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	Australian Story - 2/9/2002: Being Allan Fels
		Allan Fels speech: The role of the ACCC is to apply the Trade Practices Act without fear or favour to whomever it applies to, big or small...
		ALLAN FELS: I pursued her under the somewhat arduous courtship conditions in Spain in the 1960s, with a rather conservative family.
		ALLAN FELS: For the first year or so in her life Isabella seemed fine, and then we started to notice little things, but thought that was just childhood.
	www.abc.net.au /austory/transcripts/s659714.htm (3071 words)

	IPA in the News \| Power in ACCC's Hands
		Allan Fels, in his last month at the ACCC, left a poisoned chalice to successor Graeme Samuel.
		Fels opposed a consortium's acquisition of the giant Loy Yang generator, putting at risk the resolution of its financial distress.
		In his prime at the ACCC, Allan Fels argued forcefully that a "failing firm" made a strong case for overriding opposition to mergers that bring greater concentration.
	www.ipa.org.au /files/news_379.html (540 words)

	JS Online: Panel to Decide on Aussie Airline Merger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Allan Fels, chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, said he wanted to have a decision ready on the deal before he steps down from his post on June 30.
		Fels' commission and its New Zealand counterpart both rejected the merger in draft rulings in April.
		Fels said new arguments were being presented to his Commission now, after the two airlines announced last month new concessions to persuade regulators to approve the alliance.
	www.jsonline.com /bym/news/ap/jun03/ap-qantas-air-new-060203.asp?format=print (288 words)

	Print Article: Allan Fels slams Section 46 of Trade Practices Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Professor Fels said it was a big worry the commission had lost so many court cases using section 46 of the act, which deals with market power.
		Prof Fels said the ACCC had lost high-profile cases with Boral, Safeway, Rural Press using section 46 of the Trade Practices Act.
		Prof Fels, who plans to step down from his role at the ACCC in a little over three months, said he hoped the government had found his successor by June 30.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/03/09/1047144870668.html (389 words)

	INSTEV49-e (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Allan Fels: I will take the chance you've given me to give you a few statistics, which, I must admit, I rehearsed just last night, and I might send them to you in written form.
		Allan Fels: In Australia, we draw a sharp distinction between a barrister who represents people in court and a solicitor who works in the office.
		Allan Fels: One thing is that I have just turned up in the last day or so a bit of data on the subject and also an article.
	www.parl.gc.ca /InfoComDoc/37/1/INST/Meetings/Evidence/instev49-e.htm (13030 words)

	AM Archive - Allan Fels unbowed by Qantas criticism
		LINDA MOTTRAM: The head of the ACCC Allan Fels is unbowed in the face of claims that he's gone too far with Federal Court action against Qantas for alleged anti-competitive behaviour.
		ALLAN FELS: I find the Qantas reaction pretty strange because the Commission has been very reasonable to it over the years.
		ALLAN FELS: The Commission's always been fairly high profile, it's just that there've been a couple of high profile things involving oil and Qantas.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s550508.htm (544 words)

	Diligence, coordination and tech key to compliance: Fels: ZDNet Australia: News: Business
		Fels, a well-known academic who most famously headed the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) from its inception in 1995 until mid-2003, is now acting as dean of the Australian and New Zealand School of Government.
		In many cases, Fels says, the behaviour in question was due to mistakes on the part of individuals and not because of some comprehensive organisational conspiracy.
		Indeed, says Fels, some companies have found their training regime to be so poorly structured that new employees go a full year without training -- during which time they have committed serious compliance breaches.
	zdnet.com.au /news/business/soa/Diligence_coordination_and_tech_key_to_compliance_Fels/0,39023166,39217600,00.htm (1052 words)

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		AUSTRALIAN Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Allan Fels will speak on the issue of misleading and deceptive advertising in an address to the Advertising Federation of Australia’s annual general meeting tomorrow that will be broadcast nationally.
		The AFA said it invited Fels to speak as part of the advertising industry’s commitment to Trade Practices compliance.
		The title of Fels’ address is “Advertising and trade practices law—a perspective of the Commission’.
	www.bandt.com.au /news/f3/0c00c6f3.asp (184 words)

	IPA in the News \| Watchdog whose Bite was Rabid
		Professor Allan Fels' legacy is that of a populist technocrat who promoted the popularity of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission at the cost of public support for market-based competition.
		Fels has sought the political support of the so-called consumer movement.
		Fels has also often fallen for the popular desire to out-guess the market and to regulate anything new.
	www.ipa.org.au /files/news_369.html (783 words)

	Allan Fels keeps his friends close and his enemies closer - theage.com.au
		From the moment the review was first mooted by John Howard during last year's election campaign, it is clear Fels recognised its threat, despite the enormous debt the Government owed him for his role in minimising the disruption and controversy latent in the introduction of the GST.
		Fels is acutely sensitive to the politics of his position, and adroit at influencing them.
		Disturbingly for Fels, they instruct the committee to review whether the provisions of the act "provide adequate protection for the commercial affairs and reputation of individuals" and whether they "allow businesses to readily exercise their rights and obligations under the Act consistent with certainty, transparency and accountability".
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/05/10/1021002390265.html (613 words)

