Subscription traps in digital markets: While last year’s priorities focused on misleading or deceptive advertising in the digital economy, this year the ACCC is prioritising manipulative and false ...
On 10 February 2026, Treasury released a consultation paper, Enhancing oversight and governance of managed investment schemes ...
On 9 February 2026, Treasury announced a consultation on draft laws proposed to amend the Australian Consumer Law ( ACL) to strengthen consumer protection by introducing targeted reforms on ...
In 2026, Australia faces renewed pressure by the Trump administration to spend more on its own defence. Current spending hovers at approximately 2% of Australia's GDP ($59 billion for 2025-26), with ...
In late 2025, the Federal Court delivered a landmark decision ordering Fewstone Pty Ltd, trading as City Beach, to pay $14 million in penalties for breaches of mandatory button battery safety and ...
On 4 February 2026, the Administrative Review Tribunal set aside an earlier determination, made by the Privacy Commissioner, that Bunnings had contravened the Australian Privacy Principles ( APPs) set ...
A wide-ranging parliamentary Inquiry into the development and regulation of data centres across New South Wales is underway, with a final report from the NSW Legislative Council Public Accountability ...
The reform agenda for private credit has crossed a threshold. Within the space of a few weeks in late 2025, ASIC delivered three things it had been telegraphing since September: a rewritten conflicts ...
The task facing the WA public sector in readying itself for the new PRIS laws is a considerable one, particularly given the retrospectivity of some of the IPPs. For the first time, the WA public ...
The Federal Court's ground-breaking decision to allow a potential claim of negligence to proceed against the Commissioner of Taxation is a novel development (for novel circumstances) that is a first ...