A ban on price gouging and new powers to break up supermarkets are on the table this election. Would either work?
- Written by Barbora Jedlickova, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, The University of Queensland
wisely/ShutterstockWith the federal election campaign now underway, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised that if re-elected, Labor would seek to make price gouging illegal in the supermarket sector.
A new taskforce would be set up to examine the best way to do so, drawing on the experience of other countries. The Australian Competition and...
