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Look who's talking: Australia's telcos, banks and supermarkets granted exemption to cartel laws

  • Written by Sven Gallasch, Lecturer in Law, Swinburne University of Technology
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“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion,” wrote Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations (published in 1776), “but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

With the coronavirus crisis, though, Australia’s...

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