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Suppliers of food and other products have been complaining for years about their treatment at the hands of Woolworths, Coles and Australia’s other big supermarket chains, although rarely to the supermarkets themselves – perhaps, as suggested in a recent Four Corners program, because they feared retribution.

Violators of industry code of conduct to be subject to fines of up to 10 percent of annual turnover.

Some of Australia's biggest companies have put their money where their mouth is by stepping in to save cash carrier Armaguard in a $50 million deal.

Supermarkets could be hit with millions in fines in a government bid to make prices fairer for farmers and shoppers.