Biggest overhaul in 50 years of Australia’s merger laws

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LAURA TINGLE, PRESENTER: The immense cost-of-living pressures faced by Australian households have put an everyday face on the issue of competition policy.

LAURA TINGLE: But beyond the white-hot issue of supermarket prices, Treasurer Jim Chalmers is following in the footsteps of previous Labor governments, going back to Whitlam, and trying to inject some serious competition into an economy in which industries are so dominated by duopolies or monopolies.

JAMES THOMSON, AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW: Now we will have one process. Every merger above a certain threshold, and we expect that threshold will be set fairly low, will need to be notified, mandatorily notified to the ACCC. JIM CHALMERS: Most mergers are good mergers where there are mergers which are looking for scale or for technological improvements or sometimes in relation to their workforces.

There are different kinds of businesses forming at different paces, and so what we need to do is we need to make sure that our competition policy settings keep up with change in the economy more broadly and when you've got a more competitive economy, you are more likely to give consumers more choices at fairer prices, and that's really what's motivating us here.

JIM CHALMERS: We have taken a really consultative approach when it comes to landing these reforms and we will consult further when it comes to the thresholds. JIM CHALMERS: Well, a couple of things about that.

 

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