February has been a month of high‑profile corporate court cases in Australia, both shining a spotlight an economy where customer welfare is incidental to the pursuit of profit.

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    2 days ago

    Peculiarly, the headlnie makes it sound like coles and westpac are battling against greed.

    This is not the case.

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    3 days ago

    Great article, well written and researched. I think everyone is tired of the oligopoly of major supermarkets crying ‘we have tiny margins’ to investigators and courts only to turn around and report record profits for the 10th quarter in a row the next week. The banks are even worse.

    After looking at a couple others articles I’ve added Independent Australia to my regular news sources, cheers.