Former Human Rights Commissioner Prof Ed Santow of the UTS Human Technology Institute joins G+T's Simon Burns, Andrew Hii and Jen Bradley to discuss A.I. governance and ethics, sexy powerpoints and The Simpsons.

Plus the Microsoft/Activision merger levels up, the ACCC grapples with greenwashing, the Tower of Babel is looking kind of shaky, and what's the deal with Secure-a-Spot not securing a spot?

All this and Go The Matildas! with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of The Competitive Edge podcast.

 

Links in the shownotes:

• The Verge has the latest on Microsoft/Activision, except for these sketches from the District Court
• ACCC interim authorisation for collaboration in the transition to renewable electricity
• G+T on the ACCC's draft greenwashing guidelines
• G+T on A.I. and the Tower of Babel
• ACCC v Secure Parking alleging misleading claims about "Secure-a-Spot" service
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition + Regulation team
• Email us at [email protected]

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Collaboration or Collusion? Partner Elizabeth Avery and lawyer Radha Rathi run the ruler over agreements between rivals for sustainability goals, as authorities around the world weigh the competitive landscape against the actual one. Plus traffic lights for toll roads, the sound of mergers, dark patterns in the FTC's case against Amazon, a Marxist critique of artificial intelligence, and fusion cells or hit squads take down investment scams … All this and a looming World Cup with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein

 

• ACCC on Transurban's acquisitions of WestConnex and EastLink
• Get your NSW toll road data at nswtollroaddata.com
• Cece Bell on her graphic novel El Deafo, now a series on Apple TV+
• Read the FTC's dark patterns complaint against Amazon
• New York Magazine/The Verge, Inside the AI Factory/AI is a Lot of Work
• Aleks Wansbrough, What would Marx make of ChatGPT?
• Elizabeth Avery and Radha Rathi on Competitor Collaborations for Environmental Goals
• Greek and Dutch competition authorities on competition law and sustainability agreements
• ACCC and ASIC on the National Anti-Scam Centre's first fusion cell
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition + Regulation team
• Email us at [email protected]

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Climate change and sustainability partner Ilona Millar takes us through the new obligations and imperatives facing many businesses to address their environmental impacts -- individually or through industry collaborations. Plus the ACCC solves a cashflow problem in the Prosegur/Armaguard authorisation, the global golf merger gets into the rough, fresh legs on the field of competition and regulation field. All this and more sports references with with co-hosts Moya Dodd AO and Matt Rubinstein NST.

 

 

• ACCC authorises the Prosegur/Armaguard merger
• Is that a Goulburn Valley canned deciduous fruit snack?
• Vox's interview with Tim Wu on the LIV Golf/PGA situation
• The OAIC's FOI disclosure log
• Ceremonial Sitting of the Full Federal Court to welcome Chief Justice Mortimer
• Ilona Millar and the team on the Safeguard Mechanism
• ACCC response to FOI Request 100067/2022-2023 on documents relating to the proposed changes to Australia's merger laws
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition + Regulation team
• Email us at [email protected]

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US DOJ economist Dr Brian Clark joins us to talk about equity and antitrust, labor and monopsony markets, and what Stephen King has in common with poultry processors. Plus the latest on Microsoft's Activision acquisition from the CMA, DG COMP, the FTC and the ACCC, Woolworths' Karabar carry-on, Justice French's arsonist bounces into life, and lawyers learn the limits of large language models.

 

• Tim Lapetino's The Art of Atari
• EVP Margrethe Vestager on behavioural remedies and Microsoft
• ACCC v Woolworths and Karabar I and II
• ABC News on jumping castle arson attacks
• Katharine Kemp, "The Case Against French J's Arsonist" (2015) 43 ABLR 228
• DC District Court opinion re Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster
• CNBC on name, image and likeness rights and women's college sports
• ChatGPT on whether a lawyer should use ChatGPT for legal citations
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition + Regulation team
• Email us at [email protected]

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Springtime in Washington: G+T lawyer Anna Belgiorno-Nettis spoke at the world's largest antitrust meeting and now reports back on equity and fairness in competition law, how the major antitrust jurisdictions are getting things done, and how Australia stacks up. Plus the world's friendliest conference and the Chatham House rule, the latest on digital platforms, including the UK's DMU and DMCC and the EU's DMA and DSA, and the godfathers of artificial intelligence and stupidity … All this and more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein

• "Springtime in Washington" (1971) by Alma Woodsey Thomas
• ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb and Commissioner Liza Carver at the Hodgekiss Competition Law Conference
• The Chatham House Rule (official) and the Cider House Rules (wrongly reported by ChatGPT)
• Writers Guild of America demands and counters
• ACCC DPSI Interim Report No. 6 on social media services
• The UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
• MLex on designations under the European Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act
• G+T on Artificial Intelligence and misinformation
• Vox on chatbots from Eliza to ChatGPT
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition + Regulation team
• Email us at [email protected]

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Special Counsel Sarah Lynch brings us all sorts of reports on ports, as NSW Ports scores a win against the ACCC and critical infrastructure and privatisation remain in the crosshairs for regulators and enforcers. Plus the ACCC's plans to overhaul merger approvals and turn back the Qantas acquisition of Alliance; the new Stanford AI Index and our own index of Als and Alis; severed Viking heads and Norse poetry. All this and more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein

