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Romany 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 Green New Deal to Drill Baby Drill, and how governments and courts have made and remade climate policy. Plus IAG and RAC test-drive the new public benefits merger test, Coles takes its Kalgoorlie expansion to the Tribunal, and artificial intelligence becomes super intelligence … All this and Mission Impossible with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  Links:  The New Yorker on all the President's movies  James Hennessy on Sydney at the End of the World  IAG on its public benefits application  Uber Eats in Kalgoorlie-Boulder  Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence  Superintelligence: The Movie  Romany Webb's presentation Our Climate Change and Sustainability team update on the High Court's decision in MACH Energy Australia v Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group   Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]     Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Commissioner 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 ACCC is grappling with, and using, AI. Plus the latest merger reform reforms recalibrate the new regime; the one remedy to rule them all; unfair contract terms and irony in ASIC v CashnGo; and calls for antitrust authorisations to avoid anthropomorphised AI agents absconding … All this and our 5th birthday with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  Links "The Equalizer" intro   Breaker Morant trailer  Edward Woodward's Scottish accent in The Wicker Man  G+T on the latest changes to the merger review framework  The Peter Warren/Wakeling Automotive and Kimberly-Clark/Kenvue deals on the acquisitions register  Kia: The Features Film  The ASIC v Venture 5 Group (t/as CashnGo) proceedings  Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Ian Jackman as Justice Wolverine    ABC on the OpenAI agent breakout in the AI's own words  Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]   Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Energy 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 governments and energy networks are doing, the impact of data centres, how to finance it all, and a quasi-carbon tax. Plus merger reform reform gets closer, serial acquisitions in pets and vets, carmakers pull a fast one and the ACCC is furious, and FIFA finds out … All this and Marty McFly with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  Links:  Dr Emmett Lathrop Brown PhD on 1.21GW  The long-awaited Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Accountability for Tax Adviser Misconduct and Other Measures) Bill 2026  More French leave in the Phase 2 Adelaide Hills vet merger, and the Microstar/Konvoy beer keg merger is 86ed  The Furious 7 skydriving scene and the ACCC's case against Subaru  The Hood's many defeats on The Thunderbirds  The Nelson Review, aka the National Electricity Market wholesale market settings review RES Group's 1.21GW  Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]   Shai-Hulud  Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

That'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, what's a Stretch RAP, what's our RAP, and what's the competition and consumer connection? Plus optimism and pessimism, model Ts and AI at the ACCC/AER Regulatory Conference, the Golden Globes lodge the Penske File, and the plan to wrap the Opera House. All this and more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  Links:    Things that Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped or wanted to wrap  Jayde Richmond from the National Anti-Scam Centre at the Bannerman Competition Lecture  AER's final decision on the Basslink conversion  Marinus Link and Marinus Dijkhuizen   G+T on the new mandatory standards for large-scale data centres and the Office of AI  Bono at the 2003 Golden Globes (NSFW)   Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]   Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Partner 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 Paramount / Warner Bros merger. Plus news you can use on all the Phase 2s, declarations and exemptions in exceptional circumstances, scambling and other portmanteaux, and how to watch — and how definitely not to watch — The Odyssey …  All this and — — — with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  Links:  Twenty Twenty Six on the BBC and the ABC   How Perez Prado's Mambo No. 5 became that other one  Coles's applications to the Competition Tribunal and the Federal Court  L1 Dominette 01449's genome  The Government's "exceptional circumstances" bill and the ACCC's class exemption  The National Anti-Scam Centre's "scambling" taskforce and NSW's "betiquette" spot  The Washington Post on all the ways you can watch The Odyssey  Or you could read it!  Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]     Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Partner 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 it's going, what's changed and the changes to come. Plus exceptional circumstances call for exceptional measures, the ACCC whacks Miyagi and probes Prime for unfair contract terms, and new rules target supermarket price-gouging … All this and the Anzac Act with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein. Links:  The Thursday Murder Club on Netflix  Is the Strait of Hormuz open? or Is the Strait of Hormuz closed?  