Building a rod for their back GENERALLY speaking, for consumers, life in Australia just keeps getting better and better. Think of the sheets you wake up in, the car you drive, the shoes you wear, the bag you carry, the technology used at work, the plates you eat dinner off and the electronics used for evening entertainment. Mostly, goods are better and cheaper than five years ago. One of the invisible mechanisms driving this constant improvement is the Competition & Consumer Act. We scoot around buying new iPads and redecorating our homes with fabulous cheap doodads, blissfully unaware that anti-cartel legislation, enforced by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, allows us to do so.