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ABLR Trade Practices Act Anniversary Special Edition Vol 52, Part 6 is out.The Guest Editor for this edition was Rob Nicholls, Professional Fellow, UTS: University of Technology, Sydney This edition featured five contributions: * It’s Time – The Trade Practices Act 1974 Then and Now – Ian Wylie* Transforming Australian Business in 23

Check out my
recent video entitled “ACCC Essentials – Understanding the ACCC’s 2025-26
Compliance and Enforcement Priorities” in which I explain the reasons for
the ACCC Priorities, how the ACCC goes about assessing and selecting matters
for further investigation, the ACCC Litigation Funnel and what the 2025-2026
Priorities are.

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Check out my ACCC Cheat Sheet for
December 2024 in which I look at the Federal Court decisions in Meg’s flowers
and Master Wealth Control; enforcement actions against Spotless / Ventia and a NDIS
provider; mergers with divestitures; the ACCC’s Sustainability Collaboration
Guidelines; the Government consultation on digital platforms code of conduct
reforms and heaps

Check out my ACCC Cheat Sheet for
November 2024 in which I discuss the two kind of recent High Court cases Williams v Toyota Motor Corporation
Australia Limited
[2024]
HCA 38 and Capic v Ford Motor Company of Australia Pty Ltd [2024] HCA 39;
a raft of enforcement actions against Getty Images, Magnamail, Koala Living

ABLR Vol 52, Part 5 is out.This edition featured four excellent contributions: * How is ASIC Enforcing the New Financial Product Design and Distribution Obligations? – Lloyd Freeburn and Ian Ramsay AO* Contractor Entitlements to Superannuation: Time for Reform? – Rami Hanegbi* Ecosystem Theories of Harm: Assessing Australian Merger Review Amidst the Competition Issues of Digital

Check out my
ACCC Cheat Sheet – October 2024 in which I discuss a range of developments,
including the Qantas $100 million settlement and its vicarious apology , the
unconscionability case against Optus, the proposed undertaking to get the Sigma
– Chemist Warehouse merger across the line (which as we all know now, does the