• G+T on the ACCC's proposed reforms to Australia's merger control regime
• ACCC on its opposition to Qantas's acquisition of Alliance Aviation Services
• Arsenal ft Steph Catley forced to alight from burning plane
• An actual first draft of Yellowjackets
• Macquarie Dictionary's words of the year for 2022
• G+T's Peter Waters on the Stanford Al Index Report Part 1 and Part 2
• ACCC v NSW Ports First Instance and Appeal
• G+T on the new NSW Government's Infrastructure Red Book
• Women's World Cup ticketing kerfuffles then and now
• The Skaldic Project's big list of kennings and list of big kennings
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition + Regulation team
• Email us at [email protected]

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It's been a busy first year for the new Australian government, with big changes in competition and consumer law and regulation and plenty more to come. Dr Leigh MP tells us what brought him to his portfolio, what keeps him going and how he sees concentration in Australian markets.

Plus the Productivity Inquiry meets the Economic Dynamism Inquiry, a virtual ecosystem of digital ecosystem news from dating to default dance moves, and a High Court victory for Botox alternatives and comparative advertising.

All this and more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of The Competitive Edge podcast.

• The Final Report of the Productivity Commission's Productivity Inquiry, Advancing Prosperity
• The House Economics Committee's Inquiry Into Promoting Economic Dynamism, Competition and Business Formation
• G+T on the Digital Platform Services Inquiry's Interim Report No. 7 on expanding digital ecosystems
• FTC press release on its final order against Fortnite for dark patterns
• MLex on Dutch dating apps swiping left on Apple's App store commitments
• G+T on the High Court decision on Botox v Protox
• All the latest from Dr Andrew Leigh MP
• The longest West Wing walk-and-talk
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition + Regulation team
• Email us at [email protected]

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Partner Simon Muys returns from the International Bar Association Competition Conference in Italy with the latest developments in European competition law, digging into the Jarndyce-scale Intel litigation and the Illumina/Grail blood offering. What do these trends reveal and what do they mean for Australia in a time of global antitrust coordination and domestic change? We ask the Machine.

 

Plus we look at the ACCC's new enforcement and compliance priorities and its recent green sweep, short thoughts on the ports in the courts, what's next for the Digital Platform Services Inquiry, the release of our annual analysis of competition enforcement, and smurf-smurfing at the Smurfic Games (or the Olympic Smurfs) …

 

All this and more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of The Competitive Edge with Gilbert + Tobin.

 

• G+T's summary of the ACCC's 2023-24 compliance and enforcement priorities
• G+T's competition and consumer law year in review
• Australian Financial Review interview with ACCC Deputy Chair Catriona Lowe
• G+T's summary of ASIC's greenwashing action against Mercer
• The Guardian on price-fixing at the Tokyo Olympics
• The Danish Competition and Consumer Authority on detecting collusion with computational methods
• The Battler's Prince
• The Competitive Edge Cryptic Crossword #3
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition + Regulation team

• Email us at [email protected]

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ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb, consumer advocate Gerard Brody and G+T partner Elizabeth Avery discuss the role of fairness in competition and consumer law and the proposed prohibition on unfair trading practices . With a special introduction from Assistant Minister for Competition Dr Andrew Leigh. Plus a course change for privacy protections with the Attorney-General's Report, cartels and creature comforts in the Pilbara, ambition and distraction at the Federal Trade Commission, and word-checking the Treasurer's essay on markets

Links:

• Highlights and hot takes on the Privacy Act Review from G+T's Technology + Digital team
• ACCC on alleged bid-rigging in mining camp IT and entertainment services
• Laurel Henning's interview with ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb in Mlex
• FTC policy statement on expansion of unfair methods of competition and Commissioner Wilson's dissent
• "Hold On" (1990) by Wilson Phillips
• Background and summary of the recent unfairness panel at G+T
• Capitalism After the Crisis by The Hon Dr Jim Chalmers MP, Treasurer
• Senate Economics Committee discusses the Treasurer's essay (skip to 16:14:30)
• GCR's Q&A with Chair Olha Pishchanska of Ukraine's Anti-Monopoly Committee
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition + Regulation team
• Email us at [email protected]

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Dr Philip Marsden is a Professor of Law and Economics, an ultra-marathon runner, an antitrust rapper and a co-author of the Furman report into digital competition, and he joins us to talk about all these things and more. Plus everything that's happened since the last episode: regulations, consultations, user locations, triangulations, revised variations, and artificial intelligence gets fast and furious. All this and more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of The Competitive Edge with Gilbert + Tobin.

 

• Treasury consultation on Digital Platform Regulatory Reform
• Jeremy Jose on the gas price cap in the Australian Financial Review
• ACCC consultation on the NBN Revised Variation to the Special Access Undertaking
• All 25 of Claude's absurd Fast & Furious movie titles
• Digital Competition Expert Panel, Unlocking Digital Competition ft. Dr Philip Marsden
• Dr Philip Marsden's original antitrust rap.
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition + Regulation team
• Email us at [email protected]

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