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Speaker 1: And we're going to Donald de Mayo, our Australia correspondent.

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Speaker 1: Australia's two big supermarkets are being sued by the competition

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Speaker 1: watchdog there what for.

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Speaker 2: Yes, legal action has been taken against two major supermarkets,

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Speaker 2: Woolies and Coals. It's alleged there was some illusory discounting

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Speaker 2: on some common products, actually hundreds of them in fact.

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Speaker 2: So the allegation is the supermarkets briefly increased prices on

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Speaker 2: hundreds of products before placing them on discount or on promotion.

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Speaker 2: So it's been alleged to the shoppers have been misled

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Speaker 2: on items you know, from chocky biscuits to instant coffee,

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Speaker 2: yogurt right through to tissues and throat lozenges and pet

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Speaker 2: food and the list goes on. So the Australian Competition

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Speaker 2: and Consumer Commission says the regulator will seek significant penalties.

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Speaker 2: It's taken these supermarkets to the Federal Court in separate cases.

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Speaker 2: I might add, now the major retailer is allegedly profited

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Speaker 2: from the SA teams of millions of these products that,

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Speaker 2: as I mentioned, were discounted but allegedly sold under consumer

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Speaker 2: law breaches. And it looks like that the ATRIPLEC will

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Speaker 2: also seek to impose community service orders, hopefully on Woollies

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Speaker 2: and Coals, and what that means is that these supermarkets

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Speaker 2: will have to fund a registered charity to deliver meals

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Speaker 2: to Australians in need efforts if the ATRIPLEC is successful

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Speaker 2: in its legal action.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about these Indigenous Northern Territory police officers. They've

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Speaker 1: lodged a complaint about racial discrimination.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I've gone straight to the Human Rights Commission and

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Speaker 2: the complaint has been lodged against the Northern Territory Government

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Speaker 2: and the Police Commissioner on behalf of these three serving

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Speaker 2: Aboriginal police. Now they launched the complaint alleging racial discrimination

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Speaker 2: over twenty years, allegations of racial realification and derision, and

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Speaker 2: also an unequal system of pay and promotion. The lawyer

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Speaker 2: actually says that the Aborigin and op community police officers

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Speaker 2: have been subject to this racism since their position was

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Speaker 2: actually created, and it's not a historical complaint by any means,

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Speaker 2: but still very much of today. The Commissioner says he

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Speaker 2: can't comment on specifics of the case, but the fourth

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Speaker 2: is invested in cultural reforms, so let's see what happens there, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Donna, thanks very much for that. Donna de Mayo

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