G+T on the ACCC's new powers to act in exceptional circumstances  The ACCC's court action against Miyagi and Amazon for unfair contract terms  ACCC media release, guidelines and the industry code on supermarket excessive pricing  The ACCC's latest merger FAQs  G+T on the latest changes to the merger control regime  SBS on Anzac cookies and biscuits  "Wogball: Australia's Beautiful Game" on SBS  Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]   Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury joins us to talk about AI, the revitalised National Competition Policy, non-competes and unfair trading practices, and competition on the field and in the economy. Plus, marathons and ultramarathons, the ParaSkyWarBroDisco merger, the 'Australia Plus' UK social media ban, and the ACCC takes Grill'd to court for greenwashing … All this, and Ewar Woowar, with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.     Links:  Richard Bachman at Lilja's Library  Randy Bachman on pronouncing Bachman-Turner Overdrive  Ultraman: Rising on Netflix and "Ultraman Teo" coming soon.   The UK Government announces its "Australia-plus" social media ban  Shakespeare's "Sonnet VI"  ACCC's case against Grill'd press release, concise statement and court file  AEC profile of the electoral division of Fenner  Dr Andrew Leigh's speech on competition policy for AI agents  Anna Goldworthy's "The God We Made: The Threat and Promise of Artificial Intelligence", Quarterly Essay 102   Edward Woodward obituary with unexpected Judi Dench  Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]   Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professor 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 everything in between. Is it winner-takes-all or winner-takes most? Will the digital platforms displace the new labs? And do we need more regulation or less? Plus a competition conference is compliantly considered, Ampol/EG Australia is the first Phase 2 merger approved by the ACCC, the new-look unfair trading practices bill reaches parliament, and AI essays and encyclicals abound … All this and cinematic polycephaly with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.    Links:   Michael B Jordan on playing identical twins Smoke and Stack in Sinners  Three-eyed animals in Train Dreams and The Secret Agent  ACCC approves Ampol's acquisition of EG Australia in first finalised Phase 2  Track the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Unfair Trading Practices) Bill 2026  Damien Charlotin's AI Hallucination Cases Database  Justice Needham, "AI and the Courts in 2025"  Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Letter, "Magnifica Humanitas"  Prof Julian Wright, "Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy" at ScienceDirect  Anna Goldsworthy's Quarterly Essay, "The God We Made: The Threat and Promise of Artificial Intelligence"  The Competitive Edge's cryptic crosswords, conspicuously inspired by Justice Wigney  Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]   Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr 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 merger control, being approximately correct vs precisely wrong, and whether fiction and economics have anything in common. Plus, the ACCC wins against Coles in its “was/now/had been” pricing case, the courts have thoughts on NSW Ports, competition and consumer initiatives in the federal budget, and competition and consumer concerns at the FIFA World Cup … All this and e-micromobility with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.     Links:    Henry Ergas, "TSLRIC, TELRIC and Other Forms of Forward-Looking Cost Models in Telecommunications: A Curmudgeon's Guide" at SSRN  Softwar by Thierry Breton and Denis Beneich at The Internet Archive  Prose and plays by Dr Lilla Csorgo   ACCC v Coles [2026] FCA 598   Mayfield v NSW Ports [2026] HCA 21 Summary and Judgment  "Why Susie sells seashells by the seashore: Implicit egotism and major life decisions", Journey of Personality and Social Psychology, 82(4) 469-487  Why all fire trucks are called Dennis  Discover your Hogwarts House at Hatty Potter Wizarding World  Julien Guyon, "Risk of Collusion: Will Groups of 3 Ruin the FIFA World Cup?"  The Disgrace of Gijon on YouTube  Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]   Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ACCC 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 of trade practices and competition law in Australia, the enduring influence of its first Commissioner and Chair and the challenges that lie ahead. Plus Woolworths and was/now pricing, Apple and app store access, and Mastercard and merchant routing in the courts; the future of cash revisited; and another Phase 2 review, this time for IAG and the RAC … All this and Bananaman with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

