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Submission: Competition and Consumer Legislation Amendment Bill 2010

by Ken on June 7, 2010

Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics detailing NARGA’s concerns that the independent grocery sector is losing market share to the extent that their wholesaling and distribution networks will become unviable. Read More…

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Access of Small Business to Finance

by Ken Henrick on April 14, 2010

A review of current bank interest rates as regularly advertised in national dailies shows a substantial difference in the rates being charged to home owners as opposed to businesses.  This is in spite of the fact that business loans are often secured through mortgages on private property suggesting that the risk profile is not all [...]

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Plastic Shopping Bags and Reusable Bags – A Comparison

6 March 2010

Comparison of factors that affect the ‘greenness’ of both plastic disposable and reusable shopping bags, demonstrating that reusable bags may not be as environmentally friendly as many people believe. Plastic Bags Document

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Current Issues in Australian Competition Policy – Creeping Acquisitions

19 February 2010

Australian consumers will be exposed to increasingly uncompetitive market sharing by the two largest supermarket chains if nothing is done to address current trends.  Download (Word format).

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Current Issues in Australian Competition Policy – Anti-Competitive Price Discrimination

18 February 2010

Many other countries have legal prohibitions against anti-competitive price discrimination  -  where a company sells identical product to different customers at different prices.  Australia does not. Download (Word format)

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Submission to Treasury – Unconscionable Conduct Issues Paper 2009

18 December 2009

To give affected parties the confidence to bring a complaint of unconscionable conduct to the attention of the regulator they need to be sure that their complaint is taken seriously, that it will be acted on and that they will not be left to the mercy of the aggressor should the regulator decide to investigate [...]

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Submission to the Senate Economics References Committee Inquiry into the GroceryChoice Website

4 September 2009

NARGA submission to the Senate ERC Inquiry identifying problems with several aspects of the GroceryChoice website, including both methodological issues and seemingly arbitrary ‘regions’, as well the compliance costs to be borne by businesses and passed on to consumers. Read the Submission

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Treasury Submission: Creeping Acquisitions – The Way Forward

29 May 2009

NARGA submission to the Treasury Competition and Consumer Policy Division Creeping Acquisitions.doc

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Submission to NSW Dept of Health – Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2008 and Public Health (Tobacco) Regulation 2009

6 May 2009

In this submission to the NSW Department of Health, NARGA questions the validity or necessity of government changes to tobacco regulations, in the absence of any properly conducted regulatory impact assessment. Download (Word format)

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Predatory pricing amendment to be applied to petrol discount dockets?

9 October 2007

Former ACCC Chairman Allan Fels and veteran journalist Fred Brenchley have written a commentary on the recent predatory pricing amendment to the Trade Practices Act, published in today’s Australian Financial Review (online by subscription only). The authors argue that the new predatory pricing provision should be applied to the petrol shopper dockets schemes, which “have [...]

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