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Type Title Description Date
Submission How to level a playing field:

PIAC’s submission critiques the methodology being adopted by the AEMC for the conduct of...

12 Apr 2010
Submission Protecting consumers?:

This submission forms the response of PIAC to the Ministerial Council on Energy’s Second Exposure Draft of the...

11 Mar 2010
Submission Healthcare identifiers and consumer privacy protection:

In its submission to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, PIAC argues that the Healthcare Identifiers...

09 Mar 2010
Submission Answers to Questions on Notice from public hearing on 15 February 2010 in relation to the Freedom...

In March 2010, PIAC made a supplementary submission to the Commonwealth Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public...

05 Mar 2010
Submission A public interest approach to costs:

PIAC’s submission analyses the current rules in relation to costs in litigation in NSW...

05 Mar 2010
Submission Undermining the second chance:

This submission examines PIAC’s concerns about section 17 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 (NSW...

26 Feb 2010
Submission Access to energy II:

This report forms PIAC’s submission to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales (...

02 Feb 2010
Submission Freedom of information repackaged:

The Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009 (Cth) (the FOIR Bill) and the Information Commissioner Bill 2009...

29 Jan 2010
Submission Public funding: preserving democracy.

The NSW Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters is conducting an inquiry into a model of public funding for...

27 Jan 2010
Submission Supplementary submission to the NSW Legislative Council's Select Committee on the NSW Taxi...

This supplementary submission responds to the questions that were raised with Ms Simpson during the public hearing into the NSW...

22 Jan 2010
Submission Taxis for all:

In January 2010, PIAC made a submission to the NSW Legislative Council Select Committee on the...

22 Jan 2010
Submission Not yet ready for exposure: response to the Exposure Draft Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010

In its submission to the Federal Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA), PIAC argues that the Exposure Draft Healthcare...

15 Jan 2010
Submission Gas price regulation:

In November 2009 the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales (IPART) released an Issues Paper as...

23 Dec 2009
Submission Homeless not houseless:

In October 2009, NSW Fair Trading released a draft Residential Tenancy Bill.

23 Dec 2009
Submission A better future for Australia's Indigenous young people:

The over-representation of Indigenous juveniles in the justice system has been an issue for many years, and is a particular issue in ...

22 Dec 2009
Submission Reducing the risk for consumers:

The Productivity Commission established an inquiry into gambling early in 2009, for which PIAC made a submission in...

22 Dec 2009
Submission High and dry:

In November 2009 the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) released a Consultation...

18 Dec 2009
Submission Towards an independent and effective national mental health consumer organisation: 18 Dec 2009
Journal/Newsletter PIAC bulletin [30]: 15 Dec 2009
Submission Improving the response to customer hardship:

In November 2009, Industry & Investment NSW invited stakeholders to comment on the draft...

09 Dec 2009