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New developments in Competition and Consumer Protection 7th October 2005 Ms Louise Sylvan, ACCC Deputy Chair Women Chiefs of Enterprises International Trade Practices Act update 16th September 2005 Ms Louise Sylvan, ACCC Deputy Chair Country Chief Financial Officers Forum. Competition with compassion - Australia's economic success story 30th May 2005 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) Di Yerbury Lecture Sydney The regulator’s approach to compliance: Crackdown, confrontation or compliance culture 26th May 2005 Mr David Smith, Commissioner Australian Compliance Institute Baby bath aids regulations 19th May 2005 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) Launch of Baby Bath Aids Regulations Melbourne Developments in Consumer Protection and Competition 18th February 2005 Ms Louise Sylvan, ACCC Deputy Chair Justices of the Supreme Court of Victoria Melbourne Enforcement of regulation by an independent regulator 3rd December 2004 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) Asia Pacific Infrastructure Forum Melbourne Distilling salient lessons from the complaints received by the ACCC 3rd December 2004 Rose Webb, Regional Director, NSW Law & Finance Pty Ltd Trade Practices Compliance Sydney Taxis and Trade Practices 9th November 2004 Mr John Martin, Commissioner 2004 Victorian Taxi Association State Taxi Conference Ballarat Activating competition: The consumer protection - competition interface 29th October 2004 Ms Louise Sylvan, ACCC Deputy Chair University of South Australia Trade Practices Workshop Adelaide Presentation of Annual Achievement Awards 24th September 2004 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) Australian Divisions of General Practice Network Forum 2004 Adelaide Trade practices—new developments in Australia 17th September 2004 Ms Louise Sylvan, ACCC Deputy Chair Forum of Commonwealth Agencies Consumer behaviour - cause and effect 6th September 2004 Ms Louise Sylvan, ACCC Deputy Chair Infant and Nursery Products Association of Australia Competitive challenges facing liquor stores in Australia 9th August 2004 Mr John Martin, Commissioner Australian Liquor Stores Association Annual Conference Sydney Protection for whistleblowers 25th June 2004 Ms Louise Sylvan, ACCC Deputy Chair Northern Territory Expo Competition and the Australian way of life 22nd June 2004 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) Sir Wallace Kyle Oration 2004 Trade Practices Act and The Crown 11th June 2004 Mr Bruce Brown, General Manager, Legal Accounting At The Top Conference 2004 Competition and the Australian way of life 31st May 2004 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) Canberra & region focus on business 2004 Understanding the focus and expectations of the ACCC 25th May 2004 Ms Louise Sylvan, ACCC Deputy Chair LexisNexis In-House Counsel Conference Address to launch Miller's Annotated Trade Practices Act 25th anniversary edition 29th March 2004 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) Sydney Address to the Real Estate Institute of Victoria 25th March 2004 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) Real Estate Institute of Victoria, Melbourne Protecting and promoting consumer interests: Where have we been and where are we going? Business, consumer and regulator perspectives 15th March 2004 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) National Consumers Day Consumer regulation - How do we know it is effective? 15th March 2004 Ms Louise Sylvan, ACCC Deputy Chair National Consumer Congress The ACCC in 2004: Advancing Australia Fair and Competitive! 26th February 2004 Ms Louise Sylvan, ACCC Deputy Chair Law Institute of Victoria's Presidents Luncheon Advance Australia fair and competitive! 19th February 2004 Ms Louise Sylvan, ACCC Deputy Chair Country CFO Forum Australia's competition and consumer law: ensuring compliance and enforcing the law 16th February 2004 Ms Louise Sylvan, ACCC Deputy Chair Key Media's Trade Practices and Competition Law Conference Industry regulation - can voluntary self-regulation ever be effective? 25th November 2003 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) Centre for Corporate Public Affairs 2003 Oration Advance Australia competitive and fair: A perspective of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 14th November 2003 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) 2003 Melbourne Economic and Social Outlook Conference Balancing the competitive pressures 12th November 2003 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) Conference: National Press Club, Canberra The Building of an Island Nation: Some thoughts about Change, Competition and the Australian Way of Life 23rd October 2003 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) 2003 Alfred Deakin Lecture Some thoughts on economics and regulation 2nd October 2003 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) 32nd Conference of Economists, Canberra Competition and the nation's supermarket trolley: A perspective of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 16th September 2003 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) Australian Food and Grocery Council Industry 2003 Annual Dinner A new Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission: A change in substance or a change in style? 