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Gadgets, News - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 15:51 - 14 Comments
‘You can’t ride this out’:
Husic warns price-hiking vendors
news Federal Labor MP Ed Husic has warned technology vendors hiking prices for the Australian market that criticism and examination of their pricing strategies would not cease, despite the fact that they had so far been largely unresponsive on the issue.
Since the start of this year, Husic has been attempting to get answers from technology giants about why they feel it’s appropriate to rise prices significantly above those found in America — leading to the so-called tech tax — for Australians. The MP has raised the issue with the vendors themselves, in the House of Representatives several times and directly with senior figures such as David Bradbury, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer.
Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan indicated in late October that the Government is keenly awaiting a report from the Productivity Commission which will detail the extent to which price hikes on imported technology goods and services are hurting Australian consumers, as part of the Commission’s overall report into the retail sector.
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