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The Good Guys debacle reveals inflation’s unexpected consequence

When inflation peaked at 7.8 per cent 18 months ago, no one could’ve predicted how it would affect some of our big brands.

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Big business needs to help win the inflation fight if it is to stop a resurgent competition regulator in its tracks.

It is no good complaining that Gina Cass-Gottlieb’s Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is “getting in the way” – which we hear big business and their advisers say all the time. Cass-Gottlieb, nearly halfway through her appointment, isn’t going to stop; if anything, the politicians and the broader public want her to go harder.

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