The election and competition law and policy
It’s federal election time again and time to consider the respective policy positions of each of the major parties. The key area of differentiation to date has been in relation to the introduction of an effects test for misuse of market power. This has been supported by the Government and the Greens but is opposed by the Labor Party. More recently the Labor party has indicated it would ‘ensure that competition policy does more to ameliorate the growing economic gap in our society’….