The big supermarket corporations are ruthlessly using their market power to crush farmers, squeeze their workers, and price gouge shoppers.
It has to end.
That’s why this week we introduced laws that would create the power to break up the duopoly.
Too many people have been forced to skip meals, eat less healthy foods or go without other essentials just to afford to survive.
These laws would give the ACCC the power to apply to the courts for divestiture when corporations are misusing their market power.
These laws are called ‘Divestiture laws’ – and they exist in many other countries.
It’s time Australia had them too.