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Continuity and Change: Simon Muys on the ACCC's compliance and enforcement priorities for 2025-26
Click here to listen to the audio. The ACCC's compliance and enforcement priorities are here and Partner Simon Muys reads between the lines on the new merger framework, the global zeitgeist and where private litigation fits in. Plus a re-evaluation of competition law, regulation and national champions; DeepSeek takes the Fast and Furious challenge; all the Niue/New Zealand numismatics news; and a new competition-law-themed cryptic crossword to reflect these convoluted times.
Competition and Consumer Insights 2025
Find out more about Lexology or get in touch by visiting our About page. Register To view this article you need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Reader. If you can't read this PDF, you can view its text here. Go back to the PDF . Australia February 19 2025 Competition and Consumer Insights 2025 G+T’s take on the major trends and data from 2024 and outlook for 2025 gtlaw.com.au 2Gilbert + Tobin | Competition and Consumer Insights 2025 Welcome to our annual Competition and Consumer Insights.
Trading Places: New ACCC Commissioner Dr Philip Williams on competition law and economics, concentration and paradigms.
Click here to listen to the audio. New ACCC Commissioner Dr Philip Williams AM trades a long history in economics in the private sector and academia for a crucial role with the competition regulator. He joins partner Simon Muys to discuss the history and future of competition law and economics, from misuse of market power to the structure–conduct–performance paradigm.
Not Guilty by Association: Tanya Macdonald on collaboration without collusion in industry associations.
Click here for the audio. Partner Tanya Macdonald on how industry associations and their members can promote industry, consumer and public interest goals while staying on the right side of the law. Plus Apple loosens up on contactless payments, with a few complications; the ACCC gets creative with Google search defaults; a 3-to-2 merger in credit reporting sails through; and the High Court gears up to untangle contracts, arrangements and understandings.
Handle the Jandal: NZCC Chief Economist Douglas Rathbun on Generative AI, Coffeenomics, and Competition Policy
Click here to listen to the audio. NZCC Chief Economist and former DoJ Counsel Douglas Rathbun speaks to Special Counsel Haidee Leung about why New Zealand is the best place in the world to think about the future of competition policy, regulation of nascent technologies like generative AI, how the Commerce Commission is adapting to new challenges and, controversially, who really invented the flat white.
Draft Day: Elizabeth Avery and Simon Muys on the game-changing merger review reform Bill
Click here to listen to the audio. The Government has released a hundred pages of draft amendments to the merger review framework, and partners Elizabeth Avery and Simon Muys talk us through the devil in all that detail. What does the new process mean for procedural fairness? How does the new test affect the whole of the competition law? Is this faster or a disaster, stronger or just longer, simpler or whatever rhymes with simpler?
Saving ryan's privacy: Melissa Fai on the big Changes Coming to privacy law and enforcement
Click here to listen to the audio. Technology + Digital Partner Melissa Fai takes us through the seismic changes to the Privacy Act now expected in August, with new protections for individuals, obligations on business and powers for the regulator to match the massive increase in maximum penalties we saw in 2022.
Safety not Guaranteed: amelia mckellar on the ACCC's plans to turbo-charge Australia's consumer guarantees.
Click here to listen to the audio. The ACCC is calling for reform to the consumer guarantee regime to make non-compliance a contravention — similar to unfair contract terms. Currently the guarantees are the top issue for complaints to the ACCC, and they can lead to millions in penalties even though they don't have the force of law. Special Counsel Amelia McKellar takes us through these paradoxes and what the ACCC wants to do about them.
Altered carbon: romany webb on regulatory approaches to carbon reduction and removal on the path to net zero and beyond
Click here to listen to the audio G+T alumna Romany Webb joins us from the Sabin Centre for Climate Change Law at Columbia University to talk about regulatory approaches to carbon dioxide reduction and removal on the critical path to net zero and beyond.
Bonus Episode: good sports: rachel Davis and mary harvey on how human rights principles from the business world have been applied to sport
Click here to listen to the audio. In this bonus episode, we rejoin the ESG, Sport and Human Rights Forum, where host Moya Dodd spoke with Women's World Cup winner Mary Harvey, now the CEO of the Centre for Sport and Human Rights, and Rachel Davis, co-founder of the Shift Project and former independent chair of FIFA's Human Rights Advisory Board, about culture, sustainability, leadership and change through a human rights approach in the world of sport.
Chilling effects: anne catherine faye on antitrust, economics and sustainability
Click here to listen to the audio. Anne Catherine Faye, Economist and Counsel to the Chair of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section, takes us through the complicated landscape of antitrust, economics and sustainability in the US and beyond.
Everything everywhere all at once: amelia mckellar and the multi-jurisdiction of Mergers
Click here to listen to the audio. Special Counsel Amelia McKellar guides us through the multiverse of multijurisdictional ("MJ") mergers, and how to navigate the conjunction of thresholds, deadlines, agencies and advisers and arrive at the singularity of success.
