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The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has signed up for interagency collaboration with its ASEAN counterpart the Philippines.

Cost shifting aside, what are banks doing about digital exclusion? Not everyone has access to hip apps for real time cash transfers.

Job mobility has declined by nearly 50% since 1990, with fewer than 10% of workers finding new jobs in 2023.

Former ACCC chief Allan Fels has called on the federal government to establish a competition and prices commission.

Independent and small competitors could be forced out of the online liquor market as transaction costs of $2 create merchant sticker shock.

The ACCC calls for stronger federal childcare price monitoring that is “supported by a credible threat of intervention”.

The agreement with Woodside and Esso will supply 260PJ worth of gas to the domestic energy market over a decade.

Mechanisms will be established to identify and sanction providers who over-charge NDIS participants for support.

The Australian Public Service Commission has publicly paraded three public service agencies that have accepted the 11.2% pay offer.

Industrial action will keep hitting the APS despite a pay offer agreement as staff at Australia’s competition regulator walk off the job.

The Productivity Commission recommends the government do more to make childcare services more accessible to vulnerable families.