The Big Shrek wrote:Anyway you can't just say 'sorry, you're getting too big stop now' to companies.
I suggest you look at the purposes of the Trade Practices Act before stating the government should/could have stopped it.
Yes they can, I know of a couple of examples where companies purchased others and had to get ACCC approval prior to the purchase cause of the market share they would end up with....
You could easily make a case for ABC being predatory when they acquired the small operators a few years back