This week on the Watchdog podcast series, Maddocks Partner Aaron Kloczko and Special Counsel Francine Kinkade join host Shaun Temby to discuss the year so far for the healthcare sector. In this episode, you'll hear them discuss consumer and fair trading issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, competition issues in global and domestic supply chains, and other key themes from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) enforcement and priorities for 2022-2023.

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Scammers are becoming more sophisticated — in this episode, you’ll hear from Partner Shaun Temby and Special Counsel Christopher Marsh as they discuss how the ACCC has made it clear that scam awareness is critical to the management of losses. We have no doubt this field will remain a strong focus for the ACCC this year and beyond.

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In the episode, listeners will hear from Partners Shaun Temby, Sonia Sharma and lawyer Tara Dhanushkoti as they discuss the year so far for technology, and digital platforms. Listeners will hear from our experts about some of the ACCC’s key themes and messages from the 2022 and we will discuss how it has performed against its priorities and enforcements.

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In this episode, Amelia Hunter and Declan Peacock are joined by Partner and Built Environment Sector Leader Patrick Ibbotson, who specialises in development and environmental law, climate change, compliance, procurement and local government issues. Patrick shares how climate change is impacting the law, his client work and what future trends we can expect to see in the future in the area of climate change.

In this episode, Declan Peacock and Amelia Hunter interview Senior Associates Lisa Rennie and Thandi Ellis from the Maddocks Development team on their involvement from a development perspective on Melbourne’s STH BANK by Beulah project and the iconic Australia 108 and their involvement in these projects. They also discuss the current trends that they are seeing in the industry and what we can expect to see in the future. 

In our latest podcast, Alicia Albury chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee spoke to Greg Palumbo, a Special Counsel in our Commercial team and Samara Fitzpatrick, a senior Corporate Lawyer at Frasers Property Australia about the importance of inclusion initiatives from a client’s perspective. 

As a client, Samara shares her personal experience of inclusion and talks about how it can impact the client relationship and Greg talks from the other perspective about navigating a client relationship and the difference inclusion and acceptance can make when you are a member of the LGBTI community. 

In this episode, Amelia Hunter and Declan Peacock are joined by Partner Sonia Sharma, who specialises in privacy, cyber and data resilience at Maddocks. Sonia shares her valuable insights into the industry, current legislation, her client work and what future trends we can expect to see in the future.