Most Recent
Building materials manufacturer the Borg Group has been given the all-clear by the competition regulatory to buy two plants from Australia's largest supplier of wood products.
A federal court judge has ordered Australian computer retailer MSY Technology to cough up $750,000 for misrepresenting consumers rights to remedies on faulty products.
A new report calls for an overhaul of mandatory product standards, saying reforms would increase competition and lead to annual savings of $350 million.
The trial against three of Australia's biggest banks over alleged interest rate rigging was pushed back again on Wednesday after lawyers for National Australia Bank and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group told the Federal Court they were still in settlement talks with the securities regulator.
A family-owned South Australian wine maker has asked the Australian consumer regulator to bless a joint marketing effort with other wine producers, including Yalumba and Brown Brothers, to help sell wine through online food delivery service Deliveroo.
The Australian Competition Tribunal takes centre stage again this week in the long-running battle by wagering group Tabcorp to merge with lotto giant Tatts.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission could get more teeth under a new proposal by a Turnbull government taskforce released Tuesday, with penalties for corporate crime tripling from $1 million to $3 million.
Australia's consumer regulator raked in sizable penalties in the past financial year, winning $41 million in competition and consumer protection matters combined. And with newly passed laws that give it more teeth, the ACCC could be set to inspire even greater fear in the coming year.
Domestic roaming is not the answer to sub-par mobile phone coverage in regional Australia, the competition watchdog has said in a big win for Telstra.
The body representing Australian pork producers has asked the competition regulator for the OK to make its quality pork certification conditional on the use of an independent, third-party auditing company.