On June 5, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) sent the same letter to over 200 recipients. All had written to the authority about an alleged cartel between beef processors, many of them using a complaint template circulated by the organiser of farmers’ protests that were escalating into full blockades this time last year. “Based on its assessment of the information currently available to the CCPC, the CCPC has not found evidence of a suspected breach of competition law to warrant taking any further action in relation to the Beef Complaints, including the complaint submitted by you at this…

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