Infoblaze Australia

12/10/2025

Social media and big tech under fire as online ethics scores fall into negatives

Governance Institute of Australia’s 2025 Ethics Index reveals a sharp warning sign for the digital world, highlighting Australians’ growing mistrust in the authenticity of social media and online platforms.

While many sectors of society have remained steady or even improved their ethics scores, social media stands out as one of the most negatively viewed areas.

The media sector overall sits in negative territory in 2025, and social media platforms continue to attract strong criticism.

TikTok is overall seen as the least ethical platform, with Facebook and Twitter also viewed negatively.

Between one in four and one in five Australians now rate social media platforms as “very unethical,” placing them among the most distrusted parts of modern life....
http://infoblaze.com/news/details/115000

Governance Institute of Australia

11/10/2025

's proposed acquisition of raises competition concerns

The ACCC has outlined its preliminary competition concerns with Yamaha Motor Australia Pty Ltd’s proposed acquisition of Telwater Pty Ltd in a Statement of Issues published today.

Telwater is the largest manufacturer and supplier of aluminium trailer boats in Australia and has strong brand recognition throughout the recreational marine industry. Market participants have told the ACCC that a Telwater aluminium trailer boat is a very important product for many dealers.

Yamaha is a leading supplier of outboard motors. It faces competition from outboard motor brands such as Mercury and Suzuki......
http://infoblaze.com/news/details/114985

ACCC

10/10/2025

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10/10/2025

Are you a business or organisation that sends text messages to your customers?

New changes are coming to the way you can send text messages.

If you use sender IDs that identify your brand, such as ‘ATO’ or ‘myGov’, you’ll need to register those IDs with your telco or message provider.

The registration period runs from 30 November 2025 to 30 June 2026.

From 1 July 2026, unregistered sender IDs will be replaced with the word ‘Unverified’.

Registering your sender ID:

✅ Protects your brand from scammers
✅ Ensures your messages are clearly identified
✅ Builds trust with your customers

Start talking to your telco or message provider now about registering your sender ID.

🔗 Read more: https://www.acma.gov.au/articles/2025-10/time-get-ready-new-sms-id-register

10/10/2025

04/10/2025

fined $18 million for misleading Belong customers over broadband speed claims

Telstra has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay a penalty of $18 million for breaching the Australian Consumer Law after it moved almost 9,000 Belong customers to a lower speed plan without telling them.

In October and November 2020, Telstra migrated 8,897 customers on its Belong brand NBN plans from their current plan which provided a maximum upload speed of 40 Mbps to a service that provided a maximum upload speed of only 20 Mbps. The download speed was unchanged at 100Mbps.

Telstra did not tell customers of the change in maximum upload speed in their service at the time of the change.....
http://infoblaze.com/news/details/114912

ACCC

28/09/2025

Economic measures of general aviation in Australia

GA plays a range of essential roles in Australia including servicing regional communities, delivering education and health services, regional freight and transport, tourism, recreation, agricultural mustering and spraying, instructional flying, sport and pleasure flying, and emergency services.

However, GA is not a stand-alone category in Australia’s System of National Accounts. Instead it makes up a small subset of a very wide range of economic activities, making it difficult to estimate its actual economic impact. This study considers a range of sources, including innovative methods of matching aircraft registrations to business activity, to estimate the contribution of GA to Australia’s economy.....
http://infoblaze.com/news/details/114827


Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics

27/09/2025

ACCC authorises industry coordination to migrate card payments system to more secure encryption standard

On 25 September 2025, the ACCC issued a determination granting authorisation AA1000699 to enable Australian Payments Network Limited (AusPayNet) and current and future members of the Issuers and Acquirers Community to:

- make and give effect to agreements on certain aspects of a program of work to migrate the Australian card payments system from the currently used Triple Data Encryption Standard to the more secure Advanced Encryption Standard, and

- share information to monitor progress, report issues and develop solutions to issues pertaining to those agreements for the sole purpose of facilitating the migration to the Advanced Encryption Standard.....
http://infoblaze.com/news/details/114815

ACCC

25/09/2025

ASIC proposes extending distribution exemption

ASIC is proposing to extend class relief for intermediaries engaging in the secondary distribution of a second stablecoin issued by an Australian financial services (licenced) issuer.

The instrument would amend ASIC Corporations (Stablecoin Distribution Exemption) Instrument 2025/631 to add a second named stablecoin, and make some minor consequential and clarification changes.

Instrument 2025/631 exempts intermediaries from the requirement to hold separate AFS, Australian market, or Australian clearing and settlement facility licences when providing services related to stablecoins issued by an AFS licensee....
http://infoblaze.com/news/details/114782

21/09/2025

ASIC issues DDO stop order against Capital Mortgage

ASIC has made an interim stop order against the RELI Capital Mortgage Fund (Fund), a registered managed investment scheme operated by RELI Capital Limited (RELI Capital) to protect consumers and retail investors from acquiring a product that may not be suitable for their financial objectives, situation or needs....
http://infoblaze.com/news/details/114716

ASIC Connect

19/09/2025

Channel 7 breaches classification rules with fishing program

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found Channel Seven Sydney Pty Limited breached classification rules during the broadcast of a fishing show that included highly inappropriate comments about domestic violence.

The ACMA investigation found that the comments, made during an episode of Step Outside with Paul Burt broadcast on 7mate in March 2025, breached the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice classification rules for ‘PG’ content, which require themes of domestic conflict to be handled with care.

ACMA member Carolyn Lidgerwood said the ACMA did not consider the remarks dealing with a domestic conflict theme were suitable for an audience expecting to watch a light entertainment PG rated program...
http://infoblaze.com/news/details/114703

Australian Communications and Media Authority

14/09/2025

Show breaches decency rules

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found four broadcast licensees in breach of decency rules due to comments broadcast on the Marty Sheargold Show about women’s sport.

The ACMA investigation found that Triple M Sydney Pty Ltd, Triple M Brisbane Pty Ltd, Gold Coast FM Pty Ltd and Maryborough Broadcasting Company Pty Limited all contravened the Commercial Radio Code of Practice by allowing derogatory language and sexist themes to be broadcast on the program.

These included comments that the Australian women’s national football team, the Matildas, were behaving like “Year 10 girls”, with the host proceeding to mimic a Year 10 girl, perpetuating stereotypes of women’s behaviour.....
http://infoblaze.com/news/details/114638

Australian Communications and Media Authority