Consumer and competition issues in the supermarket sector and essential services are among the ACCC’s compliance and enforcement priorities for the year ahead.
Speaking at a Committee for Economic Development Australia (CEDA) event...
The Australian government has announced that it will direct the ACCC to conduct an inquiry into Australia’s supermarket sector.
The year-long inquiry will examine the pricing practices of the supermarkets, along with the...
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...
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...
MEDIA RELEASE 05.09.2022
Despite the six-month cut in fuel excise reducing retail petrol prices in the June quarter 2022, the ACCC’s latest quarterly petrol monitoring report shows this could not prevent real (inflation adjusted) retail...
The ACCC has released its latest petrol monitoring report which confirms that in the days and weeks following the fuel excise cut and that the subsequent increase to prices was a result...
ACCC monitoring of petrol prices has found significant falls in retail prices in the major capital cities a week after the cut in fuel excise came into effect.
"The fuel excise cut, announced...
