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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Kelly Burke

Labor ‘taking action’ on dynamic pricing after cost of tickets to Lady Gaga’s Sydney and Melbourne concerts sparks outrage

Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga at Coachella earlier this month. Ticketmaster and Ticketek have denied that dynamic pricing is in operation for her Australian concerts in December. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella

The federal government says it is continuing to work on a crackdown on dynamic pricing, “drip pricing” and hidden fees after prices for even the cheapest tickets for Lady Gaga’s Sydney and Melbourne concerts more than quadrupled soon after going on general sale on Thursday.

“There should be no hidden costs that suddenly appear at the end of a transaction and the government is taking action on this,” the arts minister, Tony Burke, told Guardian Australia.

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