Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Baxter Healthcare Pty Ltd [2005] FCA 581

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Baxter Healthcare Pty Ltd [2005] FCA 581

TRADE PRACTICES – ss 46 and 47 – tendering for supply of sterile fluids for State and Territory health facilities STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION – CROWN IMMUNITY – extending to protect conduct of third party (first respondent) with respective State and Territory executive governments Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) Part IV ss 46, 47, 76, 80, 83 ASX Operations Pty Ltd v Pont Data Australia Pty Ltd (No 1) (1990) 27 FCR 460 referred to Australian Gas Light Company v ACCC [2003] ATPR 41-966 referred to Bass v Permanent Trustee Co Ltd (1999) 198 CLR 334 referred to Boral Besser Masonry Ltd v ACCC (2003) 215 CLR 374609 referred to Bradken Consolidated Ltd v BHP (1979) 145 CLR 107 applied Bropho v Western Australia (1990) 171 CLR 1 referred to Burgundy Royale Investments Pty Ltd v Westpac Banking Corporation (1987) 18 FCR 212 referred to China Ocean Shipping Co v South Australia (1979) 145 CLR 172 referred to Commonwealth v Rhind (1960) 119 CLR 584 referred to Davis v Commonwealth (1980) 166 CLR 79 referred to Dowling v Dalgety Australia Limited (1992) 34 FCR 109 referred to Doyle v Edwards (1898) 16 NZLR 572 referred to Lower Hutt City v Attorney-General [1965] NZLR 65 referred to Eastern Express Ltd v General Newspapers (1992) 35 FCR 43 referred to Melway Publishing Pty Ltd v Robert Hicks Pty Ltd (2001) 205 CLR 1 referred to Monroe Topple & Associates Pty Ltd v Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (2002) 122 FCR 110 referred to NT Power Generation Pty Ltd v Power and Water Authority (2004) 210 ALR 312 discussed and applied Queensland Co-operative Milling Association (1976) ATPR 40-012 referred to Queensland Wire Industries Pty Ltd v Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd (1989) 167 CLR 177 referred to Re Telephone Apparatus Manufacturers' Application [1963] 1 WLR 463 discussed Rural Press Ltd v ACCC (2003) 216 CLR 53 203 ALR 217 referred to Stirling Harbour Services Pty Ltd v Bunbury Port Authority (2000) ATPR 41-752 referred to Tillmanns Butcheries Pty Limited v Australasian Meat Industry Employee's Union and others (1979) 42 FLR 331 referred to Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd v ACCC (2003) 131 FCR 529 referred to and applied Wellington City Corporation v Victoria University of Wellington [1975] 2 NZLR 301 referred to Wynyard Investments Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Railways (NSW) (1955) 93 CLR 376 discussed Nalebuff, B (2000) "Competing against bundles" in Incentives, Organisation, and Public Economics; Peter Hammond & Gareth Myles, eds, Oxford University Press.) Seddon Government Contracts: Federal State and Local (3rd Edn) AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION v BAXTER HEALTHCARE PTY LTD AND ORS N 1153 of 2002 ALLSOP J 16 MAY 2005 SYDNEY