July, 2012 - Consumer Action Law Centre

Consumer Affairs Victoria issues warning about maths tutoring software

Consumer Affairs Victoria says parents of school children should be wary about aggressive selling methods of maths tutorial software. Some of these programs cost nearly $8000 and are marketed by sale...

Media release: Do Not Knock campaign lodges 100 door-to-door selling complaints with ACCC

Over 100 complaints about door-to-door salespeople have now been lodged with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) since the national Do Not Knock campaign was launched in November...

Submission: Review of grocery unit pricing

Consumer Action believes unit pricing is, and will continue to be, an appropriate regulatory mechanism and appears to create a number of direct and indirect benefits to consumers and competition, at r...

Submission: Reforming Contract Law

This submission in response to the Commonwealth Government's discussion paper on the scope to reform Australian contract law. The submission: highlights the significance of consumer contracting (wh...

Policy report: The pursuit of the impossible, consumer experience with external collection of retail energy debts

A new report from the Consumer Action Law Centre gives an insight into the experiences of a number of Victorian energy consumers who had their energy debts passed onto external debt collectors. The pu...

July 2012

Home help has strings attached The Age, 25 July 2012, John Kavanagh Unpaid power bills going up The Age, 17 July 2012, Rachel Wells Avoid the stress zone on your home loan Sydney Morning Hera...

Media release: New report offers a snapshot of debt collection practices in the Victorian energy sector

Submission: Inquiry into the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Bill 2012

The Consumer Action Law Centre (Consumer Action) welcomes the opportunity to comment on Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Bill 2012. Our submission concerns the changes relating to cre...

Media release: Time to build new consumer protections from the bottom up

In its response to a Victorian Government consultation paper, Consumer Action urged the Government to take decisive action, arguing small reforms around the edges would do little to help consumers see...

Submission: Submission to the Victorian Government’s consultation on the domestic building consumer protection framework

Broadly, this submission: argues that the nature of domestic building transactions mean that specialised and strengthened consumer protections are required; recommends that the entire consumer prot...

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Consumer Affairs Victoria issues warning about maths tutoring software

Media release: Do Not Knock campaign lodges 100 door-to-door selling complaints with ACCC

Submission: Review of grocery unit pricing

Submission: Reforming Contract Law

Policy report: The pursuit of the impossible, consumer experience with external collection of retail energy debts

July 2012

Media release: New report offers a snapshot of debt collection practices in the Victorian energy sector

Submission: Inquiry into the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Bill 2012

Media release: Time to build new consumer protections from the bottom up

Submission: Submission to the Victorian Government’s consultation on the domestic building consumer protection framework

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