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I am progressively adding cases to this database; for a more complete list see the chronological case list.
BlueScope Steel Limited v ACCC (FCAFC)
29 August 2025
BlueScope Steel Limited v ACCC [2025] FCAFC 118 (appeal dismissed)
Cartels - attempt to induce price fixing
ACCC v Qteq Pty Ltd (FCA)
17 April 2025
ACCC v Qteq Pty Ltd [2025] FCA 371
Cartels - attempts - meaning of cau
ACCC v Delta Building Automation Pty Ltd (No 2) (FCA)
4 June 2024
ACCC v Delta Building Automation Pty Ltd (No 2) [2024] FCA 580
Cartel - bid rigging - penalty judgment
Image by Nick-D under CC BY-SA 3.0
CDPP v Aussie Skips Bin Services Pty Ltd (FCA)
23 February 2024
CDPP v Aussie Skips Bin Services Pty Ltd; Aussie Skips Recycling Pty Ltd; Roussakis [2024] FCA 122
Criminal cartel conduct - sentencing
CDPP v Bingo Industries Pty Ltd (FCA)
23 February 2024
CDPP v Bingo Industries Pty Ltd; CDPP v Tartak [2024] FCA 121
Criminal cartel conduct - sentencing
ACCC v Bluescope Steel Ltd (FCA)
29 August 2023
ACCC v BlueScope Steel Limited (No 6) [2023] FCA 1029
Cartels - price-fixing - attempt
ACCC v Delta Building Automation Pty Ltd (FCA)
1 August 2023
ACCC v Delta Building Automation Pty Ltd [2023] FCA 880
Cartels - bid rigging
[Image by Nick-D under CC BY-SA 3.0]
ACCC v Bluescope Steel Ltd (FCA)
9 December 2022
ACCC v BlueScope Steel Limited (No 5) [2022] FCA 1475
Cartel - price fixing
CDPP v Joyce (FCA)
29 November 2022
CDPP v Joyce [2022] FCA 1423
Criminal cartel - sentencing
CDPP v Alkaloids (FCA)
29 November 2022
CDPP v Alkaloids of Australia Pty Ltd [2022] FCA 1424
Criminal cartel - sentencing
ACCC v NQCranes Pty Ltd (FCA)
23 November 2022
ACCC v NQCranes Pty Ltd [2022] FCA 1383
Cartel - agreed penalties
ACCC v First Class Slate Roofing (FCA)
14 September 2022
ACCC v First Class Slate Roofing Pty Limited [2022] FCA 1093
Cartel - bid rigging - admitted - agreed penalties
CDPP v Vina Money Transfer Pty Ltd (FCA)
9 June 2022
CDPP v Vina Money Transfer Pty Ltd [2022] FCA 665
Criminal cartel - sentencing
CDPP v Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean AS (FCA)
4 February 2021
CDPP v Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean AS [2021] FCA 52
Criminal cartel - sentencing
ACCC v Cascade Coal (FCAFC)
4 September 2019
ACCC v Cascade Coal [2019] FCAFC 154
Bid rigging - cartel - competitors - appeal dismissed
CDPP v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd (FCA)
2 August 2019
CDPP v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd [2019] FCA 1170
Criminal cartel - sentencing
ACCC v PT Garuda Indonesia Ltd (FCA)
30 May 2019
ACCC v PT Garuda Indonesia Ltd [2019] FCA 786
Cartels (price fixing) - air cargo - penalties
ACCC v Cryosite Limited (FCA)
13 February 2026
ACCC v Cryosite Limited [2019] FCA 116
Cartels (gun jumping) - mergers
ACCC v Cascade Coal (FCA)
6 July 2018
ACCC v Cascade Coal Pty Ltd (No 3) [2018] FCA 1019
Cartels (bid rigging), competitors or likely competitors, anti-competitive purpose, exclusionary provisions
ACCC v Air New Zealand (No 15) (FCA)
27 June 2018
ACCC v Air New Zealand Limited (No 15) [2018] FCA 1166
Anti-competitive agreements - exclusive dealing, penalties