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08 Apr 2020

Managing the impacts of COVID-19 disruption on consumers and business speech

ACCC Chair Rod Sims spoke with a group of 70 CEOs and senior executives from a range of companies across Australasia about how the ACCC’s priorities have shifted to respond to the impact of COVID-19 on consumers and businesses. 
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Speech
15 Mar 2012

Keynote address Consumer Rights 50 Years on

Chairman Rod Sims speaking at the Australian World Consumers' Day event
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Speech
09 Feb 2012

Australian Consumer Law – Reflections on the First Anniversary of the ACL speech

ACCC Chairman Rod Sims speaks to the Law Society of New South Wales on the first anniversary of the Australian Consumer Law
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Speech
15 Jun 2011

Collins Street sleeper agent or Castro’s right-hand man? address to the National Press Club 2011

Outgoing ACCC Chairman Graeme Samuel discusses his achievements and points to future challenges
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Speech
12 Mar 2009

Consumer protection—new challenges and opportunities address

The Australian Consumer Law reforms will strengthen key consumer protection regulations in Australia.
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Speech
25 Jun 2008

Delivering for Australian consumers: making a good Act better address to the National Press Club 2008

ACCC Chairman, Mr Graeme Samuel, outlines the necessary reforms to Australia's competition laws that offer to provide real, long-term benefits to the public, well in excess of those that can be achieved through short-term measures.
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Speech
24 May 2008

Recent and foreshadowed reforms of the Trade Practices Act address

The proposed reforms to section 46 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 would provide the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission with the tools it needed to vigorously protect competition while ensuring that the basic rights of those affected were not trampled in the process.
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Speech
15 Mar 2007

The foundations of good consumer protection policy: strong law, vigorous enforcement and the educated consumer address

While marketplaces are changing, the issues for consumers are in fact similar to the types of issues that raised concerns when the Trade Practices Act was introduced in 1974.
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Speech
27 Oct 2004

ACCC interface with the medical profession - A prescription for good practice speech

"The ACCC is committed to continuing work with the medical profession so that doctors understand their rights and obligations under the TPA so that they can get on with their important business of practising medicine, confident that their activities don’t breach the competition and fair trading laws."
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Speech
11 Sep 2004

A prescription for good practice speech

All medical professionals need to be aware of their rights and obligations under the Trade Practices Act.
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Speech
26 Aug 2004

A prescription for good practice speech

In recent years there has been a fair bit of confusion about just what the Trade Practices Act requires of doctors and the medical profession in general.
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Speech
25 Aug 2004

The role of the ACCC in Australia's new regulatory regime speech

There is no evidence to suggest that Australia's regulatory framework is deterring investment in regulated utilities.
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Speech
15 Mar 2004

Protecting and promoting consumer interests: Where have we been and where are we going? Business, consumer and regulator perspectives speech

Consumer welfare is the watermark running through every page of the Trade Practices Act.
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Speech
11 Apr 2003

Address on the Trade Practices Act and retail tenancy views of the ACCC

ACCC approach to compliance Unconscionable conduct State and Territory developments: the Victorian initiative An overall assessment The case for industry Codes of Practice
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Speech
20 Jul 2000

Consumer protection in e-commerce speech

Cooperation by business and consumer organisations in developing a united approach to the development of consumer protection strategies for e-commerce is a vital step in improving the extent of consumer protection and consequently consumer confidence in this new way of doing business
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Speech
27 May 2000

The Trade Practices Act: The past, the present and the future speech

Broad personal overview of the past, present and future of trade practices law and policy in Australia
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Speech
10 Mar 1999

Trends in international consumer protection policy speech

The future of the consumer movement internationally is to work smarter and more cooperatively in the new consumer protection paradigm
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