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 |Saloni Sinha
By James Panichi and Saloni Sinha ( April 16, 2025, 07:13 GMT | Comment) -- Australia’s competition enforcer appears ready to pull the trigger on enforcement targeting Google over its dominance of Internet search markets, with a focus on pre-installation deals reached with mobile-phone providers.
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mlex.com | James Panichi
By James Panichi ( April 15, 2025, 04:26 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms sent two of its top Asia-Pacific managers to meet with key Australian competition officials in February to discuss the government’s controversial new policy to force digital platforms to reach agreements with media publishers for the use of news.
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mlex.com | James Panichi
By James Panichi ( April 14, 2025, 09:00 GMT | Comment) -- Last’s week’s decision of key antitrust official Liza Carver to return to private practice was announced at a delicate time for the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, which appears to be close to announcing enforcement-action targeting Google over the pre-installation of its search engine on Android mobile phones.
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theage.com.au | James Panichi
Opinion April 8, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I clearly remember where it happened: it was a CBD intersection, with the car behind me blasting its horn. The sense of extreme isolation that enveloped me was sudden and overwhelming. It was at that moment I realised there was no one left in the state of Victoria — not a soul — who knew how to perform a hook turn.
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mlex.com | James Panichi
By James Panichi ( April 8, 2025, 08:10 GMT | Comment) -- Australia is on the cusp of a regulatory revolution, with dealmakers set to engage with a broad new merger regime that will come into effect in just over two months. Under existing rules, however, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has found itself having to stop the clock on multiple reviews, waiting for the companies behind the deals to cough up the additional information the regulator requires.
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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
