MIL-OSI Australia: Seednet to pay $1m penalty for misleading barley performance claims
Source: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission The Federal Court has ordered Landmark Operations Limited (trading as Seednet) to pay a $1 million penalty for making false, misleading and deceptive claims in a fact sheet for its barley variety known as ‘Compass’. From at least December 2014 to December 2016, Seednet told farmers that Compass barley […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Australia: NBN wholesale service standards inquiry enters next phase
Source: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission The second phase of the ACCC’s NBN wholesale service standards inquiry will consider whether regulation is needed to improve customer experience. NBN wholesale service standards are a key part of the commercial arrangements between NBN Co and retail service providers that affect the services to NBN customers. A discussion […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Australia: Former Murray Goulburn MD Gary Helou to pay $200,000 penalty
Source: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission The Federal Court has ordered former Murray Goulburn Co-operative Managing Director Gary Helou to pay $200,000 in penalties for being knowingly concerned in Murray Goulburn’s false or misleading claims about the farmgate milk price it expected to pay dairy farmers during the 2015-16 milk season. “The penalty imposed against Mr […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Australia: New analysis on petrol price cycles shows how motorists can save money
Source: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Petrol price cycles infuriate drivers but a new report out today explains how they work and ways that drivers in Australia’s five largest cities (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth) can save money by buying petrol at the bottom of the price cycle. The ACCC’s Report on petrol price […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Australia: Internet provider Activ8me in court for alleged misleading advertisements
Source: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission The ACCC has instituted proceedings against internet provider Australian Private Networks Pty Ltd (trading as Activ8me) in the Federal Court for allegedly making false or misleading representations when advertising its internet services. The ACCC alleges that, between June and October this year, Activ8me breached the Australian Consumer Law when […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Australia: Regulation of transmission services should continue for a further five years
Source: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission The ACCC has today released a draft report proposing that its declaration, or regulation, of Australia’s Domestic Transmission Capacity Service (DTCS) continue for a further five years, after the current arrangement expires on 31 March 2019. Transmission services, also known as backhaul, are high capacity wholesale services that carry […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Australia: ACCC takes action against TPG for misleading customers
Source: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission The ACCC has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against TPG Internet Pty Ltd (TPG) for engaging in misleading conduct about a $20 ‘prepayment’ made by consumers, and including unfair prepayment contract terms in some of the telco’s plans. Customers signing up to a TPG plan had to pay […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Australia: Court rules fish oil capsules not ‘Made in Australia’
Source: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission The Federal Court has ruled that the encapsulation in Australia of imported fish oil and Vitamin D by Nature’s Care Manufacture Pty Ltd (Nature’s Care) would not permit the capsules to be labelled ‘Made in Australia’ under the Australian Consumer Law’s (ACL) Country of Origin labelling provisions. “The ACCC […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Australia: Dairy processors agree to amend farmer contract terms
Source: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Dairy processors Brownes Food Operations, Lion Dairy & Drinks, Norco Co-operative Limited, Parmalat Australia and Fonterra Australia have each agreed to amend specific terms in their milk supply agreements to address the ACCC’s concerns these terms were unfair to dairy farmers. The ACCC has been working with dairy processors […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Australia: Visy Recycling, Cleanaway and Suez remove potentially unfair contract terms
Source: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Visy Paper Pty Ltd (trading as Visy Recycling), Cleanaway Pty Ltd and Suez Recycling & Recovery Pty Ltd have reviewed and amended potentially unfair contract terms in their standard form contracts following an ACCC investigation into the use of unfair contract terms in the waste management industry. All three […]
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