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Court ruling sounds death knell for 'wouldn't it be nice?' Australian cartelists

By James Panichi ( August 29, 2025, 03:39 GMT | Comment) -- An Australian court today shut down arguments in two different cases by businessmen who spoke to rivals in vague terms, with an appeals panel agreeing with earlier rulings that found the context of what was said was as important as the words used. In both the appeals of Delta Building Automation and BlueScope Steel, federal judges agreed that shooting the breeze with rivals about prices and future tender plans isn’t OK — no matter what words are used. The key antitrust question that Australian judges were asked to contemplate recently was this: Should we focus on what an alleged cartelist said to a competitor, or what he meant to say? ...

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