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Following the international trend towards criminalizing cartel offenses, the Australian Senate passed a bill on June 16 that amends the key antitrust law in Australia, the Trade Practices Act 1974, by introducing parallel civil and criminal sanctions on cartel conduct.

The newsletter includes summaries and links to media releases and law reports relating to competition and consumer law.

Even for businesses under scrutiny, there are ways to foster respectful and constructive relationships with regulators.

This new Bill ostensibly supports small businesses to stand up against anti-competitive behaviour of multinationals.

The passing of the Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act (No.2) 2010 (Cth) completes a major reform unifying Australia’s consumer protection legislation. This will affect all businesses that transact with consumers.

The requirements for defects warranties given by manufacturers, retailers and service providers to consumers will be regulated from 1 January 2012

The national competition regulator, the ACCC, has begun to flex its muscles and for the first time has exercised its new power to "name and shame" businesses which it suspects have misled the public and pose a real threat to unsuspecting consumers.

The ACCC has released guidelines help businesses avoid making false or misleading to consmers about the carbon price.

Under new, updated rules, this price fixing conduct would have been caught and the airlines would likely have lost.

Recent amendments to the Australian Trade Practices Act have created a separate offence of predatory pricing which is not dependent upon a corporation having a dominant position in a market or substantial market power.

The ACCC has called on the Government to rein in the immense market power of digital media giants, Google and Facebook.

The NSW Fair Trading Minister, Linda Burney, has recently announced that up to 40 investigators will be attending open house inspections and auctions to compare advertised prices with sale prices.

The ACCC quite openly declared its interest in "green"/environmentally friendly claims in February 2008 when it released its guide entitled "Green marketing and the Trade Practices Act", and it seems that this interest continues.

The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission's guide to the unfair contract terms law, which explains the new unfair contracts terms in the Australian Consumer Law, has now been released.

CDR will allow Australians to access their financial data and aims to encourage more competition in the banking sector.

Coca-Cola South Pacific Pty Ltd gave section 87B undertakings to the ACCC on 2 April 2009 in response to concerns about advertising during October 2008 entitled, "Kerry Armstrong on Motherhood & Myth-Busting".

This article includes summaries of recent cases involving the ACCC, cartels and misleading and deceptive conduct.

The Federal Court has granted the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission an injunction and made orders that Nudie Foods Australia Pty Ltd publish corrective notices on its websites and institute a training and trade practices compliance program for misleading labelling on its packaging for Nudie fruit juices.