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Category : Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Chemist Warehouse to become country’s largest pharmacy group after ACCC approves $8.8 billion deal

Discount pharmacy retailer Chemist Warehouse will be allowed to merge with Sigma Healthcare to create an $8.8 billion pharmaceutical giant after being approved

Australia’s small-scale farmers are ‘meat in a market concentration sandwich’

We hear a lot about consumers getting screwed by Australia's supermarket duopoly, but how do you think farmers feel?Andrew Leigh, the Assistant Minister for Com

‘Egregious and unacceptable’: Qantas agrees to $120 million settlement for selling tickets on cancelled flights

In short: Qantas will pay a $100 million penalty for misleading customers by selling tickets to flights that had already been cancelled.Affected Qantas domestic