[Melbourne Airports do NOT have a monopoly. JetPort and A1 airport parking have been seriously denting their bottom line for some time now. Look at all the vacant parking bays in the long term car park. They never advertised on the radio, now it's full on and they have "magically found" some great savings on airport parking. Amazing what competition can turn up!!
That is the most amazing trumped up claim I've ever heard.
A government interested in car-parking competition would have provided land close to the terminal for car-parking competitors to compete. They deliberately did not. The car-parking competitors you speak of have to provide pickup and dropoff services to neighbouring suburbs because even the airport land was not made available to car-parking competitors. It was only made available to corporates (and the taxi industry offsett by a surcharge....)
At least they could have subdivided the parking real-estate and sold bits off to competitors such as Wilson and Secure Parking. Perhaps then there could have been some token competition (even if not real).
The fact that the ACCC has only recently become "annoyed" by the situation, with no authority to do anything about it, merely highlights the impotence of the ACCC and the corruption of our government over the long term.
At the end of the day, we have a government whose only commitment to aviation is to promote $50 tickets from MEL to SYD in the interests of "competition" while disregarding monopoly airport car-parking rising to $60/day. What an amazing government.