The Competitive Edge
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Get the lowdown on developments in competition law in Australia and around the world with The Competitive Edge, a competition law podcast. Each fortnight Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein explore insights and trends with our resident experts and special guests to give you the competitive edge.
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- Simon Says: Simon Muys on legal sector engagement with government and recent trends in law and enforcement · 39 min · Episode 98G+T partner and new Chair of the Law Council's Competition and Consumer Committee Simon Muys joins us to talk about the legal sector's engagement with government, recent trends…
- Greenland: Romany Webb on regulatory whiplash and the future of energy in the US · 38 min · Episode 97Romany Webb, Deputy Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University takes us through the whiplash of the energy transition in the United States, from…
- The Equalizer: Commissioner Luke Woodward on the new era of enforcement at the ACCC · 44 min · Episode 96Commissioner Luke Woodward takes us through the ACCC's evolving approach to enforcement – from undertakings and infringement notices to dawn raids and court action – and how the…
- 1.21GW: Jamie Guthrie and Geoff Petersen with the good news on the energy transition · 41 min · Episode 95Energy partner Jamie Guthrie and Competition partner Geoff Petersen give us some good news on the energy transition, along with the challenges that lie ahead -- what the…
- That’s a RAP! Reconciliation, competition law and the corporate challenge · 44 min · Episode 94That's a RAP: First Nations leaders Rachel Perkins, Fiona Jose and Shane Phillips join us at the Sydney launch of G+T's new Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan. What's a RAP…
- Twenty Twenty Six: Elizabeth Avery on international antitrust, merger review and theories of harm after the World Cup · 41 min · Episode 93Partner Elizabeth Avery gives us a world tour of new directions in competition law, theories of harm and merger review both here and overseas, and lessons from our role in the…
- The Thursday Merger Club: Tanya Macdonald and Haidee Leung on the first year of the new merger regime · 42 min · Episode 92Partner Tanya Macdonald and Special Counsel Haidee Leung join us to talk about the first year of the new merger regime -- half-voluntary, half-mandatory -- how it started, how…
- The Running Man: Dr Andrew Leigh MP on AI, National Competition Policy, non-competes and unfair trading practices · 36 min · Episode 91Dr Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury joins us to talk about AI, the revitalised National Competition Policy, non-competes and…
- Smoke and Stack: Professor Julian Wright on competition and regulation up and down the AI stack. · 45 min · Episode 90Professor Julian Wright from the National University of Singapore joins us to talk about competition and regulation up and down the AI stack -- from the chips to the chatbots and…
- TSLRIC Poetry: Dr Lilla Csorgo on merger control, ex ante regulation, economics and literature · 32 min · Episode 89Dr Lilla Csorgo, lay member of the High Court of New Zealand, joins us to talk about being Chief Economist in three different countries, approaches to ex ante regulation and…
- Bannerman - The Legend of Ron Bannerman: ACCC Commissioner Luke Woodward on the development of competition law in Australia and the centrality of enforcement · 39 min · Episode 88ACCC Commissioner Luke Woodward delivered this year's Bannerman Competition Lecture (jointly hosted by the Business Law Section of the LCA and the ACCC), tracking the development…
- O, for Hormuz of Fire: Geoff Petersen on the regulatory response to the fuel shocks that are raising prices and causing shortages around the world. · 40 min · Episode 87G+T Partner Geoff Petersen unpacks the regulatory response to the fuel shocks that are raising prices and causing shortages around the world, including security of energy supply…
- The Secret Agent: Peter Waters and Andrew Low on the rise and the risks of agentic AI in commerce · 40 min · Episode 86Legend emeritus Peter Waters and Partner Andrew Low take us through the rise and the risks of agentic AI in commerce and beyond: how AI agents can organise our holidays and even…
- Xmas in February: Louise Klamka on the ACCC's compliance and enforcement priorities for 2026-27 · 29 min · Episode 85Xmas in February: Partner Louise Klamka takes us behind the scenes of the ACCC's compliance and enforcement priorities and what we can expect in the coming year -- a wake-up call…
- The World's Fair: Liana Witt and David Holmes on Australia's new unfair trading practices proposal · 40 min · Episode 84Partner 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…
- Once Upon a Time in China: Amelia McKellar on merger control, involution-style competition and the accidental sad horse in China · 33 min · Episode 83Special 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…
- How to Host a Merger: Elizabeth Avery and Costas Condoleon on the latest updates to the merger regime and what global counsel need to know about our new system. · 33 min · Episode 82How 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…
- Mergerbot: Simon Muys and Tanya Macdonald on the recent and upcoming refinements to the new merger process · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 81Partners 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 Merger Reform Forum: ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb on the new merger review framework · 44 min · Episode 80ACCC 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…
- DPSI 10 Your Seatbelts: Kate Reader on the Digital Platform Services Inquiry and what's next for the ACCC in digital regulation · 29 min · Episode 79DPSI 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…
