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Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and Metcash (IGA) will face massive penalties under the revamped and mandatory code of conduct.

Woolworths and Coles face billion-dollar fines under stronger grocery code

The new maximum penalties – up to $5 billion for Woolworths and $3.8 billion for Coles – are designed to protect farmers and food suppliers in their dealings with the big supermarkets.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Craig Emerson has recommended considerable fines for supermarkets that break a proposed code of conduct.

Everyone seems to be a victim in the supermarket review

While Woolworths and Coles point the finger at the behaviour of other big retailers, it’s a brain twister as to how giving suppliers more help will benefit customers at the checkout.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Woolworths says it sells Australian flags year-round but will no longer be selling additional merchandise for Australia Day.

Retailer, business groups hit back at Dutton’s call for Woolworths boycott

Farmers, meanwhile, said the government was failing to ensure primary producers and households were not being ripped off by the big supermarkets.

  • Olivia Ireland and Mike Foley
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned supermarkets to pass savings on to consumers.

What is the supermarkets’ code of conduct?

The government has warned supermarkets to pass savings on to shoppers. Can the sector’s code of conduct make that happen?

  • Olivia Ireland
Anthony Albanese says farmers are providing produce at cheaper levels, but that isn’t being passed on to consumers.

‘Not good enough’: Albanese warns supermarkets to lower prices

As anger rises about high food and vegetable prices, the government says it could intervene to bring prices down.

  • Matthew Knott
Mitch Catlin was a trendsetter before his shortlived career in state politics. Here he is, pictured at the Lexus marquee on Derby Day, 2018.

Back in fashion: Life after politics suits Mitch Catlin

The former chief of staff to the former Liberal leader stepped out in style at Australian Fashion Week.

  • Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
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The former Labor MP worked on the lyrics that included 'no Whyalla wipeout' for several days, and after his performance, he was described as a circus clown who needed singing lessons.
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The time Craig Emerson burst into song

The former Labor MP worked on the lyrics that included 'no Whyalla wipeout' for several days, and after his performance, he was described as a circus clown who needed singing lessons.

Orwell adopted his son Richard in 1944. He died when the boy was six.

George Orwell, me and the longest suicide note in Labor history

After Labor’s drubbing in the 2019 election, I was drafted to help rewrite its policy platform. Here’s how it happened.

  • Dennis Glover
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese.

Albanese’s slimmed down policy platform lashed by LGBTI community

Equality campaigners have lashed Anthony Albanese’s move to strip back Labor’s policy platform ahead of the next election by removing almost 40 references to LGBTIQ rights.

  • Rob Harris
Prime Minister Scott Morrison during Question Time at Parliament House

Mansplaining is rife in federal Parliament, but do voters care?

A Labor schism over climate change took the heat off the Coalition's ongoing woman problem, as exposed by Four Corners.

  • Jacqueline Maley

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