Rose Webb News Today

Appointments, departures and movement in and around the Australian government.

First woman to chair ACCC, new appointments in courts, new chief and chair for waterways authority, and more.

Strengthening protections for consumers in the wake of COVID-19 will be one of the priorities of newly-appointed NSW Fair Trading Commissioner Natasha

The NSW Government is seeking public feedback on law reforms which will shape how debt collectors, process servers and repossessors conduct business

The New South Wales Government has deployed new software in a bid to simplify building bond management processes through the recently created Strata Hub.

Replaces laborious paper-based process.

The NSW government has deployed Pegasystems’ Pega software to help simplify its building bond management process through the Strata Hub. Pegasystems s...

/PRNewswire/ -- Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company that crushes business complexity, today announced NSW Government has deployed Pega...

The Viagogo website was also selling tickets to next year’s Kings of Leon concerts in Sydney for $215 – compared to $150 from the authorised ticket seller; and to Kiwi singer Lorde’s Australian tour next March for $354 – a 400% mark-up on the same tickets being sold by the tour’s organiser, Frontier. The NSW Fair Trading commissioner, Rose Webb, said since live performance events reopened in 2021, the complaints against Viagogo have started to pile up. “Now that [live] events are ba...

Chilly consumers are urged to be aware of the dangers that come with staying warm this winter, including flammable pyjamas, illegal heaters, gas...