Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to search

Top utilities

News centre
Contact

Our other sites

NASC
Scamwatch
Product Safety

Search (required)

Consumers
Business
By industry
Inquiries and consultations
Public registers
About us

Breadcrumb

Home

News centre

Journalists and media employees can contact the ACCC by phone on 1300 138 917 or by email at media@accc.gov.au.
If you are not a journalist, contact the ACCC on 1300 302 502 (consumers), 1300 302 021 (business), or through another general contact.
After hours media enquiries, phone 0408 995 408 (calls only, no texts please).

All news
Media releases
Speeches
Updates

Fulltext search (required)

From (required)

To (required)

Quick selection

This year to date Last 12 months Last year Last 5 years

Advertising and promotions 38
Agriculture 19
Banking and finance 13
Buying and selling products and services 68
Cars and vehicles 6
Childcare 1
Competition and exemptions 283
Compliance and enforcement 89
Consumer Data Right 1
COVID-19 6
Debt 3
Digital platforms and services 28
Energy 67
Food and groceries 14
Franchising 15
Industry codes 32
Insurance 8
Mergers 58
Petrol and fuel 3
Postal services 2
Pricing 13
Problem with a product or service 17
Rail, shipping and ports 16
Regulated infrastructure 190
Scams 12
Stay protected 27
Telecommunications and internet 81
Travel and airports 10
Water 8

Pin topics filter

1 - 24 of 58 news items shown

Sort by (required)

Speech

ACCC's compliance and enforcement priorities update 2025-26 address

ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb keynote at the Committee for Economic Development Australia (CEDA) on the ACCC’s compliance and enforcement priorities for 2025-26.

Compliance and enforcement

Competition and exemptions

Speech

Framing the future of financial services: strengthening competition and consumer engagement

In the keynote address for the Gilbert + Tobin Financial Services Forum on Thursday 31 October 2024, ACCC Chair, Ms Gina Cass-Gottlieb spoke about the significant changes happening in the financial services sector and the implications of these for the ACCC’s work.

Consumer Data Right

Buying and selling products and services

Competition and exemptions

Banking and finance

Digital platforms and services

Speech

Regulatory priorities and challenges posed by the digital economy speech

Ms Gina Cass-Gottlieb, ACCC Chair, gave a speech on 17 October 2023 at the KWM Digital Future Summit 2023.

Digital platforms and services

Speech

Law Council Annual Competition and Consumer Law Workshop speech

Ms Gina Cass-Gottlieb, ACCC Chair, gave the opening address on September 1 to the Law Council Annual Competition and Consumer Law Workshop.

Compliance and enforcement

Digital platforms and services

Speech

Law Council Competition and Consumer Law Workshop opening address

Ms Gina Cass-Gottlieb, ACCC Chair, gave the Opening address on September 9 to the Law Council Annual Competition and Consumer Law Workshop.

Advertising and promotions

Buying and selling products and services

Compliance and enforcement

Digital platforms and services

Speech

Competition in Australia faces big challenges speech

ACCC Chair Rod Sims spoke at this year’s Annual Competition Law & Economics Workshop, hosted by UniSA and the ACCC, where he discussed significant challenges facing competition law and policy in Australia.

Competition and exemptions

Speech

Protecting and promoting competition in Australia keynote speech

ACCC Chair Rod Sims opened the Law Council of Australia's Competition and Consumer Workshop with the Annual Address, where he started a debate on proposals for changes to Australia's merger laws.

Competition and exemptions

Speech

Address to the International Competition Network Merger Workshop 2020

ACCC Chair Rod Sims addresses the International Competition Network (ICN) Merger Workshop 2020, which the ACCC is hosting for the first time.

Competition and exemptions

Speech

Improving Australia's productivity and consumer welfare address

ACCC Chair Rod Sims addresses the RBB Economics Forum on consumer welfare and the emerging challenges for policymakers and regulators to improve economic efficiency across a range of areas including mergers, unfair conduct, monopolies, agriculture and the data economy.

Speech

Address to the 2019 Competition Law Conference

ACCC Chair Rod Sims addresses the 2019 Competition Law Conference and discusses the merger regime in relation to digital platforms.

