Partner Liana Witt and lawyer David Holmes take us through the Australian government's plan to prohibit unfair trading practices -- with all the low-down on subscription traps and drip pricing, the tests and the penalties, and how businesses can prepare for the new rules. Plus, the ACCC's compliance and enforcement priorities for 2026-27, what's going down down down at the Coles pricing hearing, and even more changes to the US antitrust landscape … All this and Buffalo buffalo with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.   

Links:   

• The Garden Palace Fire of 1882 
• G+T on the ACCC's compliance and enforcement priorities for 2026-17 
• Lian and David on the government's unfair trading practices proposal 
• Buffalo buffalo and had had had had 
• New York Times on Gail Slater's departure from the Antitrust Division 
• What is a possession arrow in basketball or merger review? 
• We're All Going to the World's Fair trailer 
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 
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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.        

 Links:   

• 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 
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How to Host a Merger: In our special Antipodean summer edition, head of Competition Elizabeth Avery and co-head of Corporate Advisory and M&A, Costas Condoleon, share their experiences with Australia’s new merger regime so far, with a focus on multijurisdictional mergers, foreign investment, and global counsel. Notification thresholds, forms and fees, engaging with the competition and foreign investment regulators, information requirements and timeframes, conditions precedent and how to avoid gun-jumping … all this and board games with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of #TheCompetitiveEdge #podcast #competitionlaw

Links: 

• How to host a How to Host a Murder, original and reboot
• Our new merger review portal, Australia’s new merger regime: what you need to know
• All about drop bears, hoop snakes and fishing spiders
• Try our new competition-law-themed cryptic crossword and all our other ones
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team
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Partners Simon Muys and Tanya Macdonald join us to ring in Australia’s new merger clearance regime – what's settled, what's still up in the air and how our clients are navigating the new world in the third but not necessarily final instalment of our webinar series. This episode may qualify for 1 CPD point depending on your jurisdiction. Plus Skarsgårds and Sarsgaards, trilogies of four or more, and our new MergerHub … All this and nothing more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  

• Check out our new hub on Australia's new merger regime: what you need to know 
• Watch a video of the webinar 
• Assistant Minister Andrew Leigh's announcement of refinements to the regime 
• Skarsgårds in Murderbot on Apple TV, It: Welcome to Derry on HBO Max and Andor on Disney+ 
• Desert wildflowers in Broken Hill 
• The Matrix filming locations in Sydney 
• Try our new competition-law-themed cryptic crossword and all our other ones 
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ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb delivers a keynote at our recent forum on the new merger framework that's just around the riverbend: why the change, how to engage with the ACCC, and what's still up in the air. Plus the Chatham chat on fees, thresholds and first-instance decision-making, an agreement on unfair trading practices, the FTC loses its case against Meta, and former chair Lina Khan's new gig in New York … All this and movie posters with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of #TheCompetitiveEdge #podcast #competitionlaw #rrrjrrr

Links:

• The complete The Rural Juror on 30 Rock
• Heraclitus/Pocahontas on social media market definitions (sing-along)
• FTC v Meta memorandum opinion
• Treasury Ministers announcement on unfair trading practices
• The Guardian on Lina Khan's new gig
• John McWhorter on mispronouncing Mamdani
• Drew Struzan and Richard Amsel movie posters
• Our new competition-law-themed cryptic crossword and all our other ones

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DPSI 10 Your Seatbelts: Kate Reader, head of the ACCC's Digital Markets Branch and G+T alum, returns to unpack the landmark Digital Platform Services Inquiry, developments in Australia and overseas and greatly exaggerated rumours about the ACCC's digital team. Plus the newest conference on the competition mafia or knitting circle's calendar, the new acquisitions register hits its stride, and a hot potato for the Wiggles … All this and merger jokes with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  [Links]  

• ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb's speech at the Australian Competition Summit 
• Julian Wright and Andrei Hagiu on Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy 
• The entire Digital Platform Services Inquiry 2020-25 
• Australia's lunar rover Roo-ver 
• The Wiggles on button batteries and electricity more generally 
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 
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The new Scams Prevention Framework will kick in next year with codes of conduct and big penalties for failing to take reasonable steps to combat scams. Competition partner Jeremy Jose and Disputes and Investigations partner Antonia Garling take us through the impact on the telecommunications, digital platform and banking sectors and what this will mean for business and consumers. Plus more tweaks to the new merger process; a green light for Cuscal/Indue but last drinks for MicroStar/Konvoy in the twilight of the old regime, or mergerdämmerung; and a new prohibition on excessive pricing. All this and our upcoming forum on the new merger system with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  

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Moving On Up: Non-compete and no-poach restrictions in employment contracts in the government's sights, and Special Counsels Amelia McKellar and Kaushalya Mataraaratchi explain how long-standing exceptions to the competition law could be put on gardening leave. Plus subscription traps and Amazon's Iliad flow, Taylor Swift and Ticketmaster, Treasury on AI and the ACL, ASIC and ANZ, and a new Commissioner at the ACCC … All this and M People with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  

Breaking News:  

• ACCC announces decisions on two of the eight remaining old school mergers on its register, waving through Cuscal's acquisition of payment facilitation supplier Indue Limited but opposing MicroStar Logistics' acquisition of the assets of keg pooling service provider Konvoy Holdings.  

 Links:  

• M People with "Moving On Up" and Loleatta Holloway with "Love Sensation" and "Ride on Time" 
• The Final Countdown on the ACCC's public informal merger clearance register 
• MN-01019: Ampol's proposed acquisition of retail sites from EG Australia
• FTC and Amazon settle for $US2.5bn over Prime subscriptions 
• FTC takes Ticketmaster to court over resales and price and ticket limits 
• ASIC press release and press conference on ANZ agreed penalties 
• Treasury's Final Report in its review of AI and the ACL 
• G+T on Treasury's consultation on non-competes 
• ABC on the rebel R360 league and eligibility for internationals  
• Treasury and ACCC announce the new ACCC Commissioner 
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 

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Kieran Pender from the Human Rights Law Centre joins us to talk about whistleblowers -- how they're protected, how they engage with regulators, the changes that could be coming, and how businesses can encourage accountability in their own culture and processes. Plus the new merger notification waiver form; firings, re-hirings and re-firings in the US antitrust agencies; Google wins, loses or draws on penalties; the ACCC's purple patch in cartel enforcement and the last informal merger reviews race for the finish line. All this and morels with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of The Competitive Edge podcast.

Breaking News:

• All three judgments and 750,000 words of the Epic Games and class action cases against Apple and Google are now available: Epic v Apple, Epic v Google and all the class action action. Justice Beach has indicated he may be up for additional reasons or judgments on the non-section 46 issues so we may yet break the million-word mark.

Links:

• G+T's analysis of the draft Waiver Notification form
• CJ John Roberts stays the Appeal Court's stay of the stay
• Young MacGyver pilot
• The District Court's penalty decision in US v Google
• ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb's address to the Competition and Consumer Workshop
• New cartel enforcement actions in cranes and cauliflower
• Commitments and understandings in the Delta and BlueScope appeals
• Fisk S02E06 - "Snitches get Riches" on ABC iView
• The last days of chez public informal merger review
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team
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Partner Geoff Petersen joins us fresh from the ACCC/AER Regulatory Conference with the latest on regulating infrastructure, the energy transition, competition and innovation.   Plus the Government's Economic Reform Roundtable; a second leasehold on the ACCC's acquisitions register earns a new frequently asked question; more casualties at the US antitrust agencies; and what even is a notification waiver?   All this and Sudanese cinema with  co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of The Competitive Edge podcast.   [Links]  Breaking news:  

• Treasury has released its draft Notification Waiver form for consultation. G+T's analysis compares the draft form to the short-form notification form.  
• Allegedly former FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter is back at work for now after the DC Circuit Court of Appeals found 2-1 that the administration had no likelihood of success.  

 Links:  

• The first episode of "Conference 27" on YouTube  
• Khartoum Offside on Kanopy 
• G+T on Lease Agreements on the Acquisitions Register 
• We've all been saying "Passiona" wrong 
• Former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roger Alford on the DOJ and the HP-Juniper merger 
• Product placement in the Top Gun movies 
• G+T on safeguarding our energy supply 
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 
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