Issue 2007 October 13
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COMPETITION: Coalition strengthens Trade Practices Act
The big retailers are screaming over the recent Federal Government changes to the Trade Practices Act, which constitute the first serious measures to protect small businesses from unfair competition. Patrick J. Byrne reports.To put the nation’s competition laws in context, Australia has fallen behind the rest of the developed world in trade practices legislation.These inadequate laws have allowed increasing concentration of market power in the…

