Albanese government must ban dynamic pricing and prosecute scalpers, local ticketing agency says

Humanitix co-founders Joshua Ross and Adam McCurdie. ‘Fans should be getting a real chance at a real price and at a fair price,’ Ross says. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

The government must ban dynamic pricing and banish scalpers if consumers are to pay fair prices for concerts, the head of Australia’s largest locally owned ticketing platform says.

Last month the Albanese government said it planned to change consumer laws to address the practice of inflating tickets while customers wait in online queues, known as dynamic pricing, after tickets for the US rock band Green Day’s Australian tour rose to up to $500.