18th July 2003 Mr Graeme Samuel, Chairman (2003-2011) Melbourne Press Club Competition policy: A report card for the last 12 years and an agenda for the future 30th June 2003 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman National Press Club The future of competition policy - 10 October 1991 30th June 2003 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman National Press Club Issues in competition law: A perspective of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 12th June 2003 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Queensland Press Forum Reflections of a competition regulator 28th May 2003 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Political Science Series - ANU Research School of Social Sciences Intellectual property and competition 6th December 2002 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Conference Melbourne Business School The future of competition law in Australia 5th December 2002 Mr Ross Jones, Speech to the Melbourne Institute Trade practices compliance: Current issues and new perspectives 25th November 2002 Ms Jennifer McNeill, Gilbert and Tobin Competition Law Seminar Competition law and the public interest: A perspective of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 11th November 2002 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Monash University Corporate Governance Forum Protecting competition and consumer rights: a perspective of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 7th November 2002 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman New South Wales Legal Aid Commission Civil Law Conference Building a modern Trade Practices Act: A trans-Tasman analysis 18th September 2002 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Speech to the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research Towards a modern Trade Practices Act - A regulator's perspective 12th September 2002 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Speech to NSW Press Club Reforming Australia's infrastructure 14th August 2002 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman National Infrastructure Summit - Melbourne Should whistleblowing be encouraged and protected, and is it? 6th August 2002 Mr Sitesh Bhojani, Transparency International Australia Presents: "Whistleblowing: Betrayal or Public Duty" - Sydney The Review of the Trade Practices Act: issues concerning the substance of the law, and process and accountability 28th June 2002 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Speech to the Australian Financial Review Leaders Forum - Sydney Retail, groceries and food: A perspective of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 11th May 2002 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Speech to The Food and Grocery Council - Sanctuary Cove. The Trade Practices Act: are we becoming a Branch Office Economy 4th April 2002 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman The 2002 Melbourne Institute Economic and Social Outlook Conference -Towards Opportunity & Prosperity The marketplace and regulation 18th October 2001 Mr Sitesh Bhojani, SOCAP 11th Annual Conference Collaborative commerce 20th August 2001 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Melbourne Business - A Day with the Leaders - Collaborative Commerce Monitoring the impact of recent & future capital finance & investment decisions 24th July 2001 Mr Ross Jones, Financial Review Conference Current issues at the ACCC 10th July 2001 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Law Institute of Victoria President's Luncheon Competition policy: governance issues - what are the alternative structures? 20th June 2001 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman The Future of Canadian Competition Policy in the 21st Century Courts - their role in regulatory arrangements 9th June 2001 Mr Alan Ducret, Australian Law Reform Commission - Penalties: Policy, Principles & Practice in Government Regulation How the ACCC is changing the shape of competition in Australia 17th May 2001 Mr Ross Jones, Address to SPICAust Address to continuing legal education seminar on intellectual property 11th May 2001 Mr Ross Jones, Continuing Legal Education Queensland Law Society Seminar Difficulties between the pro-competitive community and Intellectual Property 11th May 2001 Mr Ross Jones, Address to Continuing Legal Education Seminar on Intellectual Property - Continuing Legal Education Queensland Law Society Seminar What is the regulatory policy agenda for 2001 and beyond? 30th April 2001 Mr Rod Shogren, Energy Regulation and the Role of Regulators - Novotel Melbourne on Collins Trade Practices Act and retail tenancy - is it really working? 