The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is the chief competition regulator of the Government of Australia,located within the Department of the Treasury. It was established in 1995 with the amalgamation of the Australian Trade Practices Commission and the Prices Surveillance Authority to administer the Trade Practices Act 1974,which was renamed the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 on 1 January 2011. The ACCC's mandate is to protect consumer rights and business rights and obligations,to perform industry regulation and price monitoring,and to prevent illegal anti-competitive behaviour.
Woolworths Group Limited is an Australian retail company headquartered in Bella Vista,Sydney,with extensive operations throughout Australia and New Zealand. It is the largest company in Australia by revenue and the second-largest in New Zealand.
Australia Post,formally the Australian Postal Corporation,is the government business enterprise that provides postal services in Australia. The head office of Australia Post is located in Bourke Street,Melbourne,which also serves as a post office.
TPG is an Australian internet service provider that specialises in consumer and business internet services as well as mobile telephone services. As of August 2015,TPG is the second largest internet service provider in Australia and is the largest mobile virtual network operator. As such,it has over 671,000 ADSL2+ subscribers,358,000 landline subscribers and 360,000 mobile subscribers,and owns the second largest ADSL2+ network in Australia,consisting of 391 ADSL2+ DSLAMs. It also operates in New Zealand.
Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd,trading as Coles,is an Australian supermarket,retail and consumer services chain,headquartered in Melbourne as part of the Coles Group.
The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) is an Australian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Melbourne,Victoria. It is Australia's second-largest bank by assets and fourth-largest bank by market capitalisation.
Julian William Kennedy Burnside is an Australian barrister,human rights and refugee advocate,and author. He practises principally in commercial litigation,trade practices and administrative law. He is known for his staunch opposition to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers,and has provided legal counsel in a wide variety of high-profile cases. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2009,"for service as a human rights advocate,particularly for refugees and asylum seekers,to the arts as a patron and fundraiser,and to the law." He unsuccessfully stood for the Division of Kooyong at the 2019 federal election as an Australian Greens candidate,but achieved the highest vote for the Greens in the seat at a federal election and allowed the party to enter into the two-party preferred vote.
Richard J. Pratt was an Australian businessman,chairman of the privately owned company Visy Industries,and a leading figure of Melbourne society. In the year before his death,Pratt was Australia's fourth-richest person,with a personal fortune valued at A$5.48 billion.
ABC TV,formerly known as ABC1,is an Australian national public television network. It is owned and operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,and is the flagship ABC Television network. The headquarters of the ABC TV channel and the ABC are in Ultimo,an inner-city suburb of Sydney,New South Wales.
The Cabcharge account payment system was established in 1976 to provide taxi passengers a way to pay for taxi fares by non-cash means. The payment system is owned and operated by A2B Australia,an Australian Securities Exchange listed public company. In the UK and Singapore,Cabcharge is operated by subsidiaries of ComfortDelGro.
Tiger Airways Australia Pty Ltd,operating as Tigerair Australia,was an Australian low-cost airline. Founded by Tiger Airways Holdings,it commenced services in the domestic airline market on 23 November 2007 as Tiger Airways Australia. It later became a subsidiary of Virgin Australia Holdings. On 25 March 2020,Tigerair suspended all operations as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following Virgin Australian Holdings going into voluntary administration and later sold,new owner Bain Capital confirmed the brand would be retired.
The ABC Board is the body responsible for the operations of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. As of 2021,Ita Buttrose is chair;David Anderson the managing director appointed by the board;Jane Connors is a staff-elected member. The chair and other directors are chosen by the Australian Government.
John Gordon "Jack" Evans was an Australian businessman and politician who served as an Australian Democrats senator for Western Australia from 1983 to June 1985.
TPG Telecom Limited,formerly Vodafone Hutchison Australia and renamed following the merger with TPG,is an Australian telecommunications company. It is the second largest telecommunications company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. TPG Telecom is the third-largest wireless carrier in Australia,with 5.8 million subscribers as of 2020.
The Taxi Industry Inquiry or the Fels Inquiry was an inquiry commissioned in 2011 into the taxi industry and taxi services in Victoria,Australia,by the Taxi Services Commission. The inquiry was headed by Professor Allan Fels assisted by Dr David Cousins.
Rodney Graham "Rod" Sims is an Australian economist and former public servant. Sims served as chair of the Australian Competition &Consumer Commission (ACCC),Australia's competition regulator,from 1 August 2011 to 20 March 2022.
Trivago N.V.,marketed with lowercase styling as trivago,is a German technology company specializing in internet-related services and products in the hotel,lodging and metasearch fields. The company is headquartered in Düsseldorf. The American online travel company Expedia Group owns a majority of the company's stock.
Stirling Griff is an Australian former politician who was a Senator for South Australia from 2016 to 2022,representing the Nick Xenophon Team and Centre Alliance. His party changed its name from Nick Xenophon Team (NXT) led by Senator Nick Xenophon to Centre Alliance in April 2018 after Xenophon ceased to be connected with the party. He served as deputy leader of the party in the Senate until April 2018,when it adopted its current name. He was also the NXT spokesperson for health,immigration and communications. He was defeated at the 2022 federal election,having only secured 3% of the vote. His term expired on 30 June 2022.
The Trading Post was a classified advertisement newspaper first published in Melbourne in 1966,named for the generic concept of a trading post. After changing hands a number of times,in 2004,the company was bought for $636 million by Telstra. In April 2009,it ceased printing altogether and moved to an online format only.
The Warrowen massacre was an apparent mass killing of Bunurong people by a group of Kurnai people in the vicinity of present-day Brighton,Victoria,Australia. It is dated to the early 1830s,close in time to the founding of Melbourne. The killing was recorded separately several years later by William Thomas and George Augustus Robinson,based on testimony from Aboriginal sources. Thomas stated that at least 60 people had been killed. According to Robinson,the massacre contributed to the end of an entire Bunurong clan,the Yowengerre,allowing a Kurnai clan to take over their territory.
