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Donna Demaio: Australia Correspondent on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission launching legal action against Woolworths and Coles · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: And we're going to Donald de Mayo, our Australia correspondent.
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  Speaker 1: Australia's two big supermarkets are being sued by the competition
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  Speaker 1: watchdog there what for.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, legal action has been taken against two major supermarkets,
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  Speaker 2: Woolies and Coals. It's alleged there was some illusory discounting
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  Speaker 2: on some common products, actually hundreds of them in fact.
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  Speaker 2: So the allegation is the supermarkets briefly increased prices on
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of products before placing them on discount or on promotion.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been alleged to the shoppers have been misled
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  Speaker 2: on items you know, from chocky biscuits to instant coffee,
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  Speaker 2: yogurt right through to tissues and throat lozenges and pet
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  Speaker 2: food and the list goes on. So the Australian Competition
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  Speaker 2: and Consumer Commission says the regulator will seek significant penalties.
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  Speaker 2: It's taken these supermarkets to the Federal Court in separate cases.
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  Speaker 2: I might add, now the major retailer is allegedly profited
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  Speaker 2: from the SA teams of millions of these products that,
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  Speaker 2: as I mentioned, were discounted but allegedly sold under consumer
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  Speaker 2: law breaches. And it looks like that the ATRIPLEC will
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  Speaker 2: also seek to impose community service orders, hopefully on Woollies
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  Speaker 2: and Coals, and what that means is that these supermarkets
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  Speaker 2: will have to fund a registered charity to deliver meals
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  Speaker 2: to Australians in need efforts if the ATRIPLEC is successful
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  Speaker 2: in its legal action.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about these Indigenous Northern Territory police officers. They've
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  Speaker 1: lodged a complaint about racial discrimination.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I've gone straight to the Human Rights Commission and
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  Speaker 2: the complaint has been lodged against the Northern Territory Government
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  Speaker 2: and the Police Commissioner on behalf of these three serving
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  Speaker 2: Aboriginal police. Now they launched the complaint alleging racial discrimination
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  Speaker 2: over twenty years, allegations of racial realification and derision, and
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  Speaker 2: also an unequal system of pay and promotion. The lawyer
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  Speaker 2: actually says that the Aborigin and op community police officers
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  Speaker 2: have been subject to this racism since their position was
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  Speaker 2: actually created, and it's not a historical complaint by any means,
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  Speaker 2: but still very much of today. The Commissioner says he
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  Speaker 2: can't comment on specifics of the case, but the fourth
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  Speaker 2: is invested in cultural reforms, so let's see what happens there, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Donna, thanks very much for that. Donna de Mayo
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