Queensland independent MP Bob Katter and Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie plan to reintroduce a bill to reduce the powers of Australian supermarkets Woolworths and Coles. The updated version aims to scrap the voluntary food and grocery code of conduct, create a Commissioner for food retailing, and require supermarkets to publish payments to farmers. The MPs also want to limit supermarkets' market share to 20% within five years.
Looking to Canberra now, where earlier this morning in Parliament House, two men in inflatable pig suits roamed the halls of the press gallery snorting, with their snouts in a trough of cash. Those men were Queensland independent MP Bob Katter and Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie, who 10 years ago put a bill to parliament to reduce the powers of the big two supermarkets Woolworths and Coles .
The MPs are planning to reintroduce an updated version, which would scrap the voluntary food and grocery code of conduct, create a Commissioner for food retailing that would have powers to stop price gouging and other anticompetitive behaviour, and require the supermarkets to publish what they are paying farmers. They also want the supermarkets to be broken up. Coles and Woolworths have a combined nearly 80 per cent of the market share of supermarkets in Australia, and Wilkie and Katter want supermarkets limited to a maximum 20 per cent market share within five years
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