Perth Airport has received the highest overall quality of service rating among Australia's major airports, with passengers enjoying their experience and airlines rating it the best in the country.
Optus has been ordered to pay a $10 million fine, one of the highest penalties to be imposed by the Federal Court, for misleading its customers over digital content.
The Federal Court has imposed a $2.6 million penalty on Ultra Tune Australia, after it was found the automotive servicing and roadside assist company made false or misleading representations about a franchise site, and then tried to mislead the court in its defence.
Wesfarmers-owned Kleenheat Gas has paid $25,200 in penalties, after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission issued two infringement notices for alleged false and misleading discount gas campaign.
The competition watchdog has cleared Santos' planned $2.9 billion takeover of Quadrant Energy despite concerns from some businesses in the Goldfields region about reduced competition for gas supplies.
The competition watchdog will allow Fairfax Media's $4 billion merger with Nine Entertainment to go ahead after deciding the move would not diminish competition in Australian news and media.
The consumer watchdog says 5G mobile technology could become a substitute for the National Broadband Network, on the same day NBN Co launched its new business-grade product.
Telstra has refunded a total $9.3 million to more than 70,000 customers it billed without their knowledge or consent following action by the consumer watchdog.
The state government appears to be continuing to back away from plans to introduce increased competition in electricity retailing, with Economics and Industry Committee chair Jessica Shaw saying she'd like to see more evidence it would reduce prices.
The corporate regulator has commenced civil penalty proceedings against ANZ Banking Group over allegations the bank breached its continuous disclosure obligations during a 2015 capital raising.
The competition watchdog has approved a Hong Kong consortium's $13 billion takeover bid for APA Group, Australia's biggest gas pipeline company, on the proviso that four major assets in Western Australia are sold to new owners.
Kewdale-based manufacturer Fero Group appears set to be acquired by global outifit DYWIDAG-Systems International (DSI) Group, after the competition watchdog said it would not oppose the deal.
It may have gone largely unnoticed in Western Australia, but a recent report into the east coast's electricity market could have major implications for the state, including for government-owned monopoly power business Synergy.
ANZ is facing criminal charges over alleged cartel conduct related to a $2.5 billion share placement, while two of the underwriters to the deal, Citi and Deutsche Bank, also received notice of charges.
Software group MYOB has dumped a $180 million deal to acquire the Australian and New Zealand assets of Reckon's Accountant Group after discovering new information about the company and its competitors.
Optus will pay $1.5 million in penalties for pressuring customers to move to the National Broadband Network sooner than required and misleading some of them about NBN service options.
More Australian homes and businesses are connecting to higher-speed services on the National Broadband Network, while NBN said today it had more than doubled revenue in the first nine months of the financial year.
Milk production in Western Australia has recovered to levels approaching those before the industry's deregulation nearly two decades ago, a recent report has found, while the number of milk-producing farms in the state has fallen significantly.
Perth Airport has received the highest rating of Australia's four biggest airports and registered a spike in profits during the past financial year, according to a report from the consumer watchdog.
Perth-based kitchen appliances firm Thermomix has been ordered to pay $4.6 million in penalties after the Federal Court of Australia found that the company misled customers when its products were found to be dangerously faulty.
Telstra is being taken to court by the consumer watchdog, and is facing fines of up to $10 million and user refunds of $5 million after the telco allegedly charged its own customers unawares through a third-party billing service.
Internet service providers Dodo, iPrimus and M2 Commander will compensate almost 6,000 customers after admitting they likely breached consumer law by offering national broadband network speed plans they could not deliver.
Internet plans over the national broadband network are getting cheaper, a new report says, despite recent criticism from retailers that their NBN costs are too high.
TPG Telecom has lifted its full-year guidance after first-half underlying profit rose, but the internet provider's two subsidiaries, iiNet and Internode, are being forced to compensate 11,000 customers following an investigation by the consumer watchdog.
The corporate watchdog has today released a report outlining changes made by the big four banks to small business loans to remove unfair terms, while the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has flagged concerns with the major banks' mortgage pricing strategies.
Next month will mark 20 years since stevedoring business Patrick dismissed its workforce at the apex of what became one of the most significant, and contentious, industrial relations battles in a generation.
News Corporation and Telstra have struck a deal that will see Foxtel and Fox Sports will merge into a single company by the end of June, with current Foxtel chief executive Patrick Delaney at its head.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commissionhas asked operators of six liquefied natural gas facilities in Western Australia and the Northern Territory to publicly disclose maintenance schedule information they share with each other.
The competition watchdog is taking Woolworths to the Federal Court, accusing it of labelling its disposable picnic products as biodegradable when they are not.
Congestion on the national broadband network has eased as more customers turn to higher speed plans after rollout company NBN Co slashed its top speed packages last year.
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Local builder 101 Residential has amended its standard home building contract in response to the consumer watchdog's concerns that it contained unfair terms and made false or misleading representations.
The consumer watchdog has launched federal court proceedings against Optus, alleging the telco pressured customers to move to the national broadband network sooner than required.
The consumer watchdog plans to oppose the proposed takeover of Woolworths service stations by BP Australia, saying the deal would substantially lessen competition.
Aveling Homes has been ordered by the federal court to pay $380,000 in response to the competition watchdog's claims that it had manipulated review websites.
