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.
Plus turf wars and concerted practices, government action on privacy and buy-now-pay-later arrangements, and Swift justice for Ticketmaster. All this and more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein on The Competitive Edge with Gilbert + Tobin.

The World's Fair: Liana Witt and David Holmes on Australia's new unfair trading practices proposal
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Once Upon a Time in China: Amelia McKellar on merger control, involution-style competition and the accidental sad horse in China
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How to Host a Merger: Elizabeth Avery and Costas Condoleon on the latest updates to the merger regime and what global counsel need to know about our new system.
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