Allan Fels: A Portrait of Power
John Wiley, $29.95 pb, 310 pp
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Guarding the Oeufs
by Philip Clark •
Assuming the Chair of a business regulatory authority might not be thought of as an ideal path to media stardom, but Allan Fels showed otherwise. Fels is easily Australia’s best-known cartel buster and the scourge of price-fixing business and anti-competitive behaviour generally. For years he was regularly on the nightly news. In a savage sea of rapacious price-gougers, Fels was the consumer’s friend.
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