Can anti-competitive action help fight a virus?

Yes, apparently.

Clancy Yates has an opinion piece in today’s SMH discussing this issue, quoting ACCC Chair, Rod Sims, from a speech last week:

“At a time of crisis such as in war or with a pandemic, where there is a common enemy to fight for the nation’s survival, and so a sense of national purpose, co-ordination is both efficient and carries little or no downside"

See Clancy Yates, ‘How anti-competitive action can help fight virus war’ (SMH, 18 April 2020)