards says it has seen an increase in its members being treated poorly by employers over the past 18 months, as fierce competition to win contracts puts pressure on wages.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, industrial-relations, regulation, small-business, australia
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Tax dodging by Australian-based multinationals through 15 of the worst corporate tax havens cost Australia up to $4.8 billion in 2014, according to Oxfam.
Topics: multinationals, globalisation---economy, regulation, business-economics-and-finance, company-news, economic-trends, trade, australia
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A new report finds that corporations have launched 50 lawsuits, worth at least $US31 billion, using secret international arbitration tribunals against 11 countries in the Asian region.
Topics: trade, agreements-and-treaties, multinationals, regulation, regional-development, business-economics-and-finance, asia, australia
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| UpdatedThe competition watchdog says it will not oppose private equity firm Quadrant Fund 5's proposed acquisition of Fitness First Asia Pacific, which operates around 60 gyms in Australia.
Topics: company-news, takeovers, regulation, exercise-and-fitness, consumer-protection, australia
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The head of Australia's corporate watchdog warns of a large deficit of trust in Australia's financial institutions and says new computer technology is making it harder to get away with corporate crimes.
Topics: regulation, consumer-protection, consumer-finance, banking, insurance, australia
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| UpdatedThe regulator enforced squeeze on residential property investment is continuing to bite, with new loan approvals slumping 16 per cent from a year ago.
Topics: housing-industry, banking, consumer-finance, regulation, australia
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| UpdatedThe competition watchdog denies permission for three of the big four banks to collectively bargain with Apple over use of its electronic payment system.
Topics: banking, consumer-finance, regulation, australia
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government is planning to tighten laws around small consumer loans and leases in an attempt to prevent exploitative practices.
Topics: consumer-finance, consumer-protection, regulation, small-business, australia
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Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sébastien Jacques says the mining industry must win back the trust of local communities in the wake of the scandal over consultancy payments in Africa.
Topics: company-news, business-economics-and-finance, mining-industry, markets, multinationals, regulation, regional-development, australia