Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Wong. On Monday, Master Grocers Australia released a damning report into the effects of Australia's supermarket duopoly—the 80 per cent share of Coles and Woolworths in the grocery market—on competition, and the wider implications for consumers, suppliers and local communities. Among other things, the report recommended the Australian government reintroduce a prohibition on anticompetitive price discrimination, similar to that in place in other OECD nations, and repeal the provision in the Competition and Consumer Act that allows cross-subsidisation between related entities. How does the federal government plan to address the serious issues this report raises?

Senator Chris Evans interjecting—