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Thursday, 12 December 2024 11:15
Spotless, Ventia and senior executives in Court for alleged price fixing cartel for services at Defence bases
Gordon Peters
The competition watchdog the ACCC has started civil cartel proceedings in the Federal Court against two companies - Spotless Facility Services Pty Ltd (a subsidiary…
Published in
Technology Regulation
Tagged under
- ACCC
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
- Competition watchdog
- civil cartel proceedings
- Federal Court
- Spotless Facility Services Pty Ltd
- Ventia Australia Pty Ltd
- alleged price fixing
- estate maintenance and operation services
- Department of Defence
- Defence
- Australian Defence Force (ADF) bases
- ACCC Chair
- Gina CassGottlieb
- civil penalties
With the passing of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Mergers and Acquisitions Reform) Bill 2024 by the Australian Parliament yesterday, the competition watchdog, the ACCC says…
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Technology Regulation
Tagged under
- ACCC
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
- Gina CassGottlieb
- merger law
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Mergers and Acquisitions Reform) Bill 2024
- australian parliament
- Competition watchdog
- Australia's merger regime
- key stakeholders
- draft guidelines
- Consultation
- proposed acquisitions
- historic new merger laws
- mandatory notification system
Wednesday, 27 November 2024 14:37
Systemic breaches of consumer law lead to $1.5million fine for Kiwibank
Gordon Peters
New Zealand state-owned bank and financial services provider Kiwibank has been fined $1.5million after pleading guilty to systemic and long-running breaches of the Fair Trading…
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Technology Regulation
Monday, 25 November 2024 12:00
New auDA website launched with ‘improved user experience’
Gordon Peters
The administrator of the .au domain name system (DNS), auDA has launched of its new website, providing an “enhanced user experience” and helping users find…
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Technology Regulation
Monday, 18 November 2024 16:45
ACMA action on scams, spam and telemarketing: July to September 2024: report
Gordon Peters
Unsolicited communications – such as commercial email and SMS spam, scams and telemarketing – are a problem for many Australians and the communication and media…
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Technology Regulation
Tagged under
- ACMA
- Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
- compliance priorities
- 2024–25 financial year
- unsolicited communications
- Scams
- commercial email
- SMS spam
- Telemarketing
- misleading spam messages
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)
- Australia’s spam laws
- SMS impersonation scams
- telcos
- enforcing rules
Friday, 15 November 2024 14:26
Industry leaders call for more robust ICT procurement practices in Australia
Gordon Peters
New research finds Government ICT procurement policy must be urgently reformed, as Australia has fallen out of step with international practice when it comes to…
Published in
Government Tech Policy
Tagged under
- industry leaders
- ICT procurement practices
- Australia
- Government ICT procurement policy
- urgently reformed
- international practice
- Insight Economics
- Reforms
- Albanese Government
- ICT industries
- TechnologyOne
- Vault Cloud
- Macquarie Technology Group
- Agile Digital
- Drone Shield
- Gilmour Space
- Psithur
- Australian Computer Society
Wednesday, 13 November 2024 16:41
ACCC consults on service quality record keeping rule for non-NBN providers
Gordon Peters
The competition watchdog, the ACCC, has published a consultation paper on the development of a record keeping rule for non-NBN superfast broadband providers regarding service…
Published in
Technology Regulation
Tagged under
- ACCC
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
- Record Keeping Rules (RKRs)
- Service quality
- nonNBN providers
- consultation paper
- superfast broadband providers
- National Broadband Network NBN
- data series
- greater transparency
- Comparison
- quality and performance
- networks
- stakeholders’ views
- network operators
- retain records
Tuesday, 12 November 2024 12:18
Commerce Commission ‘secures $200k penalty’ against lender charging up to 182.5% interest
Gordon Peters
Eagle M.A.N Group Limited - trading as Eagle MAN - has been ordered to pay a pecuniary penalty of $200,000 in the Christchurch High Court…
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Technology Regulation
Monday, 11 November 2024 15:29
AMTA welcomes proposed reforms to the telecommunications powers and immunities framework
Gordon Peters
The peak national body representing Australia’s mobile telecommunications industry, the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) has welcomed the release of draft reforms to the Commonwealth…
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Technology Regulation
Monday, 11 November 2024 09:21
Tech Council launches new industry standards platform to help improve diversity in tech
Gordon Peters
Framework to support tech companies to improve equity, diversity and inclusion practices The Tech Council of Australia (TCA), in partnership with Project F, has unveiled…
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Technology Regulation
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