Super members blindsided by change in fund terms and conditions
By Adelaide Miller
A superannuation investment option spruiked as offering "choice and flexibility" has been shut down without proper notification, leaving members less than two months to sell all their assets.
#Superannuation #ConsumerProtection #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #StockMarket #AdelaideMiller
Darwin midwife's $1.1 million government contract under review
By Roxanne Fitzgerald
Darwin midwife Claire Marks was under investigation by the nursing and midwifery watchdog when she was handed a $1.1 million contract by the NT government, which is now reviewing the matter, as doctors continue to raise concerns, and the service brings on new staff.
#BusinessandIndustryRegulation #PublicHealth #StateandTerritoryGovernment #GovernmentFunding #Work #PregnancyandChildbirth #DoctorsandMedicalProfessionals #RoxanneFitzgerald
Darwin midwife Claire Marks was under investigation by the nursing and midwifery watchdog when she was handed a $1.1 million contract by the NT government, which is now reviewing the matter, as doctors continue to raise concerns, and the service brings on new staff.
Gambling reforms bill slammed as 'kneejerk' response to Four Corners
By Jack Hislop
The Northern Territory government has introduced legislation intended to reform Australia's de facto online gambling regulator, but it's been criticised as a "damage-control exercise".
#Gambling #Laws #StateandTerritoryGovernment #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #RegulatoryAuthorities #JackHislop
Angry customers who lost $10m in Zone RV collapse urge ASIC to investigate
By Josh Dye
With retirement dreams dashed, customers launch a nationwide campaign for the corporate watchdog to investigate the caravan company's former director over insolvent trading claims.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-06/angry-customers-zone-rv-urge-asic-investigation/106446428
#ConsumerProtection #TourismandLeisureIndustry #Businesses #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #TravelandTourism #CompanyNews #SmallBusinesses #JoshDye
“[T]he work of squeezing quality and dignity and concern out of the #labor is automated, or something very near to it
“[B]ut the services of a stern man's face are required in the moments when that work delivers the eruptions of tragedy and carnage that it always does. Someone has to look ashamed, and also ensure that the shameful stuff doesn't stop, or slow.”
https://defector.com/how-will-the-golden-age-of-making-it-worse-end
#Capitalism #MakingItWorse #Finance #ApologyTour #TooBigToJail #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #Union
One of the more poignant and ridiculous and enduringly popular contemporary American insanities is the belief that one person—it’s almost always a man, although Jennifer Garner did get to do it in a movie once—can make a critical difference in any bad situation, provided that person is angry and violent enough. The most crystalline expression […]
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