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The uncomfortable legal precedent behind Australia's BlueScope antitrust ruling

By Saloni Sinha and James Panichi ( September 1, 2025, 08:13 GMT | Comment) -- Last week’s BlueScope Steel antitrust ruling appeared to settle the question of what types of behavior can be considered an attempt to lure a competitor into an anticompetitive agreement. Yet a closer look at how the judges dealt with a complex legal precedent, in which Australia’s top court concluded that a cartel needed to be an agreement between two parties, suggests this key issue may still not be resolved.On paper, last week’s ruling by an Australian court’s appeals panel dealing with two similar antitrust cases should have been conceptually simple....

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