The consumer watchdog has been formally directed to investigate the supermarket sector, amid concerns Australians are being ripped off at the checkout and the farmgate. Treasurer Jim Chalmers directed the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to investigate the competitiveness of retail prices and allegations of price gouging in the supermarketContinue Reading

Anthony Albanese has delivered a fresh warning to supermarket giants, telling them the current voluntary grocery code of conduct could become mandated if they don’t do the right thing. Amid accusations supermarkets are not passing on the lower prices being paid to farmers to consumers, the government has threatened toContinue Reading

Skyrocketing supermarket prices and surging airfares have been examined in a union-backed inquiry into allegations of price-gouging by business. The nation’s peak union body, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, is currently conducting the probe which is led by former competition tsar professor Allan Fels. Fels was the inaugural chairContinue Reading