USC Professor Danny Sokol  joins Partner Louise Klamka and Special Counsel Haidee Leung  to interrogate the need for digital specific regulation. Why the rush for ex ante rules?  What are the risks for Australia's transition to a more digital future? And what does all this have to do with soup? Plus two red lights from the ACCC for Qantas, what The Merge means for the future of Web3, no ports in a perfect storm for the Port of Geelong, and we creep up on small geographic markets in Woolworths' latest acquisition effort.

• ACCC on Karabar then and now, and Prof Julie Clarke on Creepy Acquisitions Discussions Papers and Bills
• Compare the ACCC's 2019 and 2022 Statements of Issues on Qantas/Alliance
• ACCC register and media release on the Port of Geelong
• Parliamentary Inquiry into the implications of common ownership and capital concentration
• The Verge on The Merge
• Mark Knopfler, Going Home (Theme of the Local Hero) on YouTube
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition + Regulation team

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