Energy partner Jamie Guthrie and Competition partner Geoff Petersen give us some good news on the energy transition, along with the challenges that lie ahead -- what the governments and energy networks are doing, the impact of data centres, how to finance it all, and a quasi-carbon tax. Plus merger reform reform gets closer, serial acquisitions in pets and vets, carmakers pull a fast one and the ACCC is furious, and FIFA finds out … All this and Marty McFly with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein. 

Links: 
Dr Emmett Lathrop Brown PhD on 1.21GW 
The long-awaited Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Accountability for Tax Adviser Misconduct and Other Measures) Bill 2026 
More French leave in the Phase 2 Adelaide Hills vet merger, and the beer keg merger is 86ed 
The Furious 7 skydriving scene and the ACCC's case against Subaru 
The Hood's many defeats on The Thunderbirds 
RES Group's 1.21GW 
Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 
Email us at edge@gtlaw.com.au  
Shai-Hulud 

Energy partner Jamie Guthrie and Competition partner Geoff Petersen give us some good news on the energy transition, along with the challenges that lie ahead -- what the governments and energy networks are doing, the impact of data centres, how to finance it all, and a quasi-carbon tax. Plus merger reform reform gets closer, serial acquisitions in pets and vets, carmakers pull a fast one and the ACCC is furious, and FIFA finds out &hellip; All this and Marty McFly with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.&nbsp;
Links:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="2">Dr Emmett Lathrop Brown&nbsp;PhD on&nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/gw5Ejh-SyEE?t=266">1.21GW</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="2">The long-awaited&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r7514">Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Accountability for Tax Adviser Misconduct and Other Measures) Bill 2026</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="2">More French leave in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.accc.gov.au/public-registers/acquisitions-and-mergers-registers/acquisitions-register/vets-central-%E2%80%93-hills-veterinary-centre-0">Phase 2 Adelaide Hills vet merger</a>, and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.accc.gov.au/public-registers/acquisitions-and-mergers-registers/acquisitions-register/microstar-logistics-konvoy">beer keg merger is 86ed</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="2">The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYb43iY2Nk0">Furious 7&nbsp;skydriving scene</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/subaru-in-court-for-allegedly-failing-to-give-independent-repairers-equal-access-to-car-repair-information">ACCC's case against Subaru</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="2"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nutI6fF08rs">The Hood's many defeats</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;The Thunderbirds&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="2">RES Group's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.res-group.com/au/resources/res-sells-large-245mwdc-australian-solar-farm-to-iberdrola/">1.21GW</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="2">Meet the Gilbert + Tobin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gtlaw.com.au/expertise/competition-and-regulation">Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation</a>&nbsp;team&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="2">Email us at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:edge@gtlaw.com.au">edge@gtlaw.com.au</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="9" data-aria-level="2"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ofkdCUDCEqM">Shai-Hulud</a>&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

Get the lowdown on developments in competition law in Australia and around the world with The Competitive Edge, a competition law podcast. Each fortnight Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein explore insights and trends with our resident experts and special guests to give you the competitive edge. 

Get the lowdown on developments in competition law in Australia and around the world with The Competitive Edge, a competition law podcast. Each fortnight Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein explore insights and trends with our resident experts and special guests to give you the competitive edge.&nbsp;

The Competitive Edge

Get the lowdown on developments in 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.

Get the lowdown on developments in competition law in Australia and around the world. Gilbert + Tobin&rsquo;s Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein explore insights and trends with leading experts to give you the competitive edge.

1.21GW: Jamie Guthrie and Geoff Petersen with the good news on the energy transition 

ACCC and AER annual regulatory conference

Golden Globes & HFPA

Eloise Schnierer and Kimberly Peckham

Fiona Jose, Shane Phillips and Rachel Perkins

Danny Gilbert on the corporate challenge

That's a RAP: First Nations leaders Rachel Perkins, Fiona Jose and Shane Phillips join us at the Sydney launch of G+T's new Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan. What's a RAP, what's a Stretch RAP, what's our RAP, and what's the competition and consumer connection? Plus optimism and pessimism, model Ts and AI at the ACCC/AER Regulatory Conference, the Golden Globes lodge the Penske File, and the plan to wrap the Opera House. All this and more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein. 

