Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, people are skipping meals, as food and grocery prices skyrocket, while Coles and Woolies report billion-dollar profits. The ACCC has said that divestiture powers would increase competition and lower the cost of food and groceries. The Prime Minister recently dismissed divestiture powers as a Soviet Union policy. Is the Prime Minister aware that that well-known command-and-control economy, the United States of America, has had divestiture powers for over 130 years? (Time expired)