ACCC
- Updated
- Recall
Amazon, eBay, Kogan ordered to halt sales of potentially deadly toys
Australia’s consumer watchdog has ordered online retailers to halt sales of a range of toys and games products - including chess sets - marketed for children that contain potentially deadly magnets if swallowed.
- Elias Visontay
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‘Should be illegal’: BTS fans livid over Ticketmaster’s ‘very predatory’ hidden prices
The global ticketing platform, found to have an illegal monopoly in the US, has infuriated some of the most dedicated and mobilised K-pop fans in the world.
- Jessica Yun
- Opinion
- Melbourne Airport
Melbourne Airport is degrading our experience of that last hug goodbye. We’ve seen how this story ends
We deserve a world-class gateway to Melbourne, not a world-class car park from a facility determined to gouge us and make our lives more miserable.
- Cara Waters
- Opinion
- Opinion
Businesses, like runners, thrive on competition – at least, most do
It’s not just customers who like to see companies fighting for their money. Many businesses like the rivalry, too.
- Millie Muroi
Cake dust recalled across Australia as young boy returns home after coma
“We’re looking forward to sleeping in our own bed tonight and spending some much needed quality time as a family,” the boy’s mother said.
- William Davis
First Qantas, now Coles: the star corporate lawyer beating her one-time clients
Kevin Rudd implied that Gina Cass-Gottlieb would be a patsy for the corporate world she had represented as a lawyer when she came to the ACCC. The accusation hasn’t held up.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Analysis
- Retail
The messy task of calculating the harm Coles caused shoppers
A diabolical legal process is set to play out as huge teams of lawyers attempt to quantify damages that Coles may have to pay after its loss in court this week.
- Elias Visontay
- Opinion
- Supermarkets
Coles has been caught red-handed. But don’t discount this pricing loophole
The court found that Coles had misled the public. But retailers can get around the ruling by keeping certain information from shoppers.
- Bea Sherwood
- Updated
- Supermarkets
Coles to face fines ‘in the hundreds of millions’ after discounts ruled a sham
In a landmark decision, Justice Michael O’Bryan found the discounts were based on previous prices that were offered for too short a period to be considered real.
- Elias Visontay, Isabel McMillan and Jack Gramenz
- Opinion
- Governance
This concept should turn capitalists from top dogs to lapdogs
What economists don’t tell you about how the economy works. Here, I reveal all.
- Ross Gittins