Links:   
Things that Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped or wanted to wrap 
Jayde Richmond from the National Anti-Scam Centre at the Bannerman Competition Lecture 
AER's final decision on the Basslink conversion 
Marinus Link and Marinus Dijkhuizen  
G+T on the new mandatory standards for large-scale data centres and the Office of AI 
Bono at the 2003 Golden Globes (NSFW)  
Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 
Email us at edge@gtlaw.com.au  

That's a RAP: First Nations leaders Rachel Perkins, Fiona Jose and Shane Phillips join us at the Sydney launch of G+T's new Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan. What's a RAP, what's a Stretch RAP, what's our RAP, and what's the competition and consumer connection? Plus optimism and pessimism, model Ts and AI at the ACCC/AER Regulatory Conference, the Golden Globes lodge the Penske File, and the plan to wrap the Opera House. All this and more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.&nbsp;
Links:  &nbsp;
<ul>
<li data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="2">Things that Christo and Jeanne-Claude&nbsp;<a href="https://kaldorartprojects.org.au/john-remembers-christo-and-jeanne-claude/">wrapped or wanted to wrap</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="2">Jayde Richmond from the National Anti-Scam Centre at the&nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/dJ1KPYSe2PM?t=104">Bannerman Competition Lecture</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="2">AER's final decision on the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aer.gov.au/industry/registers/determinations/basslink-determination-2025-30/final-decision-basslink-conversion">Basslink conversion</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="2"><a href="https://www.marinuslink.com.au/">Marinus Link</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinus_Dijkhuizen">Marinus&nbsp;Dijkhuizen</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="2">G+T on the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gtlaw.com.au/insights/australian-government-announces-mandatory-ai-standards-for-large-scale-data-centres-and-new-office-of-ai">new mandatory standards for large-scale data centres and the Office of AI</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="2">Bono at the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEIWI15F6aA">2003 Golden Globes</a>&nbsp;(NSFW)&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="2">Meet the Gilbert + Tobin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gtlaw.com.au/expertise/competition-and-regulation">Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation</a>&nbsp;team&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="2">Email us at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:edge@gtlaw.com.au">edge@gtlaw.com.au</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

That’s a RAP! Reconciliation, competition law and the corporate challenge

Phase 2 roundup

Coles merger rejected

First phase 2 withdrawals

Two new phase 2's

Saipem /Subsea7

Zoetis / Neogen Genomics Business

First exceptional circumstances declaration

Scambling and other portmanteaux

Interview with Elizabeth Avery

Wrap up

Partner Elizabeth Avery gives us a world tour of new directions in competition law, theories of harm and merger review both here and overseas, and lessons from our role in the Paramount / Warner Bros merger. Plus news you can use on all the Phase 2s, declarations and exemptions in exceptional circumstances, scambling and other portmanteaux, and how to watch — and how definitely not to watch — The Odyssey …  All this and — — — with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein. 

Links: 
Twenty Twenty Six on the BBC and the ABC  
How Perez Prado's Mambo No. 5 became that other one 
Coles's applications to the Competition Tribunal and the Federal Court 
L1 Dominette 01449's genome 
The Government's "exceptional circumstances" bill and the ACCC's class exemption 
The National Anti-Scam Centre's "scambling" taskforce and NSW's "betiquette" spot 
The Washington Post on all the ways you can watch The Odyssey 
Or you could read it! 
Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 
Email us at edge@gtlaw.com.au  

 

Partner Elizabeth Avery gives us a world tour of new directions in competition law, theories of harm and merger review both here and overseas, and lessons from our role in the Paramount / Warner Bros merger. Plus news you can use on all the Phase 2s, declarations and exemptions in exceptional circumstances, scambling and other portmanteaux, and how to watch &mdash; and how definitely not to watch &mdash; The Odyssey&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp; All this and &mdash; &mdash; &mdash; with co-hosts&nbsp;Moya Dodd&nbsp;and&nbsp;Matt Rubinstein.&nbsp;
Links:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="2">Twenty Twenty Six&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002stzw">BBC</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://iview.abc.net.au/show/twenty-twenty-six">ABC</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="2">How Perez Prado's Mambo No. 5&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpA5Gs65ZHI">became that other one</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="2">Coles's applications to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.competitiontribunal.gov.au/current-matters/act-1-of-2026">Competition Tribunal</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.comcourts.gov.au/file/Federal/P/NSD1310/2026/actions">Federal Court</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="2">L1 Dominette 01449's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/1378962608">genome</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="2">The Government's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=s1493">"exceptional circumstances" bill</a>&nbsp;and the ACCC's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2026L00832/latest/text">class exemption</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="2">The National Anti-Scam Centre's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nasc.gov.au/news/new-taskforce-to-tackle-%E2%80%98scambling%E2%80%99-as-fake-online-casinos-target-first-nations-australians">"scambling" taskforce</a>&nbsp;and NSW's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLiWFQ8JSuo">"betiquette"</a>&nbsp;spot&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="2">The Washington Post&nbsp;on&nbsp;all the ways you can watch&nbsp;The Odyssey&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="2">Or you could&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1727/1727-h/1727-h.htm">read</a>&nbsp;it!&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="9" data-aria-level="2">Meet the Gilbert + Tobin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gtlaw.com.au/expertise/competition-and-regulation">Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation</a>&nbsp;team&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="10" data-aria-level="2">Email us at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:edge@gtlaw.com.au">edge@gtlaw.com.au</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
&nbsp;

