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Right and wrong in ComCom proposals

Applying investigatory powers to competition issues is like administering chemotherapy to apparently healthy patients on the off-chance one of them may have cancer.

Roger Partridge
Fri, 07 Jul 2017

We all know two wrongs don’t make a right. But nor does getting something only half right. At least not when it is also half wrong.

And that is precisely how we should view Commerce Minister Jacqui Dean’s announcement last week about proposed changes to the Commerce Act.

She was right to rule

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Roger Partridge
Fri, 07 Jul 2017
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