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The National Farmers Federation (FF) has welcomed the report by the Senate Select Committee on Supermarket Prices, which they say “reveals the true cost of supermarket power and exploitative behaviour being borne by both Australian households and the national horticulture industry”.
The report, released May 9, makes 14 recommendations including that the ACCC gain powers to sell off subsidiary business interests or investments of supermarkets where it has found to engage in unconscionable conduct.
That is, a recommendation that the government being given the power to break up the supermarket duopoly held by Coles and Woolworths…