Twenty Twenty Six: Elizabeth Avery on international antitrust, merger review and theories of harm after the World Cup

ACCC's new streamlined exemption powers

Unfair contract term cases:  Miyagi and Prime

Prohibition against excessive pricing

New ACCC merger FAQs

Bill to modify merger regime

Interview with Tanya Macdonald & Haidee Leung

Partner Tanya Macdonald and Special Counsel Haidee Leung join us to talk about the first year of the new merger regime -- half-voluntary, half-mandatory -- how it started, how it's going, what's changed and the changes to come. Plus exceptional circumstances call for exceptional measures, the ACCC whacks Miyagi and probes Prime for unfair contract terms, and new rules target supermarket price-gouging … All this and the Anzac Act with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.

Links: 
The Thursday Murder Club on Netflix 
Is the Strait of Hormuz open? or Is the Strait of Hormuz closed? 
G+T on the ACCC's new powers to act in exceptional circumstances 
The ACCC's court action against Miyagi and Amazon for unfair contract terms 
ACCC media release, guidelines and the industry code on supermarket excessive pricing 
The ACCC's latest merger FAQs 
G+T on the latest changes to the merger control regime 
SBS on Anzac cookies and biscuits 
"Wogball: Australia's Beautiful Game" on SBS 
Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 
Email us at edge@gtlaw.com.au  

Partner Tanya Macdonald and Special Counsel Haidee Leung join us to talk about the first year of the new merger regime -- half-voluntary, half-mandatory -- how it started, how it's going, what's changed and the changes to come. Plus exceptional circumstances call for exceptional measures, the ACCC whacks Miyagi and probes Prime for unfair contract terms, and new rules target supermarket price-gouging &hellip; All this and the Anzac Act with co-hosts <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/moyadodd/">Moya Dodd</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-rubinstein-8b7711133/">Matt Rubinstein</a>.
Links:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="2"><a href="https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/thursday-murder-club-cast-release-date-plot">The Thursday Murder Club</a>&nbsp;on Netflix&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="2"><a href="https://straits.live/is-the-strait-of-hormuz-open">Is the Strait of Hormuz open?</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://straits.live/is-the-strait-of-hormuz-closed">Is the Strait of Hormuz closed?</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="2">G+T on the ACCC's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gtlaw.com.au/insights/accc-gains-fast-track-exemption-and-authorisation-powers-in-exceptional-circumstances">new powers to act in exceptional circumstances</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="2">The ACCC's court action against&nbsp;<a href="https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/miyagi-and-its-ceo-in-court-over-alleged-unfair-contract-terms-and-misrepresentations-in-health-program-sales">Miyagi</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/amazon-in-court-for-introducing-ads-to-prime-video-using-allegedly-unfair-contract-terms">Amazon</a>&nbsp;for unfair contract terms&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="2">ACCC&nbsp;<a href="https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-to-monitor-supermarket-compliance-with-new-excessive-pricing-prohibition">media release</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.accc.gov.au/about-us/publications/guidelines-on-compliance-and-enforcement-for-the-supermarkets-excessive-pricing-prohibition">guidelines</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-to-monitor-supermarket-compliance-with-new-excessive-pricing-prohibition">industry code</a>&nbsp;on supermarket excessive pricing&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="2">The ACCC's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.accc.gov.au/frequently-asked-questions-about-merger-reform">latest merger FAQs</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="2">G+T on the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gtlaw.com.au/insights/bill-introduces-critical-key-changes-to-australias-merger-control-regime">latest changes to the merger control regime</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="2">SBS on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/what-you-can-and-cant-call-anzac-biscuits/htzkgflfi">Anzac cookies and biscuits</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="9" data-aria-level="2"><a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/wogball-australias-beautiful-game/2502347843944">"Wogball: Australia's Beautiful Game"</a>&nbsp;on SBS&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="10" data-aria-level="2">Meet the Gilbert + Tobin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gtlaw.com.au/expertise/competition-and-regulation">Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation</a>&nbsp;team&nbsp;</li>
<li data-aria-posinset="11" data-aria-level="2">Email us at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:edge@gtlaw.com.au">edge@gtlaw.com.au</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

1.21GW: Jamie Guthrie and Geoff Petersen with the good news on the energy transition

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