The View from 9,144 metres: Professor Frédéric Jenny on Climate Change, AI and Digital Platforms
Click here to listen to the audio. OECD Competition Committee Chair Professor Frédéric Jenny joins us to talk about the long arc of the competition law universe, from the Chicago School through COVID to climate change, digital platforms and artificial intelligence.
I'm the Problem, It's Me: Liana Witt on Individual Liability for Competition Law Contraventions
Click here to listen to the audio. Even as maximum corporate penalties go through the roof, there may be more deterrence in pursuing a business's officers and employees. Partner Liana Witt talks us through individual liability for competition law contraventions and how not to end up as the anti-hero.
Power to the People: geoff petersen on the implications of the origin energy authorisation and the race to connect renewable power generation to the network
Click here to listen to the audio. Partner Geoff Petersen gives us the buzz on the new National Energy Objectives, which now include the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the ACCC's authorisation of Brookfield’s acquisition of Origin Energy on green grounds, and what they mean for competition as the energy transition accelerates.
Marathon Man: The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, on justice, equality and the friendliness of the long-distance runner.
Click here to listen to the audio. It's been a busy first year for the new Australian government, with big changes in competition and consumer law and regulation and plenty more to come. Dr Leigh MP tells us what brought him to his portfolio, what keeps him going and how he sees concentration in Australian markets.
Florence + The Machine: Partner Simon Muys on Developments in European Competition Law and the Recent IBA Conference in the Tuscan Capital.
Click here to listen to the audio. Partner Simon Muys returns from the International Bar Association Competition Conference in Italy with the latest developments in European competition law, digging into the Jarndyce-scale Intel litigation and the Illumina/Grail blood offering. What do these trends reveal and what do they mean for Australia in a time of global antitrust coordination and domestic change? We ask the Machine.
Straight Outta Competition: Dr Philip Marsden on Specialist Tech Regulation, Ultramarathons and Bringing Rap to Competition Law
Click here to listen to the audio. Dr Philip Marsden is a Professor of Law and Economics, an ultra-marathon runner, an antitrust rapper and a co-author of the Furman report into digital competition, and he joins us to talk about all these things and more. Plus everything that's happened since the last episode: regulations, consultations, user locations, triangulations, revised variations, and artificial intelligence gets fast and furious.
Number five is alive: ACCC digital platforms chief kate reader on the latest report of the big tech inquiry and the argument for upfront regulation.
Click here to listen to the audio. Half-time at the ACCC's five-year Digital Platform Services Inquiry sees the agency reflecting on changes in the high-tech sector and recommending a new approach to regulation, with up-front or ex-ante rulemaking in additional to traditional enforcement. Digital Platforms Branch General Manager Kate Reader discusses the ACCC's proposals and what they would mean for big tech, small business and consumers.
Green zone: power shifts in state and national regulation in energy and beyond, with special counsel geoff petersen.
Click here to listen to the audio. It's state vs state as national regulation lags behind environmental imperatives. Special Counsel Geoff Petersen takes us through how regulated industries are shaped by the turbulent history of federalism - including Mark Twain's train ride to Albury. Plus the real takeaway from the Optus hack, new maximum penalties, an overhaul of unfair contract terms provisions and we raise the curtain on Opera Australia under its new Chair.
The Competitive Edge with Gilbert + Tobin
Click here to listen to audio Get the lowdown on competition law in Australia and around the world. Gilbert + Tobin’s Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein explore insights and trends with leading experts to give you the competitive edge.
Why I Play for Iraq
I was checking my Facebook page when the message popped up. “Are you Iraqi?” it read. Nothing else. This was in 2013. I honestly didn’t know what to think at first. Being someone of Middle Eastern descent who was born and raised in the United States, and living in a post-9/11 America, can be tough. And I can’t ignore that while playing in MLS I’ve had a few fans of other teams call me a “smelly terrorist” and shout racial slurs at me during games.
DIY | By Moya Dodd
Unless you meant Australian Rules football, which most certainly was a big deal. But football football? What some folks call soccer? Not at all. I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. My parents didn’t play, my grandparents didn’t play, and nobody in my family had any clue about football. Yet somehow it became the center of my life. I played on the Australian national team. I was one of the first few women on the FIFA executive committee.
Opinion | FIFA Needs More Women (Published 2015)
Op-Ed Contributor Nov. 19, 2015 Carli Lloyd of United States celebrating her third goal against Japan during the first half of the FIFA Women's World Cup in June.Credit...Elaine Thompson/Associated Press SYDNEY, Australia — After enduring months of corruption scandals, FIFA, the governing body of global soccer, is under intense pressure to reform.
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