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| UpdatedSupermarket giant Woolworths is ordered to pay more than $3 million in fines after the consumer watchdog took it to court over concerns about the safety of a number of products including a deep-fryer and drain cleaner.
Topics: retail, consumer-protection, courts-and-trials, food-and-beverage, australia
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A peak body for vegetable growers has defended the industry's quality assurance system and the farmers whose lettuce products have been recalled after a high incidence of salmonella cases.
Topics: vegetables, agricultural-marketing, food-processing, food-poisoning, consumer-protection, bacchus-marsh-3340, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe lithium-ion-battery system that has attracted a cult-like following and is forecast to be a game-changer is now available. But will it live up to the hype?
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, alternative-energy, solar-energy, energy, consumer-protection, australia, quakers-hill-2763
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The Treasury Secretary didn't come out and say it, but the conclusion drawn from his recent speech was obvious: governments are increasingly powerless to deliver the sort of policies that put their citizens first.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, regulation, consumer-protection
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US officials fill a Chicago warehouse with 16,000 counterfeit hoverboards over fears of battery fires, and expect their tally to increase.
Topics: transport, consumer-protection, electronics, safety, united-states
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| UpdatedThe number of West Australians falling victim to scams drops dramatically, with new figures showing financial losses have almost halved.
Topics: consumer-protection, fraud-and-corporate-crime, wa
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Fair Trading officials have issued a warning for consumers to avoid an unregistered Hunter Valley concreter.
Topics: consumer-protection, law-crime-and-justice, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedTough new requirements for degree-level qualifications could see thousands of longtime financial planners decide to quit the troubled industry.
Topics: consumer-finance, consumer-protection, banking, australia
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| UpdatedThe ABC obtains a list of 10 chiropractic clinics which are the subject of serious complaints to the health regulator.
Topics: chiropractor, alternative-medicine, health, consumer-protection, qld, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedHealth ministers are being lobbied to either sack or overhaul the Chiropractic Board of Australia over claims it failed to sanction practitioners who made false claims, such as the ability to cure asthma or stop crying in babies.
Topics: chiropractor, consumer-protection, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health-administration, australia
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| UpdatedFormer ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel warns that introducing an "effects test" will leave consumers paying more for bread and milk.
Topics: consumer-protection, retail, australia
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A Darwin electronics trader will face the Federal Court over claims it misled vulnerable patients and families at the Royal Darwin Hospital.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, consumer-protection, darwin-0800, nt
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| UpdatedThe equity firm behind electrical retailer Dick Smith's float "have a lot of answers they need to give", SA senator Nick Xenophon says, in wake of the company's collapse.
Topics: retail, government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, consumer-finance, consumer-protection, australia, sa, adelaide-5000
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The New South Wales energy watchdog says she is satisfied meter readings are occurring regularly in Wagga Wagga by Essential Energy.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, consumer-protection, regional, wagga-wagga-2650
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| UpdatedDick Smith customers who paid deposits on goods or bought gift vouchers will not have either honoured by the iconic electrical company's newly appointed receivers.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, consumer-protection, consumer-electronics, australia
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| UpdatedAs wholesale diesel prices hit rock bottom, motorists in the Northern Territory are not seeing the drop in prices passed on at the bowser.
Topics: consumer-protection, oil-and-gas, business-economics-and-finance, nt
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| UpdatedThe Australian Institute of Professional Photography is urging brides in the Hunter region to choose a nationally accredited photographer to avoid being ripped off.
Topics: consumer-protection, marriage, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedConsumer group Choice is reminding consumers that they have legal rights to return faulty products, even if store policies purport to say they cannot.
Topics: consumer-protection, retail, australia
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| UpdatedMotorists will soon have access to the same almost real-time petrol price information as retailers, under a deal brokered by the competition watchdog.
Topics: oil-and-gas, consumer-protection, australia
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The NT Seafood Council says a consumer education campaign has left consumers hungry for local catch.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, consumer-protection, small-business, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedTopics: fishing-aquaculture, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, consumer-protection, small-business, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedHumpy Doo Barramundi celebrates its biggest production week as the NT minister for fisheries and Northern Territory Seafood Council urge consumers to think local.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, consumer-protection, small-business, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAhead of Christmas, petrol and diesel margins have increased to record levels as fuel retailers profit from more steep falls in global oil prices.
Topics: oil-and-gas, consumer-protection, australia
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| UpdatedAustralian product safety authorities are warning the lure of gliding through the water like a mermaid could become a deadly Christmas gift for young children.
Topics: lifestyle-and-leisure, children, children---preschoolers, retail, consumer-protection, australia
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| UpdatedThe consumer watchdog launches court action against Acquire Learning, the private training brokerage company chaired by former AFL head Andrew Demetriou, over alleged false and misleading behaviour.
Topics: consumer-protection, business-economics-and-finance, education, australia, vic