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Three million Australians have downloaded the government’s CovidSafe contact tracing app in three days, as the government followed an Asia-Pacific wave. -
Lawyers for Australia & New Zealand Banking Group, Citigroup Global Markets and Deutsche Bank Australia had a clear goal when they entered a local Sydney court on Dec. 5 to cross-examine witnesses in the criminal-cartel case against the lenders. -
Allegations that Google violated Australian competition laws when it imposed restrictions on local digital startup Unlockd are being investigated by the country’s antitrust watchdog, MLex has learned. -
Australia’s competition regulator could use criminal obstruction charges leveled at former BlueScope Steel manager Jason Ellis as an example for future cartel probes, an ex-US Department of Justice official has said. -
When New Zealand scrapped the joint-venture exemptions under the country’s competition law in 2017, few mourned their passing. “They were a dog,” one lawyer told MLex recently. “They were form over substance and very difficult to apply.” -
If Australian competition law is a circus, then Rod Sims is the man in the big tent sporting a top hat and tails, spinning priceless porcelain plates. -
When word got out last week that Norwegian shipping line Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean had been added to a growing list of companies on the receiving end of criminal-cartel prosecutions in Australia, there was some surprise among the country’s competition-law practitioners. -
Until relatively recently, there was little to indicate that Australia was on the cusp on a regulatory push that might keep Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies awake at night. -
The global momentum around consumer data rights is arriving in New Zealand, the country’s top privacy official has said, with pressure from the financial industry for the country to introduce open banking systems only expected to grow throughout 2020.