Popular Australian TikToker Teddy (@tedsthetics) has joined The Great Australian Rip Off campaign to help in the fight to bring down the cost of living.
Titled ‘The Great Australian Rip Off’, the campaign seeks to expose the secret payments and incentives paid to commercial comparison websites, which drives up their cost of power, Internet and other household services.
Having watched prices soar, Teddy came out in support of the campaign, calling on his 250 thousand followers to sign the petition and help bring down household bills.
“Australian families are getting ripped off. Every year it just gets worse and worse,” Teddy said.
“Enough is enough, we’ve got to stop the rip off.”
The campaign, which was launched by consumer advocate Trond Smith in the leadup to the Federal Election, demands greater consumer protections laws to protect families from the increased cost of electricity and internet.
“We need the Government to do everything it can to bring down the cost of living,” Mr Smith said.
“People are outraged when they learn they are having to ‘absorb’ the cost of commissions they are not told about.”
Each sign–up to the campaign triggers emails to a person’s local Federal MP, the Treasurer, and Opposition Treasurer calling for commitments to support full disclosure of commissions, a mandatory code of conduct for the comparison website industry, and assurance that their party will include the campaign in election promises.
