The Commonwealth Regulatory Climate heats up; Supply Chain legislation under the microscope; wins for the ATO against Chevron and FWO against an accountancy company found to have been “knowingly concerned” in a client’s misconduct and bold proposals for changes to the Australian Consumer Law.

An exciting fortnight for corporate crime policy: the senate economics committee published its report on white-collar penalties; the attorney-general proposed a deferred prosecution scheme; final submissions on whistleblower protections were received and new powers for WorkSafe proposed.

Many consumer law issues this fortnight: consumer products collecting and reporting data without consent; contract terms that take 9 hours to read; government-funded class actions; penalties for a diamond-trading sham and misleading airline drip-pricing, plus Australia’s biggest civil penalty to date goes to Tabcorp.

An action-packed fortnight in Australia: a successful acquittal appeal for the SA EPA; Downer EDI’s defence counsel criticised for defence strategy; Yahoo!7 sentenced for contempt; more jury law amendment in Victoria, and Unimelb publishes final report on fraudulent phoenixes.