On Tuesday 9 December 2014, ASIC announced that it will conduct surveillance into interest-only loans as part of a broader review by regulators of home lending standards. ASIC states that it will look at the conduct of lenders ...

Some years ago ASIC and ACCC released Regulatory Guide 96 - Debt Collection Guideline: For Collectors and Creditors. That is now the bible for anyone involved in collection activities. Now ACCC and ASIC have released a separate...

The China Australia Free Trade Agreement will further open China as an attractive marketplace for business and investment, with greater access to China’s $10 trillion economy which currently has a growth rate of around 7.7% per ...

Thanks to billions of wirelessly connected devices across the globe gathering and transmitting data about our lives, we face a potentially enormous threat to our privacy. At the annual International Conference of Data Protectio...

With the announcement that negotiations over the Australia China free trade agreement have concluded, your clients will be interested to discover how this new FTA will affect them. Here, we provide guidance on common importer/...

New South Wales has 12 new Protection of the Environment Operations Waste ReguRegulations. 1 November 2014 changes are in response to calls from landfill operators that the previous deduction categories were too restrictive. Pa...