G+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 and infrastructure, new demand from electric vehicles and data centres, and questions about fuel price gouging and domestic gas reservation.. Plus, the first quarter of the new merger regime and another round for the MicroStar/Konvoy acquisition, our new Solicitor-General of Australia, and the Wiggles deliver their product safety podcast … All this and a muse of fire with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.     Links:    Derek Jacobi's "Wooden O" speech from Kenneth Branagh's Henry V   Dire Straits, "Heavy Fuel"  What was the googlewhack?  ACCC, "New merger regime off to a positive start"  MicroStar/Konvoy on the new acquisitions register and the old public informal review register  Attorney-General recommends Solicitor-General to Governor-General  The Wiggles' podcast on button battery and toy safety  The ACCC's weekly fuel price monitoring report   G+T on the new maximum penalties for competition and consumer contraventions  Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]   Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Legend 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 our lives, why we might or might not want them to, and how they interface with contract, competition and consumer protection law. Plus, Australia's highest individual competition law penalty in the Qteq case, and the US war against Iran brings concerns over fuel supply and pricing as well as limits on AI. All this and Maxwell Smart with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.    Links:    The ACCC's fuel price monitoring updates  Treasury Laws Amendment (Doubling Penalties for ACCC Enforcement) Bill 2026  One of the David Byrnes talks to the ABC about petrol prices  The other one sings "(Nothing but) Flowers"  Anthropic on its dispute with the Department of War and its preliminary reprieve (for now)  Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]   Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Xmas 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 for business and advisers, changes to the law and the three-body problem of competition law, consumer protection and ex ante regulation. Plus Phase 2 mergers join the school of hard NOCCs, Fortnite fans emote as Epic Games and Google settle up, and a slap on the wristband for Live Nation/Ticketmaster? All this and the Brisbane Olympics with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.   Links:    G+T on the ACCC's compliance and enforcement priorities for 2026-17  Notice of Competition Concerns summaries for Ampol/EG Australia and Coles in Kalgoorlie   All about Spudshed  Pantone 16-1350 TPG Amberglow and 17-1463 TCX Tangerine Tango  The Premier League's statement on Manchester City's 115 charges   Term sheet outlining the settlement between Epic Games and Google  AFL and NRL footy at the Brisbane Olympics?  Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]   Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Partner 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 and drip pricing, the tests and the penalties, and how businesses can prepare for the new rules. Plus, the ACCC's compliance and enforcement priorities for 2026-27, what's going down down down at the Coles pricing hearing, and even more changes to the US antitrust landscape … All this and Buffalo buffalo with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.    Links:    The Garden Palace Fire of 1882  G+T on the ACCC's compliance and enforcement priorities for 2026-17  Lian and David on the government's unfair trading practices proposal  Buffalo buffalo and had had had had  New York Times on Gail Slater's departure from the Antitrust Division  What is a possession arrow in basketball or merger review?  We're All Going to the World's Fair trailer  Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]      Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Special 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 new and now mandatory Australian merger framework, G+T's new tool to navigate all those thresholds and forms, the proposed prohibition on unfair trading practices planned for 2027, and a whistleblower bounty in the US … All this and the accidental sad horse with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.          Links:    ABC on Australia's Central Western Standard Time Zone (UTC+08:45)   The Criterion Collection on the Once Upon a Time in China series   The consolidated Notifications Determination and the Forms Determination   G+T on the merger changes that came into effect in January 2026  Our new merger assessment obligation tool: MerTL  Possibly the best book written on the subject of turtle stacking  US Antitrust Division and US Postal Service pay $1m whistleblower bounty  Check out our episode on whistleblowers with Kieran Pender from last September  No-one's far from anyone anymore with the OTC in 1990  The Guardian on the accidental sad/crying horse  Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team  Email us at [email protected]   Support the show: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.