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Cosmetic Surgery Industry
Franchising
Wage Theft
Toll Roads
22 March 2025 - Gone in 52 seconds: Inside Australia’s telehealth injectables gold rush
17 January 2025 - Queensland’s cosmetic injectables industry in panic
23 June 2024 - Social media algorithms leading young Australian women to take drastic action to alter their appearance
19 January 2024 - Aesthetic Industry Reacts To The Recent TGA Changes Regarding Advertising Injectables
13 November 2023 - What You Need To Know Before Getting Breast Implants
6 November 2023 - New Podcast Aims To Uncover The ‘Dark Side’ of Cosmetic Surgery
20 October 2023 - The New Hay Fever Treatment That Has Doctors Concerned
5 September 2023 - AHPRA Propose Ban On Unregistered Health Professionals Performing Cosmetic Procedures
5 September 2023 - Cosmetic crackdown now targeting Botox, fillers
5 September 2023 - Cosmetic surgery crackdown now targeting fillers, botox and other procedures
5 September 2023 - Non-surgical cosmetic procedures in AHPRA sights
26 August 2023 - Dr Daniel Darbyshire, a defendant in celebrity cosmetic surgeon Daniel Lanzer class action, dies
8 May 2023 - This popular cosmetic injection is linked to 12 reports of blindness
21 August 2022 - A Worse Look
9 June 2022 - A Bad Look
7 June 2022 - Proposed removal of testimonial ban in medical advertising
7 June 2022 - Scrapping ban on patient testimonials would give free rein to cosmetic ‘cowboys’, experts warn
10 May 2022 - ‘We gave them all we could’: Retail Food Group drags failed franchisees to court over unpaid debts
4 December 2021 - Cosmetic surgeon Daniel Lanzer resigns as medical practitioner, name removed from clinic shopfronts and websites
4 December 2021 - Controversial cosmetic surgeon Dr Daniel Lanzer quits as regulators circle
30 November 2021 - The jig is up: Time to rein in the cosmetic surgery industry
29 November 2021 - TikTok celebrity cosmetic surgeon reprimanded by regulator
27 November 2021 - ‘Unimaginable things’: Whistleblowers lift lid on cosmetic surgery underbelly
30 October 2021 - How the cosmetic cowboys ran free on the wild west of social media
25 October 2021 - Cosmetic Cowboys
20 October 2021 - Michel’s Patisserie franchisees seek justice after losing millions
4 March 2021 - ACCC unconscionable conduct action against Retail Food Group adjourned to August
22 February 2021 - Private bill proposes to lift penalties for franchise sector
16 December 2020 - Retail Food Group needs to right the wrongs of the past
28 March 2020 - The $180b franchising crisis: landlords, franchisors need to step up
14 December 2019 - Wage scandals becoming the dark underbelly of the labour market
14 March 2019 - Franchise industry faces tougher enforcements
24 February 2019 - Muffin Break faces backlash after boss says millennials won't do unpaid work
11 July 2018 - Mortgage Choice to take $30 million profit hit as it moves to ward off franchisee revolt
3 July 2018 - Class action against Retail Food Group folds
8 June 2018 - 'Inherently unfair': the human misery of franchising
5 June 2018 - Mortgage Choice franchisees set to revolt over tough home loan targets and low commissions
7 May 2018 - 'I was effectively a slave': broken Red Rooster and Oporto franchisees
23 February 2018 - Queenslanders owe $1.2 billion in unpaid fines
19 January 2018 - Retail Food Group facing potential class action from ‘hundreds’ of disgruntled franchisees
19 January 2018 - 'Emptied my kids' accounts': Franchise giant in law firm's sights
12 January 2018 - Toll road costs and fines
18 December 2017 - 'It's like 7-Eleven': claims underpayment is rife at RFG
9 December 2017 - Cup of sorrow: the brutal reality of Australia's franchise king
5 November 2017 - Transurban under pressure over 'excessive' CityLink fees to enforce tolls
13 February 2017 - Domino's scandal: franchisee selling visas
10 February 2017 - The Domino’s effect
14 April 2016 - Blowing the Whistle on Corporate Corruption
1 October 2015 - 7-Eleven scandal: Worker exploitation destroys the economy
31 August 2015 - How 7-Eleven is ripping off its workers
30 August 2015 - Price of Convenience
29 August 2015 - 7-Eleven staff work twice as long at half pay rate, investigation reveals