ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb, consumer advocate Gerard Brody and G+T partner Elizabeth Avery discuss the role of fairness in competition and consumer law and the proposed prohibition on unfair trading practices . With a special introduction from Assistant Minister for Competition Dr Andrew Leigh. Plus a course change for privacy protections with the Attorney-General's Report, cartels and creature comforts in the Pilbara, ambition and distraction at the Federal Trade Commission, and word-checking the Treasurer's essay on markets

Links:

• Highlights and hot takes on the Privacy Act Review from G+T's Technology + Digital team
• ACCC on alleged bid-rigging in mining camp IT and entertainment services
• Laurel Henning's interview with ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb in Mlex
• FTC policy statement on expansion of unfair methods of competition and Commissioner Wilson's dissent
• "Hold On" (1990) by Wilson Phillips
• Background and summary of the recent unfairness panel at G+T
• Capitalism After the Crisis by The Hon Dr Jim Chalmers MP, Treasurer
• Senate Economics Committee discusses the Treasurer's essay (skip to 16:14:30)
• GCR's Q&A with Chair Olha Pishchanska of Ukraine's Anti-Monopoly Committee
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition + Regulation team
• Email us at edge@gtlaw.com.au