The Federal Government is repealing telecommunications anti-competitive laws originally imposed nearly 20 years ago to support the development of competition in the telecommunications sector. The move has upset Telstra’s competitors who have angrily hit back.

Severely hurt by ride-sharing services such as Uber, taxi service provider 13CABS has launched a new mobile app and an improved booking system that will allow a driver to see a passenger's destination only when the latter boards the cab.

The activist group GetUp has slammed the Federal Government over its threat to an elderly man who runs a website called Save Medicare where he publishes information about government changes to healthcare services and has launched a petiton asking Canberra to back off.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken Meriton Property Services to the Federal Court over what it claims is misleading or deceptive conduct in online reviews of properties on the TripAdvisor website.

The Senate Economics Reference Committee has recommended that any privacy impact assessment into the census should be handled by an external party and the outcome published on the website of the Australian Bureau of Statistics a year before the census to which it relates.

The Federal Government has accepted the Productivity Commission’s recommendations on public safety mobile broadband (PSMB) requiring emergency services to use commercial mobile networks.

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