This report focuses on competition in the Australian grocery sector. Specifically, the report asks whether a lack of competition is an explanation for the concerns identified above. The report analyses the extent to which competition (or a lack of it) has contributed to increased grocery prices. The supply chain and bargaining power of Coles, Woolworths...

In this report on the take up of broadband access services on Telstra's copper network the ACCC provides details of the take up of these broadband access services between metropolitan, regional and rural areas. The data shows three quarters of these services and the bulk of unconditioned local loop services (ULLS) and line sharing services...

The water market rules form a key component of the Water Act 2007, which creates new institutional and governance arrangements to address the sustainability and management of water resources in the Murray-Darling Basin. The rules will ensure that policies or administrative requirements of operators of irrigation infrastructure who hold a group water access entitlement on...

2006-07 saw the highest level of investment in telecommunications in the ten years since the introduction of open competition, according to this report. The period was also significant in terms of take-up of regulated unbundled services, with the number of unbundled lines increasing to over half a million by 30 June 2007.Under Part XIB, Division...

This report looks at regulation of the DDAS and ISDN services in regional areas and outlines an extension of the declarations of these services until 30 June 2009 or a further 12 months from the expiry date of the current declaration. The ACCC considers that both the DDAS and ISDN services are becoming outdated, legacy...