The Competitive Edge Gilbert + Tobin

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.  




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The biggest shakeup of merger regulation in Australia in 50 years is coming into view. Partners Elizabeth Avery and Louise Klamka take us through the major changes and the devilish details that still need to be settled, with additional commentary from partner Simon Muys and winning visualisations from Treasury. Is this faster, stronger and simpler, or just harder? More transparent or less accountable? Plus grocery inquiries and divestiture powers, Soviet industrial policy, irrebuttable presumptions and the ACCC looks for a meeting of the minds with the High Court on the nature of threats and understandings. All this and Rebel Wilson with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of The Competitive Edge podcast. 




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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. Plus the Department of Justice goes bobbing for Apple, the Epic case gets underway in Australia, the Full Federal Court overturns the ACCC's win against the CFM(M)EU, and the Productivity Commission gets back in the game with the new National Competition Policy. All this and the Franklin's Tale with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein and senior correspondent Anna Belgiorno-Nettis. 


US v Apple press release, press conference and complaint
MLex reporting on the Epic v everyone hearing
ACCC v CFM(M)EU Round 1, Round 2 and the ACCC's application for special leave to appeal to Round 3
The Marx Brothers on the secondary boycott provisions
C&C (music f) Act (ory) megamix
Productivity Commission's assessment of proposed National Competition Policy reforms
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Change is the only constant, but even change is changing as partner Andrew Low joins us to talk about digital regulation, digital ecosystems and digital payments, and the fight over access to a tiny part of your phone. Plus more constant than change in the ACCC's 2024–25 compliance and enforcement priorities, Epic's battle royale against Google and Apple lands on our island, gatekeepers land their European beachheads on DMA-day, ex-ante regulation proves to be easier said than done, and surf'n'turf at the Qteq cartel hearing. All this and our politicians' favourite films with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein. 


Our update on the ACCC's 2024-25 compliance and enforcement priorities 
Our update on the ACCC's focus on consumer guarantees 
Our annual Competition + Consumer Law Insights publication for 2023-24   
Dr Andrew Leigh in the Australian Book Review 
The Barbie edition of Monopoly 
Results of the RBA's 2022 Consumer Payments Survey 
MLex's coverage of the ACCC v Qteq and Epic v Apple and Google hearings  
RIP Kingsleys Brisbane 
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G+T partner Ilona Millar and Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association Co-Chair Rae Lindsay on global ESG trends, corporate sustainability in Europe, and the unfolding impacts on Australian companies in the first part of a double-header on the emerging field of business and human rights.  

Plus the Tribunal overturns the ref's call on the ANZ/Suncorp merger authorisation, but it's not all bad news for the ACCC; ex-post reviews of mergers; near-record criminal fines for a cartel; and even more Wonka and antitrust in pop culture.  

All this and more next week with co-hosts  Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  




G+T on the Tribunal's authorisation of the ANZ/Suncorp merger 



The ACCC's second ex-post review of past merger decisions 



Mumbrella on Take 5's all-time classic headlines 



ACCC on the criminal penalties in the waste cartel 



Autorité de la Chalomet on the French chocolate cartel 



Wikipedia on the incredible AI-assisted Willy's Chocolate Experience (archived) 



Spencer Weber Waller's "A Pop Culture Guide to Antitrust" and sequel 



Ben Stein on the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act and the Laffer Curve 



ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb's AFR op-ed on digital platform regulation 



Shop Talk: G+T's latest consumer law update   



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Partners Elizabeth Avery and Simon Muys take us through the latest on the merger reform debate, how the ACCC's position has evolved and how its package deal might be unbundled.  

Plus time is a flat circle with supermarket inquiries and the cozzie livs, disrupting the Chocolate Cartel with Willy Dubs, expensive typos from Mariner I to the latest real estate scams, and dance hall revivals from West Ham to "No Whyalla Wipeout".  

All this and more AI fingers with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of The Competitive Edge Podcast. 




The great dance hall merger of 1926 via Trove 



Macquarie Dictionary's word of the year for 2023 



Cost of living and supermarket price inquiries from Prof Allan Fels, the Senate Select Committee, and Dr Craig Emerson 



Skyhooks, "Horror Movie" for no particular reason 



Justus Haucap & Christina Heldman, "On the sociology of cartels", European Journal of Law and Economics (2023) 56:289-323 



The most expensive hyphen in history and a fairly expensive "s" 



Elizabeth and Simon on merger reform in the AFR 



Submissions to Treasury on merger reform from the ACCC (1 2 3) and the Law Council of Australia (1 2) 



The Tech team on deepfakes and Peter Waters on AI in the law 



Nadia Buttendorf's FINGERring vs Sam Kerr in the AFR.  



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