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ACCC approves Qantas's China plans
2015-08-21 06:42:37| Airlines - Topix.net
The competition watchdog has approved Qantas's joint venture with China Eastern, despite warning that allowing the carriers to coordinate their services could be to the public detriment on some routes. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has approved the joint venture between the airlines for five years, despite flagging plans to reject the proposal in March.
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China piles pressure on ACCC to ditch opposition to Qantas-China Eastern deal
2015-06-01 06:08:32| Airlines - Topix.net
The Chinese government has urged the competition regulator to take into account wider national interests and dump its opposition to a deeper alliance between Qantas and state-owned China Eastern. Beijing's decision to flex its lobbying muscle adds to growing pressure on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from government, tourism and transport bodies here to reverse its position.
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Australia: Moses and Paul Obeid targeted by ACCC over Hunter coal licence
2015-05-25 07:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Two members of the Obeid family are facing legal action in the federal court over alleged rigging of the tender for the Mount Penny coal exploration licence in the upper Hunter region of New South Wales. Moses and Paul Obeid, sons of the former NSW Labor minister Eddie Obeid, and three prominent businessmen are the target of civil proceedings launched by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The action follows Icacs findings in 2013 that the process to grant exploration...
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Pressure grows on ACCC to drop opposition to Qantas-China Eastern alliance
2015-04-20 06:10:48| Airlines - Topix.net
Pressure is building on the competition regulator to drop its opposition to a deeper alliance between Qantas and China Eastern after a peak tourism and transport lobby group and the long-haul pilots' union labelled its stance on the case "somewhat unbalanced" and against moves to boost trade with China. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has signalled it will block the alliance due to concerns that it will give the two airlines more than 80 per cent of the direct capacity between Sydney and Shanghai.
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Woodside deal under ACCC scrutiny
2015-01-15 00:06:24| Energy - Topix.net
Woodside Petroleum's $US2.75 billion deal to buy Apache Corporation's liquefied natural gas interests is being scrutinised by the competition watchdog, which is studying whether it may affect wholesale gas supply and prices in Western Australia. The transaction, announced in December, would have Woodside take Apache's stake in Chevron's $US29 billion Wheatstone liquefied natural gas project in WA, as well as its interest in the Balnaves oil field in the Carnarvon Basin.
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