Tag: Gina Cass-Gottlieb

ACCC highlights supermarkets in 2024 priorities

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...

ACCC to examine supermarket prices and competition

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...

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...

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...

International oil prices drove petrol prices higher despite excise cut

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...

ACCC: Fuel excise cut was passed on

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...

Petrol retailers starting to pass through fuel excise cut

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...
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