James Panichi
Senior Editor, Asia Pacific at MLex Market Insight
Reporter for MLex (LexisNexis). Former ABC/POLITICO. EN/IT [email protected] https://t.co/CqrhnY2RxY NB: I'M MOVING TO OTHER PLATFORM
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3 weeks ago |
mlex.com | James Panichi
By James Panichi ( June 3, 2025, 19:00 GMT | Insight) -- A trial of facial-recognition technology, or FRT, by a New Zealand supermarket chain has been declared compliant with the country’s laws, in a significant breakthrough for retailers clamoring to use the technology to fight crime in their stores.
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3 weeks ago |
mlex.com | James Panichi
By James Panichi ( June 3, 2025, 05:44 GMT | Insight) -- Mastercard and Australia’s competition watchdog have agreed to allow a judge to review whether documents at the center of a long-running antitrust case should be covered by legal-professional privilege or should be allowed as evidence in the lawsuit. A Federal Court of Australia judge hearing the case in Sydney today said he would ask another judge to review the professional-privilege claim at a date to be determined.
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3 weeks ago |
mlex.com | James Panichi
By James Panichi ( June 2, 2025, 08:23 GMT | Insight) -- The failure of Australia’s antitrust watchdog to win a lawsuit against a port operator “says nothing” about the prospects of Mayfield Development Corporation in suing the same company, given that the allegations and the evidence are substantially different, the country’s top court has heard.
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1 month ago |
mlex.com | James Panichi
By James Panichi ( May 26, 2025, 08:08 GMT | Insight) -- Mayfield Development’s claims that a court erred in granting port operators “derivative” immunity in an antitrust case hinges on a bespoke state law that was enacted to facilitate a one-off set of transactions, an Australian state government has told the country’s highest court.
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1 month ago |
mlex.com | James Panichi
By James Panichi ( May 23, 2025, 09:17 GMT | Comment) -- Telegram Messenger and X have both launched lawsuits targeting Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant over her attempts to hold Big Tech responsible for illegal material their users may send.
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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
