‘A lot of talk, not much action’: Paul Fletcher calls out Labor on combatting scammers

Shadow Government Services Minister Paul Fletcher has called out the Albanese government for having “a lot of talk, not much action” on combatting scammers. Australians lost more than $470 million to scams last year, according to new ACCC figures. Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has labelled Meta as the "biggest part of the biggest problem" and said their failure to crackdown on scammers on their platforms is "not good enough". “They only got around to issuing a paper with their proposals on this late last year … so, a lot of talk, not much action. “These big digital platforms don’t want to incur any greater expenses than they’re required to in complying with the law in Australia and frankly anywhere else they operate.”