Early childhood education enrolment for First Nations children reaches 95% across the country. Follow updates live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Victoria will push for a national crackdown on hidden ticketing fees and deceptive dynamic pricing practices when Australian consumer affairs state ministers meet with the commonwealth’s assistant minister for productivity, competition, charities and treasury, Andrew Leigh, in Darwin today. Victoria’s consumer affairs minister, Paul Edbrooke, has written to the federal government seeking national reforms to address unfair practices in the ticketing industry, amid growing concerns over the dominance of a small number of major players in the Australian ticketing market. This situation is exacerbated by the increasing dominance of a small number of very large players in the Australian ticketing market. There is an urgent need for targeted nation-wide action to address these consumer harms. Continue reading...