Gina Cass-Gottlieb
- Editorial
- Middle East at war
The cost of Trump’s folly is displayed on our petrol bowsers
The Middle East war is spiralling out of control and Australia has no way of knowing how long the oil will last.
- The Herald's View
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- AI
AI bots could collude to fix prices and harm consumers: ACCC chair
Consumer tsar Gina Cass-Gottlieb has highlighted the risk of cartel conduct by AI-powered bots deployed by businesses.
- Elias Visontay
Up to $60k a day each: The cost of inviting execs to sit at Chalmers’ roundtable
Many of the people at the treasurer’s economic roundtable are earning six or seven figures, but there’s one whose single-day appearance is worth more than $60,000.
- Millie Muroi
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- Supermarkets
‘Price down’ supermarket specials pushed up inflation: PM
The ACCC is suing the supermarket giants, alleging their “Prices Dropped” and “Down Down” discounts weren’t really what they seemed.
- Jessica Yun, Millie Muroi and Shane Wright
- Opinion
- Aviation
Rex offered cheap and reliable flights. I knew it couldn’t last
If the government wants to do better for consumers in a cost-of-living crisis it should talk less and act more and embark on reform of the airline industry that allows competition to flourish.
- David King
The force behind competition queen Gina Cass-Gottlieb
ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb is working harder than she ever has in her career, and the results are showing on the scoreboard, with wins including tougher merger laws, and a $120 million penalty against Qantas this past week.
- Anne Hyland
Watchdog cracks down on Glad garbage bags ‘greenwashing’
The manufacturer of Glad garbage bags faces potentially millions of dollars in penalties after the consumer and competition watchdog launched legal action over false claims some bags were made partly from recycled ocean plastic.
- Sumeyya Ilanbey
ACCC cracks down on fake specials, dodgy online claims amid cost of living pressures
The chair of the competition and consumer watchdog has put supermarkets, airlines, banks, telcos, ecommerce players and digital platforms on notice.
- Jessica Yun
Australia has fallen behind on merger reform, watchdog warns
The ACCC chief says the nation’s corporate merger laws are trailing those in other developed countries, and this is costing consumers.
- Sumeyya Ilanbey
- Opinion
- Corporate ethics
Corporate lawbreakers should be jailed. Imagine what their spouses would say
Why have chief executives been so confident their misdeeds would go undiscovered and unpunished? Because for a long time, it was largely true.
- Ross Gittins