	What's On at UWA
		Professor Fels will discuss the general strategies which regulators of business apply, drawing upon his experiences as former Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and as Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
		Professor Allan Fels, AO is Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG).
		Professor Fels was Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from 1995 until 30 June 2003.
	events.uwa.edu.au /event/20050519T043757Z-219-15061@events.uwa.edu.au/whatson/publicaffairs (314 words)

	CNN.com - Oil majors raided after price-fixing tip - April 24, 2002
		ACCC chairman Allan Fels said the commission acted after receiving an anonymous tip-off that led it to believe companies in the oil industry could be breaching the Trade Practices Act.
		Fels said the informant, who was inside an oil company, first contacted the ACCC in December.
		The commission moved swiftly, Fels said, "to secure documents which may be crucial to our further investigations".
	archives.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/asia/04/24/aust.oilprices.biz (439 words)

	UNSW: The University of New South Wales - Sydney Australia - News - Reflections of a competition czar: Allan Fels ...
		Professor Allan Fels, former head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, will deliver the inaugural Business Law Lecture at NSW Parliament House on Wednesday, September 17.
		The free lecture entitled 'Reflections of a Competition Czar' is presented by the School of Business Law and Taxation in the Faculty of Commerce and Economics at UNSW.
		Fels, considered by many to be Australia's most successful competition regulator, is the Foundation Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
	www.unsw.edu.au /news/pad/media/2003/sep/Allan_Fells.html (195 words)

	Compliance made simple online - a business breakfast with professor Allan Fels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Professor Fels will discuss the significant benefits that can result from an effective compliance system as well as the risks of non-compliance in an increasingly regulated environment.
		Allan is currently the Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
		He was previously Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from 1995 until 2003, Chairman of the former Trade Practices Commission from 1991 until 1995 and Co-Chairman of the Joint Group on Trade and Competition at the OECD from 1996 until 2003.
	www.standards.com.au /compliance (240 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Chairman of the ACCC, Professor Allan Fels, made this announcement during the recent 2003 Telecommunications Users Group conference.
		Professor Fels also stated a number of other issues relating to mobile telephony service would also be investigated including mobile origination as well as domestic and international roaming fees.
		While Professor Fels announcement is welcome news, it is tempered by the reality that the ACCC does not have the authority to set prices.
	www.nusinc.com /section_home/p_news_detail.asp?language=1&PRID=81 (342 words)

	ACCC rules ACCC anti-competitive - Luminosity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chairman of the ACCC, Professor Allan Fels, once again called a media conference to explain the organisation’s strange behaviour.
		Asked what they intended to do about the problem, Professor Fels replied that as soon as a competitior came forward, the ACCC would be more than willing to discuss sharing their budget between the organisations.
		Fels also indicated that he felt the Federal Government should provide more funding to the ACCC to co-ordinate the introduction of a competitive watch-dog scheme, “probably by cutting Senator Alston’s pay-cheque”.
	illuminosity.net /writing/satire/anticompetitiveaccc (348 words)

	AMA - MJA Release
		Through a moving account of his daughter’s illness, Professor Allan Fels appeals to governments to realistically fund the diagnosis, care and treatment of people suffering from schizophrenia.
		Thirty-one-ear-old Isabella Fels was diagnosed with the disease six years ago, after years of confusing and sometimes bizarre behaviour.
		Professor Fels said as a society we should try to overcome the stigma of schizophrenia and he called on GPs, school teachers and counsellors to watch for early signs of the illness.
	www.ama.com.au /web.nsf/doc/WEEN-5QU5HV (484 words)

	Splurge - moneymanager.com.au
		Allan Fels is well known from his former role as head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
		Last month in The Sydney Morning Herald, Fels discussed his own daughter, Isabella, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1997.
		Fels would splurge on supported accommodation for homeless people - many of whom he says are separated from their families and become drug-dependent because of the strain of mental illness.
	moneymanager.smh.com.au /articles/2005/03/08/1110160815140.html (240 words)

	story
		Professor Allan Fels is a fearful figure in the community — fearful, that is, if you’re a business or multinational corporation indulging in anti-competitive behaviour.
		While he moved away from the Church in his younger days, Allan Fels now has a renewed respect for the Christian principles of putting the public interest first and of acting properly and in accord with the dictates of natural justice.
		Professor Fels was back in the headlines last week over his battle with the major banks to deliver credit card fee reductions.
	www.catholicweekly.com.au /01/apr/8/story_14.html (996 words)

