A legal expert explains the allegations against Amazon Australia and US – and why the new case is already making global headlines.
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Showing one product, but pairing it with the price of a different product, is common on online shopping sites. It’s not just wasting your time: it can be illegal.
This court decision will have huge ripple effects right across Australian retail – and petrol retailers in particular should be on notice.
Here’s what you need to know about the different types of cover. And if your claim is rejected, what to do next.
Brands don’t always deliver what they promise. Regulation needs to focus on preventing harm rather than managing fallout.
Virgin is now better positioned to return to international markets and give Qantas real competition.
Increasing competition in the market is the only viable way to get Australian domestic airfares to fall in the long term. That’s unlikely to happen anytime soon.
A push to overhaul laws to stamp out land banking is part of a Government bid to crack down on anti-competitive and unconscionable conduct by supermarkets.
The competition watchdog reported hearing ‘concerning’ reports from suppliers about being paid prices below the cost of production but having ‘little choice but to agree to highly unfavourable terms’.
Sustainability extends far beyond the environment. But one of its most important pillars – social – has been left out of proposed guidelines for responsible business collaborations.
On one hand, the government has just waved through one of the biggest banking mergers of the last 20 years. On the other, they’ve been waving the big stick at Australia’s supermarket oligopoly.
The Emerson review could have recommended binding arbitration and giving courts the power to force supermarket chains to divest stores, but what it has recommended will put the big chains on notice.
The UK is about to force banks to reimburse payments made “because of deception by fraudsters”. Australia’s government isn’t keen.
All proposed mergers above a yet-to-be-determined threshold will have to be reported to the ACCC. It’ll have to give a yes or no within 30 days.
US courts have had the power to break up badly behaving corporations for more than a century. There’s a bill before the Australian Senate that would give our courts the same power.
Deepfake scams are on the rise – but can their victims claim compensation? The legal landscape is still developing.
New research finds Australian industries are becoming concentrated with greater power to charge high prices. Unlike US firms, Australian firms are not required to report merger plans to authorities.
There’s no excuse for colluding not to complete on fees, but the time-consuming and complicated bidding process for design work encourages it.
I graphed the average online rate for a $10,000 deposit against the Reserve Bank’s cash rate, going back to 2010. After seeing what that graph reveals, you’ll want to call your bank.
There are good grounds to argue the competition watchdog, or federal treasurer Jim Chalmers, should be vetoing the deal.
Top contributors
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Professor Allan Fels, Professor of Law, Economics and Business at the University of Melbourne and Monash University., The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law (consumer protections and credit law), The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow, Monash University
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Professor, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer, Department Chair, Swinburne Law School, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Finance, RMIT University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Law, University of Newcastle
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Visiting Fellow and Director – Micro heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Performance program, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Historian, Southern Cross University