Shoppers trapped by dodgy practices to win relief [Video]

Business ploys that make it virtually impossible to cancel a subscription, deliver hidden price increases during an online transaction or fake warnings of limited stock would be banned under a federal government plan to target unfair trading practices.

As the Reserve Bank concedes the debit and credit card surcharging system is in effect broken, the government revealed it would overhaul Australian Consumer Law before next year’s election by targeting what it described as dodgy sales techniques.

In a sign of the electoral damage the country’s cost-of-living crisis is posing to the government, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday will announce the consumer protections, just a day after signalling a ban on debit card surcharges and a fortnight on from revealing a crackdown on …