Business and Industry Regulation

The Australian facial injectables industry was estimated to be worth $4.1 billion in 2023, with big corporates including Wesfarmers owning a slice of the market. But the business model behind the boom has attracted complaints and raised some safety concerns.

As more cracks appear in the burgeoning super industry, performance won't take centre stage. The trust gap will.

With the rise and rise of rooftop solar showing no signs of stopping in Australia, the market operator says "emergency" powers to control it are urgently needed.

The consumer watchdog alleges Webjet promoted cheap flights to people for years without including enough information about extra charges and fees.

The Australian Energy Market Commission will crack down on 'concerning practices' by some energy providers amid the rollout of smart meters across the country.

The Victorian government will become the first state to force retirement village operators to sign up to a mandatory code of conduct as part of a crackdown on the sector that also includes more transparency on how fees are calculated.

Cryptocurrency devotees are riding the recent crypto wave fuelled by Donald Trump's re-election in the US. But Australian industry figures says businesses and consumers are being let down by a lack of regulation.

Household clean tech set-ups like solar and batteries can mean huge savings. But what's sitting behind the meter may become the most valuable asset as a new energy market emerges.

They're among the most popular household batteries and eligible for lucrative taxpayer subsidies, but critics say Tesla's products are costing consumers and the grid.

The LNP government is under pressure to introduce new laws to stop dodgy dealings in Queensland's body corporate sector.

Strata managers are responsible for a building's finances and insurance, as well as making sure the body corporate complies with legislation.

Woolworths and Coles are emphasising the threat of Aldi — is it really a competitive force to be reckoned with? A supermarket inquiry will determine just that, among other competition concerns.

Apartment buildings in NSW could be inspected without a warrant and unit owners could be compelled to hand over documents under proposed new laws targeting owners corporations who do not fix common property.

A former insider calls it the "side hustle" of Australia's superannuation funds – where the handling of thousands of death and disability claims from injured workers and grieving families falls to underpaid, overworked staff away from the main game. 

The two biggest supermarkets in Australia, Woolworths and Coles, have spent the week facing the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

The supermarket giant told Australia's competition watchdog its competition went far beyond Coles, Aldi, and Costco, and that it was spending millions on its online offerings to prepare with Amazon as an emerging competitor.

Members of the United Workers Union are walking off the job to demand uniform pay deals and structures at Woolworths.

NSW Transport Minister Jo Haylen says operating permanent 24-hour train services will jeopardise the network's maintenance activities and timetables.

Just 18 days before Russell Wayne Hirst died of a cardiac event in November 2021, superannuation giant Cbus cancelled his insurance policy, leaving the beneficiary of his account in a year-long fight to have her claim approved.

Woolworths's bosses will face the ACCC's inquiry into supermarket pricing today, as the consumer watchdog continues to prosecute its case that the corporate giant and its competitor Coles have been dudding their customers on discounts.