Posts tagged "competition policy"

A sharp division has emerged between the ACCC and Competition Minster Andrew Leigh over the need for action to improve the performance of the Australian economy.

Outgoing ACCC chair Rod Sims' competition policy recommendations are similar to reforms tabled in the US, but the views of his successor are not yet known.

The proposed appointment of Gina Cass-Gottlieb as chair of the ACCC next year is welcome, as is the appointment of Liza Carver as ACCC enforcement commissioner.

You might get the impression that I think Rod Sims did a pretty good job. Well you’d be wrong — he has done an amazing job, writes Peter Strong.

The Office of the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO) is 12 months old. It actually turned one on 11 March bu…

By Lindy Edwards, UNSW Australia

As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull turns to the task of governing Australia he faces a devilishly diffi…

It’s not often the small business community can say it’s happy with Canberra.

Whether it’s easing Sunday penalty rates or convincing th…

The Turnbull government has decided to throw its support behind introducing an effects test into Australian competition law, twelve months …

Small businesses will have fewer financial disincentives to take on big companies if Labor’s answer to the effects test becomes law.

The…

If there is a ‘root and branch’ review of competition laws after the next election, it should be led by a group of sexagenarians. That is, p…

When large corporations can shrug off financial penalties and seem indifferent to reputational damage because they’ve captured the consumers…

Can rivals work together? Increasingly, they do: The Australian Associated Press, or AAP, is jointly owned by Australia’s major newspape…