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Retail sector increases accessibility of ‘pop up’ retailing code

The retail industry’s Casual Mall Licensing Code of Practice has become more accessible, with the Code’s governance group releasing Fact Sheets translated into Arabic, Hindi, Simplified Chinese, and Vietnamese. The Code sets the...

Lactalis fined for Dairy Code breaches

Lactalis Australia has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay $950,000 in penalties for contravening the Dairy Code of Conduct. The Dairy Code, which came into effect on 1 January 2020, is...

Businesses urged to back up sustainability claims

The ACCC is urging businesses to track and substantiate claims they make about environmental sustainability in a bid to stamp out ‘greenwashing’. On July 14, the ACCC released draft guidelines about sustainability claims...

Diesel prices down, petrol prices stable in March quarter

Retail diesel prices dropped “significantly” in the March quarter while petrol prices remained broadly stable, according to the ACCC’s latest petrol monitoring report. Quarterly average retail diesel prices in Australia’s five largest cities...

International factors kept diesel prices significantly higher than petrol prices

Petrol prices increased slightly and diesel prices remained significantly higher than petrol prices in the December quarter 2022, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC’s) latest quarterly petrol monitoring report. Quarterly...

Petrol prices fell in the September quarter for the first time in almost two years

For the first time in almost two years, average retail petrol prices in Australia’s five largest cities fell in the latest quarter, dropping by 10.3 cents per litre (cpl) from the June...

Fuel excise reset

During his Budget speech on Tuesday 29 March 2022, the then Federal Treasurer (the Hon. Josh Frydenberg MP) announced that the Federal fuel excise would be halved from midnight on 30 March...

Businesses need to be prepared to back up their environmental claims

MEDIA RELEASE 20.09.2022 Businesses need to be ready to substantiate any environmental or sustainability claims when marketing their goods and services, ACCC Deputy Chair Delia Rickard said. In a speech to the Sydney Morning...
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