Cartel Enforcement in Australia

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Bob Baxt, Gillian McKenzie, Sep 30, 2008

Historically cartel behavior in Australia has been subject to a civil penalty regime under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (“the Act”). Since the 1974 enactment of the legislation, price fixing and similar anticompetitive contracts, arrangements, or understandings have been treated as per se illegal under the Act. However, the penalties for breaching these provisions were historica