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Report
Digital advertising services inquiry: interim report
This interim report examines the digital display advertising supply chain in Australia, which enables the near instantaneous delivery of $3.4 billion of digital display advertising opportunities on news, entertainment and other websites and apps each year.
Report
Regulating in a digital world
There is a strong feeling from the British government that self-regulation by technology companies has failed. This report sets out a series of principles that would underpin a new approach to internet governance.
Article
The ACCC's plan to reshape the media landscape
The ACCC has signalled its intention to work with the OECD and other international agencies to kickstart an international law-making effort to regulate Google, Facebook and their successors.
Report
Digital Platforms Inquiry: preliminary report
This report outlines the ACCC's concerns regarding the market power held by Google and Facebook, including their impact on Australian businesses and, in particular, on the ability of media businesses to monetise their content.
Discussion paper
Contestability in public services - an alternative to outsourcing
The public don’t like monopolies. And they are suspicious of them in the public sector as well as the private sector. Sometimes there is no other way of organising the production and delivery of goods and services, but we all know from experience that monopolies...
Report
Competition policy review
This is the first comprehensive review of Australia’s competition laws and policy in over 20 years. The National Competition Policy Review (The Hilmer Review) of 1993 underpinned the development of the National Competition Policy – a co-operative initiative of the Commonwealth and State and Territory...
Report
Protecting small business from misuse of market power
Misuse of market power is both a legal and economic concept. Prohibitions on the misuse of market power are commonly found in anti-trust laws in a number of countries and the prohibition appears as section 46 in Australia's Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA). Using predatory...
Report
Review of the competition provisions of the Trade Practices Act
On 15 October 2001, the Prime Minister announced that there would be an independent review of the competition provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974 and their administration. The Treasurer announced the terms of reference for the review and the membership of the review Committee...