Gina Cass-Gottlieb
Opinion
Aviation
Rex offered cheap and reliable flights. I knew it couldn’t last
If the government wants to do better for consumers in a cost-of-living crisis it should talk less and act more and embark on reform of the airline industry that allows competition to flourish.
- by David King
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The force behind competition queen Gina Cass-Gottlieb
ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb is working harder than she ever has in her career, and the results are showing on the scoreboard, with wins including tougher merger laws, and a $120 million penalty against Qantas this past week.
- by Anne Hyland
Watchdog cracks down on Glad garbage bags ‘greenwashing’
The manufacturer of Glad garbage bags faces potentially millions of dollars in penalties after the consumer and competition watchdog launched legal action over false claims some bags were made partly from recycled ocean plastic.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
ACCC cracks down on fake specials, dodgy online claims amid cost of living pressures
The chair of the competition and consumer watchdog has put supermarkets, airlines, banks, telcos, ecommerce players and digital platforms on notice.
- by Jessica Yun
Australia has fallen behind on merger reform, watchdog warns
The ACCC chief says the nation’s corporate merger laws are trailing those in other developed countries, and this is costing consumers.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Opinion
Corporate ethics
Corporate lawbreakers should be jailed. Imagine what their spouses would say
Why have chief executives been so confident their misdeeds would go undiscovered and unpunished? Because for a long time, it was largely true.
- by Ross Gittins
Treasurer takes on big business over mergers, market power
Jim Chalmers has asked Treasury for options to toughen competition laws to protect consumers from big companies with too much market power.
- by David Crowe
The ‘subscription traps’ that prevent customers from unsubscribing
Unused subscriptions cost the average Australian more than $1200 a year, but there’s limited legislation to stop businesses from shady practises.
- by Amber Schultz
Childcare fees grow faster than inflation, wages: ACCC report
Even after government subsidies, out-of-pocket costs have risen by 7 per cent for centre-based childcare over the past four years.
- by Rachel Clun
Consumer watchdog wants more power to bust online ‘subscription traps’
Stock countdowns and deliberately confusing website designs are also in the sights of ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb.
- by Rachel Clun
CBD
CBD
Tickets please: all aboard the ABC’s Q+A Brighton express
The national broadcaster put on free buses to get audience members from the upmarket bayside suburb to its Southbank studio.
- by Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
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