Consumer win: Misleading conduct cases turn to scientific evidence

23 Dec 2016 | Recent cases of misleading and deceptive conduct show an increased role for scientific evidence in ...  

Allan Patience: What's next after neoliberalism?

26 Nov 2016 | Labor needs to step up to fight the unmitigated disaster of neo-liberalism.  

#NABandGrab outed for charging 28 per cent interest rate to blind, elderly farmer

12 Aug 2016 | After the "people's hero" Michael West ran the story of a an elderly blind farmer being cha ...  

Body Corporate Services and the strata scheme from hell (Part 2)

11 Jul 2016 | Dr Evan Jones continues his examination into an instance of "buyer beware" strata title own ...  

Body Corporate Services and the strata scheme from hell (Part 1)

10 Jul 2016 | Dr Evan Jones examines an instance of "buyer beware" strata title ownership which highlight ...  

Health insurance: The real cost of living!

7 Apr 2016 | Before you decide to just accept the 1 April price hike on health insurance, or even cancel that ...  

Online retailers yet to harness big social data

7 Apr 2016 | When your online purchase doesn’t show up, it’s likely you’ll turn to Twitter. University of ...  

Bank holdups to be certified A-OK? (Part 2)

18 Mar 2016 | Dr Evan Jones continues his six-part analysis on the series of parliamentary inquiries into ...  

Shop Small! The duopoly of Woolworths and Coles is killing small business

17 Jan 2015 | If the Americans are screaming blue murder because Wal-Mart and its competitors have 23 per cent ...  

NSW Government forces Origin to spread anti-carbon price propaganda

11 Mar 2014 | Last week, Origin Energy made the mistake of sending some propaganda to IA reporter Lachlan Barker ...  

Protecting consumers from Dark Patterns

14 Jan 2014 | There has been an emergence in recent year of “dark patterns” behaviour by sellers, which ...  

The Great Theme Park Scam

6 Jan 2014 | While Sydney’s new Wet ’n Wild is getting media brickbats daily, the established Gold Coast ...  

Don’t miss the bargains! Time to buy more landfill

28 Dec 2013 | At this time of the year, the nation enters an hysteria of excessive buying. Lyn Bender considers ...  

Australia's unfair knife laws?

3 Nov 2013 | Knives are legitimate tools, but in Australia some of them are banned. 15 year-old knife colle ...  

A broadband horror story from TPG

4 Jun 2013 | Thinking about getting broadband? Thinking of going with TPG? Maybe you'll think again after ...  

Facts speak for themselves — Australia still lucky country

18 Mar 2013 | Despite the News Ltd media and the Coalition talking down our economy at every turn, Australia ...  

Sympathy for the NAB

26 Feb 2013 | The National Australia Bank suffered a drastic "profit slump" last year, only clearing a meagre ...  

Technology and progress ― where to from here?

30 Oct 2012 | The way we are living is becoming unsustainable, says Matthew Mitchell, who outlines the 'reind ...