Digital platforms and services

Speech

Address to the Law Council of Australia Annual General Meeting

ACCC Chair Rod Sims addresses the Law Council of Australia Annual General Meeting regarding the need for strong enforcement combined with continued advocacy for increased penalties; how data, algorithms and digital platforms will be central topics for the ACCC over the coming year; and some comments regarding merger assessments and focus.

Digital platforms and services

Compliance and enforcement

Speech

Law Council of Australia speech

Chairman Rod Sims outlines the ACCC's new approach to information gathering in merger analysis, and how an increase in resources for cartel investigations over the past three years resulted in this week's once-in-a-century conviction for cartel conduct.

Competition and exemptions

Speech

Keynote address to the RBB Economics Conference

At the RBB Economics Conference in Sydney, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman Rod Sims asks: Is Australia's economy getting more concentrated and does this matter?

Speech

Chair's address to the Law Council workshop

ACCC Chair Rod Sims delivers his annual address to the Law Council of Australia's Competition and Consumer Workshop.

Competition and exemptions

Speech

Promoting innovation through competition speech

At the RBB Economics Conference in Sydney, ACCC Chairman Rod Sims discusses the current innovation debate.

Competition and exemptions

Speech

Carbon, mergers and other issues speech

With energy markets in Australia delivering significant challenges for all involved, Chairman Rod Sims provides an update on the ACCC's work on the carbon tax repeal and discusses merger process issues.

Speech

University of South Australia workshop: Regulator update speech

ACCC Chairman Rod Sims discusses the Harper Competition Review's recommendations relating to merger reviews and the competition provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

Speech

Enhancing competition policy address

ACCC Chairman Rod Sims addresses the Law Council of Australia, Competition & Consumer Committee Annual General Meeting in Brisbane. Mr Sims discusses gaps in the law which can damage economic efficiency and also do not reflect international best practice.

Competition and exemptions

Speech

CEDA conference: Looking forward to 2014 address

Chairman, Rod Sims, announces the ACCC's priorities for 2014.

Advertising and promotions

Buying and selling products and services

Competition and exemptions

Digital platforms and services

Telecommunications and internet

Speech

Mergers: a 20 year retrospective speech

ACCC Commissioner Jill Walker and ACCC Executive General Manager, Legal Group, Tim Grimwade take a look back at the substantially lessening competition test and some of the key merger moments in the past 20 years.

Speech

Looking back, looking forward – the ACCC’s approach to making markets work for Australian consumers speech

ACCC chairman Rod Sims covers the strategic approach to enforcement and the Australian Consumer Law, mergers reviews, as well as the ACCC's focus on the Asian region.

Competition and exemptions

Speech

ACCC chairman Rod Sims speaks to CEDA

Better communicating the ACCC's role, its approach to reviewing mergers involving small retail acquisitions and the benefits of competition in electricity

Competition and exemptions

Speech

The ACCC's role in mergers and acquisitions - a mythbuster! speech

Merger regulation is a key element of any effective competition law, aiming to preserve competitive market structures and give market participants incentives to compete, rather than rely on ex post regulation of anti-competitive conduct.

Speech

Current issues on the ACCC's radar speech

Overview of criminal sanctions for cartel activity and the ACCC's merger analysis

Competition and exemptions

Full pager with select page option (required)

Pagination

Current page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Next page
Last page

Items per page (required)

RSS

Subscribe to media releases and speeches

Keep up-to-date on the latest media releases and speeches from the ACCC via email updates.

Email address (required)

What do you wish to receive email updates for? (required)

Media releases

Speeches

Topics (required)

All topics

ACCC court action

Agriculture and water

Consumer matters

Consumer data right

Digital platforms

Energy, including electricity, gas, petrol

Financial services and insurance

Infrastructure, including airports, shipping, ports

Mergers and exemptions

Product safety

Small business and franchising

Telecommunications

Is this page useful?

Yes No

Thanks for your feedback.

ACCC Consumer Rights Facebook ACCC Twitter ACCC Instagram ACCC YouTube ACCC Linkedin

The ACCC acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands across Australia on which we live and work. We acknowledge their connection to this Country and pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging.

Footer menu

ACCC © Commonwealth of Australia

Accessibility
Cookies
Disclaimer and copyright
Glossary
Vulnerability disclosure
Privacy