The ACCC\u2019s decision to take Woolworths and Coles to court for price gouging has highlighted Labor\u2019s complete inaction on the corporate villains who caused an inflation crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese supermarket giants have been caught exploiting consumers under the cover of high inflation, and using fake discount claims to rake in profits,\u201d Greens Economic Justice Spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is exactly why the Greens have introduced bills to the Parliament to crack down on corporate price gouging and break up the supermarket duopoly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cColes and Woolworths have exploited a national crisis to overcharge people. This is price gouging, plain and simple.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTheir behaviour is maliciously deceitful and utterly contemptuous of Australian shoppers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey could never have engaged in this behaviour if they did not have market dominance and price gouging had been illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSurely now Labor has to stop running interference for Coles and Woolworths and join the Greens to crack down on corporate price gouging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Greens\u2019 bills would give the ACCC real power to stop this type of behaviour.\u201d
\u201cToday\u2019s revelations show Labor has been asleep at the wheel on this issue. They are protecting their corporate mates while Australians suffer.\u201d
\u201cThese companies have used their market dominance to relentlessly profiteer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s time to break them up and pass anti-price gouging laws to protect Australians from this kind of exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Greens have the solutions on the table to end this kind of behaviour and put more power into the hands of shoppers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor needs to stop siding with these fundamentally dishonest corporations and work with us to pass these critical reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The ACCC\u2019s decision to take Woolworths and Coles to court for price gouging has highlighted Labor\u2019s complete inaction on the corporate villains who caused an inflation crisis. \u201cThese supermarket giants have been caught exploiting consumers under the cover of high inflation, and using fake discount claims to rake in profits,\u201d Greens Economic Justice Spokesperson Senator … Continue reading “ACCC\u2019s supermarket price gouging case exposes Labor\u2019s inaction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29239,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29238\/revisions\/29239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}