27th February 2001 Mr John Martin, Commissioner ARA Managing the Asset Retail Tenancy Forum 2001 Freight rates and the ACCC 18th August 2000 Mr John Martin, Commissioner Natroad 2000 Annual Conference: Coping with Tax and Trucking Recent developments in the role of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission 15th August 2000 Mr John Martin, Commissioner Northern Territory Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Alice Springs The Trade Practices Act: The past, the present and the future 27th May 2000 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Trade Practices and Consumer Law Conference View on representative actions under the product liability provisions of the Trade Practices Act 7th April 2000 Mr Hank Spier, Chief Executive Officer Australian Insurance Law Association, National Conference How has the scope and range of economic regulation changed for the private sector in recent years and what is the outlook for the future? 6th April 2000 Mr Allan Asher , Deputy Chairperson National institute for goverance Public and private sector governance in australia Exploring the changing boundaries conference The role and functions of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 4th April 2000 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman The Australian Retailers Association 1st Annual retail congress Trade Practices Act and the food sector 2nd March 2000 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Outlook 2000, Abare outlook conference Launch of Travel and Tourism and the TPA 4th November 1999 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman National Council meeting, Tourism Council Australia Level 3, Melbourne Convention Centre Cnr Spencer and Flinders Streets Melbourne The role of competition principles in intellectual property 22nd July 1999 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc. Victorian Branch Privatisation forum 19th July 1999 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Melbourne Launch of Fair Game or Fair Go 9th July 1999 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Melbourne Access regimes in the resources industries 9th June 1999 Mr Allan Asher , Deputy Chairperson Joint Seminar Law Council of Australia Resources Law Committee and The Australian Mining & Petroleum Law Association "Access Regimes in the Resources Industries" The grocery industry and the Trade Practices Act 27th May 1999 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Australian Food And Grocery Council The role of the ACCC 19th April 1999 Hank Spier, General Manager, ACCC 1999 Defence & Industry Study Course The impact of competition policy and law on higher education in Australia 24th November 1998 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Australasian Association for Institutional Research 1998 International Conference The ACCC and Competition Policy 19th November 1998 Mr Sitesh Bhojani, Australian Society Of Certified Practising Accountants Act Congress 1998 Aspects of a national competition policy 15th October 1998 David Lieberman, Commissioner Real Estate Institute of Australia - Annual Policy Conference Win/win with the ACCC 13th October 1998 Mr Allan Asher , Deputy Chairperson Allen Allen & Hemsley - Trade Practices Seminar Series The role of the ACCC 24th September 1998 Mr Allan Asher , Deputy Chairperson Australian Collectors Association The Australian competition policy reforms 3rd June 1998 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman The Second Oslo Competition Conference - Oslo - Norway Competition in the film industry 17th June 1997 Mr Allan Asher , Deputy Chairperson NATO 97 Conference Heritage Park Resort, Bowral National competition policy and directors' duties under the Trade Practices Act 1974 1st May 1997 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman Australian Institute of Company Directors Western Australia Division Luncheon Public benefits under the Trade Practices Act 11th April 1997 Mr Sitesh Bhojani, Joint Conference - Competition Law and the Professions Competition policy reforms 3rd April 1997 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman ACT Public Service Seminar - Competition Policy The essential elements of complaint handling: A discussion of the Australian Standard on complaints handling (AS4269) 26th March 1997 Bill Dee, Chair Drafting Committee of the Australian Standard on Complaint Handling N/A Australia's competition policy reforms—room document 3rd February 1997 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman OECD CLP Committee Competition policy - implications of the Hilmer Report for the dairy industry 4th December 1996 Ms Rhonda Smith, Commissioner AIDC 1996 Annual General Meeting Application of part IV of the Trade Practices Act to local government 30th July 1996 Mr Michael Cosgrave , Regional Director Application of National Competition Policy to Local Government Seminar Decision making at the Centre 19th April 1996 Professor Allan Fels, Chairman European University Institute Workshop on the Implementation of Antitrust Rules in a "federal" Context Printer friendly version Notify me... 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