Australia is an outlier among OECD countries with its voluntary merger regime, but that looks set to change following recent proposals from the country's antitrust regulator.

James Panichi and Laurel Henning talk through the biggest stories for MLex's Australian reporting in 2021, including criminal-cartel , antitrust developments and Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s (ACCC), continued efforts to tackle the anticompetitive behavior of Facebook, Google, and Apple in particular.

MLex's reporters have had a frantic start to 2022, with global competition lawsuits against Google and Apple spilling over into the Federal Court of Australia and a criminal-cartel prosecution involving local foreign-exchange businesses culminating in guilty pleas.

Why should Law Firms invest in technology? How can it shape their future?  What difference will technology make to everyday life at the firm? Can efficiency, productivity and successful outcomes be driven by employing the right technology infrastructure? What will the law firm of tomorrow look like?

Australia's now not-so-new Labour Party government has delivered on quite a few election promises in the six months since the May Federal election, but there's still so much to do and so much that remains unknown. In this brief discussion, Antoaneta Dimitrova, LexisNexis's Head of Current Awareness for the Pacific and Laurel Henning, MLex Senior Correspondent, discuss some of the latest policy developments, from climate change to anti-corruption and privacy law.