That R word – recession – just won’t go away. It’s looking gloomy out there, with unemployment steadily increasing and many Australians facing redundancy. At the same time, household debts are higher than ever.
So CHOICE has prepared a survival guide for the global financial crisis. We regularly put financial services and providers under the microscope, [...]
Come and Protest against Motor Finance Wizard: Saturday June 28, 2008 at St Mary’s Dealership.
The Consumer Credit Legal Centre (NSW) is working with Consumer Action Law Centre in Melbourne, and other agencies throughout the country to organise a National Day of Action.
Most financial counsellors and consumer lawyers are aware of the practices of Motor Finance [...]
Comments(2) Whew. If you want to attract spam, just write about money and pharmaceuticals! CHOICE Voice has been receiving hundreds of spam comments, mostly about buying cheap prescription drugs or loan offers (although the ubiquitous explicit content sites are right up there also). You’re not seeing them on the site because we have a filter behind [...]
Read More..>>You can view the presentation from Ina Wilken from the South African National Consumer Union, here.
Read More..>>You can view speaker presentations, video interviews with delegates and speakers and congress photos online at the following places. We will be uploading speaker papers where there was no presentation as soon as we can get copies. We hope to upload audio files of all sessions in the near future. In the next few days [...]
Read More..>>Moscow based consumer group KonfOP has been battling the unfair credit practices of the “Russian Standard Bank” – which has the second largest market share for consumer credit in Russia (and has the largest for a non government bank).
Dimitri Yanin of KonfOP tells me that until earlier this year the bank aggressively marketed credit to [...]
Holding Corporations to Account is the theme of the 18th Consumers International World Congress, co-hosted by CHOICE, which will be held over three days in Sydney from 29 October to 1 November 2007.Consumers International (CI) is the global federation of consumer groups dedicated to the protection and promotion of consumers’ rights worldwide. It currently represents [...]
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