The purpose of the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct is to address harmful practices in the grocery industry stemming from an imbalance of bargaining power between supermarkets and their suppliers. This final report makes 11 recommendations for improving the code, including making it mandatory.

This paper explores the interplay between competition and data privacy. It analyses their respective objectives and examines how considerations pertaining to one policy area have been, or could be, included into the other. Furthermore, it investigates enforcement interventions and regulatory measures that could foster synergies or lead to potential challenges.

The authors of this report argue that uncertainty about the benefits and costs of industrial policies, and limited public resources, suggest that governments should prioritise areas where existing structural challenges cannot be addressed solely by markets and other government policies.

Australia's supermarket sector is one of the most concentrated in the world. A key recommendation from this inquiry is for the Australian government to amend the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to create divestiture powers specific to the supermarket sector, where a supermarket has been found to have misused their market power.

The authors of this paper argue that amid a historic inflationary period that has catalysed a cost-of-living crisis, the potential of competition law amendments that can better govern firm behaviour is garnering considerable and consistent attention from federal political parties in Canada.