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A ban on price gouging and new powers to break up supermarkets are on the table this election. Would either work?

  • Written by Barbora Jedlickova, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, The University of Queensland
A ban on price gouging and new powers to break up supermarkets are on the table this election. Would either work?wisely/Shutterstock

With the federal election campaign now underway, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised that if re-elected, Labor would seek to make price gouging illegal in the supermarket sector.

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