International online education organisation Shaw Academy has agreed to refund hundreds of former students after admitting some students experienced difficulties cancelling a free trial the academy offered before it became a paid subscription to the company’s online courses.



Consumers are expected to splash $60 billion nationwide throughout the festive season, with Australians thinking of getting online presents delivered are encouraged to get in now to ensure they don’t miss out on getting their preferred Christmas purchases.

COMPANY NEWS: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise launches the Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX Enterprise Purple, a communications platform that integrates real-time communications into business processes and applications, reduces latency with intelligent objects, improves business efficiency, and increases customer satisfaction.

In 2020, the Morrison Government legislated an ongoing broadband tax of $7.10 per month per service, specifically for the purpose of recovering the costs of the regional fixed-wireless and satellite rollout, and funding all future fixed-wireless upgrades to 2040, says Shadow Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland.

Companies within the Basslink group have gone into voluntary administration, the company said in a statement on Friday, adding that Ernst & Young would be acting as voluntary administrators.

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