James Panichi
Senior Editor, Asia Pacific at MLex Market Insight
Regulation (antitrust/data privacy) is my beat. Senior Editor - Asia MLex (LexisNexis). Former ABC/POLITICO. EN/IT [email protected] https://t.co/CqrhnY2RxY
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mlex.com | James Panichi
By James Panichi ( May 12, 2025, 06:50 GMT | Insight) -- Australia’s banks have been lobbying the government in a bid to narrow the focus of the struggling data-portability regime, limiting it to consumer bank accounts, credit cards and home loans, according to documents released this week.
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mlex.com | James Panichi
By James Panichi ( May 9, 2025, 07:32 GMT | Insight) -- Uber Technologies has failed in its attempt to scupper a trademark registration by an Australian educational-tutoring company called “Uber Tutors,” which has now been cleared to finalize its application to register the name.
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mlex.com | James Panichi
By James Panichi ( May 8, 2025, 08:11 GMT | Comment) -- The center-left government of Australia has been returned to office with an enhanced electoral majority, handing it a mandate to push ahead with key policies outlined over the past three years. Prominent candidate on the to-do list is the incomplete overhaul of the Privacy Act, a proposal to create an ex ante regime to rein in Big Tech and an elusive trade deal with the European Union.
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mlex.com | James Panichi
By James Panichi ( May 7, 2025, 06:12 GMT | Insight) -- Spotless Facility Services has argued that Ventia Australia and BGIS, both rival companies providing facility services to Australia’s military, weren’t true competitors on several multi-billion-dollar contracts that are at the center of a price-fixing civil lawsuit.
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mlex.com | Martin Coyle |James Panichi
By Martin Coyle and James Panichi ( May 5, 2025, 09:08 GMT | Comment) -- Gambling operator Entain has moved to put itself on a firmer footing, with the recent appointment of Stella David as its head. Near the top of her to-do list is likely to be how to handle civil action taken against the company in Australia for suspected lax money laundering controls, which could lead to a big fine.
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The ACCC entering "not applicable" as the value of its staff's ongoing use of Qantas and Virgin lounges is questionable. Standard lounges have a commercial value. The ACCC has regulatory oversight; it makes decisions that may affect the airlines' bottom line. https://t.co/1OWsoaWGyd
This is crazy. Why would an Australian lawmaker need to be flown across the world by a foreign government? https://t.co/CvsQ9MYqvU
FOI fishing expeditions are part of the reporter's toolbox, but this one's really dumb. As antitrust campaigns target global digital platforms, every second ACCC officials spend meeting their counterparts overseas is time (and money) well spent. This is stupid provincialism. https://t.co/TbUMvWx2kw
