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Dec 7, 2024 | 
thenewdaily.com.au | Jeannie Marie Paterson
Have you ever spotted what looked like a great deal on a website, added it to your “basket” and proceeded to checkout – only to find extra fees added on at the last minute? It’s frustratingly common when making airline, hotel and many other kinds of bookings to see an advertised price get ratcheted up at checkout with additional fees – perhaps “shipping insurance”, “resort fees” or just “taxes”.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
mamamia.com.au | Jeannie Marie Paterson
Have you ever spotted what looked like a great deal on a website, added it to your “basket” and proceeded to checkout – only to find extra fees added on at the last minute? It’s frustratingly common when making airline, hotel and many other kinds of bookings to see an advertised price get ratcheted up at checkout with additional fees – perhaps “shipping insurance”, “resort fees” or just “taxes”.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Jeannie Marie Paterson
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jeannie Marie Paterson
Have you ever spotted what looked like a great deal on a website, added it to your “basket” and proceeded to checkout – only to find extra fees added on at the last minute? It’s frustratingly common when making airline, hotel and many other kinds of bookings to see an advertised price get ratcheted up at checkout with additional fees – perhaps “shipping insurance”, “resort fees” or just “taxes”.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Matt Garrow |Matthew Hall |Di Ana Johnson |Geoff Warren |Helen Hodgson |Jeannie Marie Paterson | +1 more
We all know how important it is to save enough money for retirement – but what about spending it wisely when we get there? Even for those who have built up a suitable nest egg, managing money well in retirement isn’t necessarily straightforward. Now, the federal government has said it wants to make it easier. On Wednesday, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced a broad package of reforms to the retirement phase of the superannuation system.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
dailybulletin.com.au | Jeannie Marie Paterson
In Australia, it’s scam victims who foot the bill for the overwhelming majority of the money lost to scams each year. A 2023 review by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) found banks detected and stopped only a small proportion of scams. The total amount banks paid in compensation paled in comparison to total losses.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Jeannie Marie Paterson
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jeannie Marie Paterson
It’s been more than five years since the banking royal commission, but its findings continue to have an impact on the financial services sector. Law firm Maurice Blackburn recently announced it had settled with ANZ in a class action over allegedly unlawful “flex commissions” built into car loans made by Esanda between 2011 and 2016. ANZ agreed to settle the proceedings for $85 million on a “no admission of liability” basis.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
dailybulletin.com.au | Jeannie Marie Paterson
At a time most people are trying to cut their weekly grocery bills, Australia’s supermarket giants have been hit with legal action for allegedly misleading shoppers over the price of hundreds of products. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Monday announced it was launching separate actions in the Federal Court against the largest and second-largest grocery chains, Woolworths and Coles.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jeannie Marie Paterson
At a time most people are trying to cut their weekly grocery bills, Australia’s supermarket giants have been hit with legal action for allegedly misleading shoppers over the price of hundreds of products. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Monday announced it was launching separate actions in the Federal Court against the largest and second-largest grocery chains, Woolworths and Coles.