	Australian Candidate for Top OECD Post
		The Australian Government is pleased to announce the candidacy of Professor Allan Fels AO for the position of Secretary General of the OECD.
		In submitting the nomination of Professor Fels, the Government is emphasising Professor Fels' standing as a national leader in economic policy development and debate.
		Professor Fels is currently Dean of the Australia-New Zealand School of Government, a world-class institution with a substantial research component.
	www.trademinister.gov.au /releases/2005/050722_joint_oesd_post.html (312 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Australian watchdog raids petrol giants after anonymous letter
		ACCC chairman Professor Allan Fels said a woman had sent an anonymous letter to the commission in December last year detailing price collusion.
		Professor Fels said 90 ACCC staff, lawyers, investigators and information technology experts were involved in the raids.
		Professor Fels said the ACCC was likely to use its powers to interview witnesses and it would take weeks to look at the evidence.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cns22024.htm (549 words)

	Arnold Bloch Leibler
		Professor Allan Fels AO is a consultant to Arnold Bloch Leibler.
		Professor Fels has degrees in economics and law from the University of Western Australia, and a PhD in Economics from Duke University.
		Professor Fels was the Co-Chairman of the Joint Group on Trade and Competition at the OECD from 1996 until 2003.
	www.abl.com.au /?p=4,21,49&i=2080176 (238 words)

	CorpWatch : Australia: Power Rip-Off Exposed
		Professor Fels said the companies fined formed a covert cartel and colluded to fix the outcome of government and private tenders to supply electricity transformers worth $160 million annually.
		Professor Fels yesterday called for the law to be changed to impose jail terms on chief executives who engaged in serious breaches of the law as a deterrent to others.
		Professor Fels' suggestion that there was a cost to the industry and electricity consumers was "unfounded and incorrect," he said.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=2532 (802 words)

	Fels rejects claim in V8 car race row
		Competition tsar Professor Allan Fels warned yesterday he would closely monitor the motor racing industry in the wake of a three-month investigation which dismissed allegations of anti-competitive behaviour by one of the key players.
		One of the main allegations investigated by the ACCC was that AVESCO attempted to persuade certain motor racing circuits around Australia to stage only AVESCO V8 Supercar events, and no other "Holden v Ford" style events, and that it would withdraw its own events if they failed to do so.
		Professor Fels said the ACCC's findings "essentially did not support the claims" and it was satisfied AVESCO had not engaged in any conduct which breached the Trade Practices Act.
	www.drive.com.au /editorial/article.aspx?id=819&vf=1 (367 words)

	AMA - AusMed On-line
		TOP STORIES Fels still on attack The ACCC has warned public and private hospital accreditation committees – and the hospitals themselves – that they risk prosecution for possible breaches of third line forcing and primary boycott provisions of the Trade Practices Act.
		ACCC Chairman, Allan Fels, told the AMA’s Competition in Health’ seminar last month, the Commission was aware that certain hospitals would only accredit Australian fellows and in some cases those who also belonged to a
		ACCC Chairman, Allan Fels, told the AMA's Competition in Health' seminar last month, the Commission was aware that certain hospitals would only accredit Australian fellows and in some cases those who also belonged to a specialist society or association.
	www.ama.com.au /web.nsf/doc/SHED-5EXGRW (1322 words)

	ourcommunity.com.au - Professor allan fels leadership interview former chair of the ACC
		Professor Allan Fels AO Professor Allan Fels AO was appointed Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government in July 2003 after a distinguished career as the chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from 1995 until 2003.
		Professor Fels was appointed as Professor of Administration at Monash University in 1984 and was the Director of the Graduate School of Management, Monash University from 1985 until 1990.
		He is now an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University and became a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne in 2003.
	ourcommunity.com.au /leadership/leadership_article.jsp?articleId=1379 (634 words)

	Bulletin - Pay TV's big picture play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When the media and telephone companies behind the ground-breaking pay television programming merger pitch their deal to corporate regulator Allan Fels, they will invoke the fiasco besetting the airline industry.
		Fels, chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has to consider broader issues than simply suturing an open wound.
		While Fels seems guarded about the outcome until he has thoroughly examined its implications, few Australians would care if Hollywood missed out on a few dollars.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/printing/820A1870E009AB0ECA256B75001FEB33 (1585 words)

	ICN - About Us - Steering Group - Steering Group Members - Allan Fels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Professor Fels was Chairman of the former Trade Practices Commission from July 1991 until November 1995.
		Professor Fels was formerly the Director of the Graduate School of Management, Monash University from 1985 until 1990 and is now an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University.
		Professor Fels is the Co-Chairman of the Joint Group on Trade and Competition at the OECD.
	www.internationalcompetitionnetwork.org /allan_fels.html (136 words)

	Bulletin - Broadcast rues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The latest mood appears to be “she loves me not” as Allan Fels’ ACCC sifts a further refinement of the original deal, which it declared anti-competitive but said it would be prepared to negotiate.
		Possibly, but it would be a big call by Allan Fels.
		While the political pitfalls are obvious, Fels also has problems on the competitive policy side.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/printing/B6FF7F4A4B9092FBCA256C1200823D3D (391 words)

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