In early June 2007 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), via its ongoing monitoring of petrol prices, detected a substantial divergence between movements in domestic petrol prices and movements in the international benchmark price for refined petrol.

This report details competitive safeguards in the Australian telecommunications industry and prices paid by Australian consumers for telecommunications services during the 2005-06 year.

This report details competitive safeguards in the Australian telecommunications industry and prices paid by Australian consumers for telecommunications services during the 2005-06 year.

The Australian broadband network continues to grow rapidly despite the current "noise and bluster" about telecommunications competition and access regulation, according to the ACCC chair, Graeme Samuel, in this speech at the ATUG Annual Conference in Sydney.

With convergence potentially opening up a vast array of new channels for the distribution of audio visual and print entertainment, news, information and opinion, the challenge for the ACCC will be to promote competition and not allow incumbents to impede the development of competitive choices for consumers, argues Graeme Samuel in this speech to the...