Special Counsel Amelia McKellar joins us to explore merger control and microchips, industry policy and involution in the world's second-largest economy. Plus, all the news on the new and now mandatory Australian merger framework, G+T's new tool to navigate all those thresholds and forms, the proposed prohibition on unfair trading practices planned for 2027, and a whistleblower bounty in the US … All this and the accidental sad horse with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.        

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• ABC on Australia's Central Western Standard Time Zone (UTC+08:45)  
• The Criterion Collection on the Once Upon a Time in China series  
• The consolidated Notifications Determination and the Forms Determination  
• G+T on the merger changes that came into effect in January 2026 
• Our new merger assessment obligation tool: MerTL 
• Possibly the best book written on the subject of turtle stacking 
• US Antitrust Division and US Postal Service pay $1m whistleblower bounty 
• Check out our episode on whistleblowers with Kieran Pender from last September 
• No-one's far from anyone anymore with the OTC in 1990 
• The Guardian on the accidental sad/crying horse 
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 
• Email us at edge@gtlaw.com.au