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This month’s newsletter highlights the rising issue of payday lending including CCLSWA’s participation in the National Day of Action at Parliament House in Canberra. You
In December 2016 the Consumers Federation of Australia (CFA) made a submission to the Productivity Commission declaring its strong support for the commission’s findings that
A former Westpac banker has been jailed after submitting loan applications totaling more than $2.5 million when he knew they contained false information and documents.
Reckitt Benckiser, the maker of Nurofen, has been fined $6M million for misleading consumers. In 2015, the Federal Court of Australia found that Reckitt Benckiser
On 20 January 2017 CCLSWA Principal Solicitor Gemma Mitchell and Centre Support Officer Allison Sampson attended the Western Australian Council of Social Services (WACOSS) sector
On 20 January 2017, Principal Solicitor Gemma Mitchell and solicitors Roberta Grealish, Prachi Aggarwal and Mitchell Coles attended the Piddington Society’s Meet the Grads. The
On 23 January 2017 Tim Hammond MP, Federal Member for Perth, and former chairperson of the CCLSWA management committee, visited CCLSWA. Mr Hammond had visited
On the 8th of December 2016 Consumer Protection’s Aboriginal Community Education Officers Teena Forrest-Benavides and Merinda Wills visited CCLSWA. Teena and Merinda work with Aboriginal
This month’s newsletter is about mistaken internet payments. See how a simple typo caused our client to worry that they had worry they had lost their
In 2015 Australian’s lost $22,587,162 to dating and romance scams.* *ACCC ScamWatch Data