Regulation
Spam with your order? DoorDash fined for flooding customers, drivers with promos
The popular delivery service has copped a $2 million fine for spamming customers, including more than 500,000 people who had asked to unsubscribe to its promotions.
- by Sarah Danckert
Latest
A major vaping crackdown was promised. Three months on, there’s no start date in sight
Health ministers will receive their first advice on the issue this week, but there is not yet a timeline for the reform.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
ASIC will surrender top-secret documents to Senate committee
Questions about ASIC’s top officials and their handling of crime have bled into the political arena as Liberal Andrew Bragg has accused Labor of hiding ASIC’s failings.
- by Paul Sakkal
The offensive reason you can’t shop at night
Queensland’s “simplified” trading-hour rules remain an absurd tangle of zones, exemptions and demographics.
- by Zach Hope
ASIC accused of being ‘totally distracted’ pursuing white-collar crime
The Australian corporate regulator’s chair and deputy chair have both been accused of inappropriate workplace behaviour.
- by Paul Sakkal
Opinion
AI
The world is scrambling to take back control of a risky technology
The sheer speed at which artificial intelligence has advanced has governments around the world scrambling to regulate a technology that carries as many risks to society as it does opportunities.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
New regulations flagged after girl, 9, dies in quad bike crash
Premier Roger Cook says he will review quad bike regulations after a horrific crash that killed a nine-year-old girl in Jarrahdale, 45 kilometres south-east of Perth, on Saturday.
- by Alex Condon
Opinion
Drugs
Everyone’s sick ... of over-regulation. It’s time to flip the script
Incredible advances of Western medicine have delivered the perfect preparation to ameliorate the worst symptoms of a cold or flu, except we’re not allowed to buy it anymore.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Australia may ban gambling ads within three years after inquiry report
Gambling harm experts say advertisements can encourage young people and those with gambling problems to seek out betting when they would otherwise abstain.
- by Amelia McGuire, Calum Jaspan and Paul Sakkal
Insurers to repay $815 million after overcharging consumers
More than 5.6 million consumers will be repaid after the corporate regulator revealed 11 general insurers had overcharged their customers.
- by Millie Muroi
ASIC accused of undermining Senate committee
The corporate regulator has been accused by all major political parties of obstructing parliamentary investigations into how it polices the nation’s businesses.
- by Rachel Clun