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Chasing a Better Deal for Battlers

Allan Fels

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MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
03 September 2019
Allan Fels on the case for a fair deal.

Allan Fels has never been one to shy away from a fight, especially when the big end of town is exploiting small businesses or consumers. During his twelve years as head of Australia's competition watchdog, he took on banks, airlines, supermarkets and big telcos to make sure Australians were getting a fair deal.

Since leaving the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in 2003, he's continued to champion the underdog. From fighting for the rights of those with a mental health disability, to overseeing the payment of millions of dollars in wages to illegally underpaid 7-Eleven workers, Fels has used his wily political skills and media savvy to get the job done.

Along the way, he's also helped radically transform Victoria's taxi industry and investigated grossly overpaid corporate executives.

In this fascinating account of his post-ACCC life, Fels opens up about how his family has coped with daughter Isabella's schizophrenia, what it was like to be controversially sacked by 7-Eleven and what he's learned over his fifty years of dedicated public service.
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Imprint:   MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   327g
ISBN:   9780522874419
ISBN 10:   052287441X
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Allan Fels AO, of Melbourne, Monash and Oxford universities, is former chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. As dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government he trained top-level public servantsand for the last seven years has conducted training programs for top Chinese Communist Party officials. He played a major role in mental health policy as chair of the National Mental Health Commission and has been involved in numerous public inquiries into taxis, parliamentary entitlements, the pay of top executives in Australia, underpaid migrant workers and the role of non-government organisations.

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