Focus on Australia

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4.9 • 9 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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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. Laurel Henning and James Panichi have also been examining Australian lawmakers' slow progress in updating the 1988 Privacy Act and concerns over how big business manages personal data. For example: Why are private-health insurance companies in Australia so keen to get their hands on fitness data collected by Australian smart-watches? Laurel and James talk through the challenges and the highlights of their Australian regulatory coverage.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to all of our listeners in the LexisNexis family.
0:14.0	My name is James Panicki.
0:15.5	I'm the Asia Pacific Senior Editor with Emlex, a global media service covering regulatory affairs.
0:22.3	It's great to be with you.
0:27.5	And given that the midpoint of the year is fast approaching, we thought it would be a good opportunity for us to look back at the highlights of our coverage in the first half of 2022
0:32.6	and remind you and maybe even remind ourselves of the kinds of stories that we've been following.
0:38.7	It has been a particularly busy time for us and there's plenty to choose from.
0:44.6	Now I'm based in Melbourne, our senior reporter Laurel Henning is usually based in Sydney but happens to be with me in Melbourne at this very moment.
0:53.2	Hello Laurel, it's great to talk to you face to
0:55.9	face from the Paris end of Queen Street. Hi, James. I don't know what the other end of Queen
1:01.3	Street is called, but who knows? Look, let's kick things off maybe with an international competition
1:06.6	dispute, which we've been covering from our end here in Australia, albeit with the assistance
1:12.6	of our M-lex colleagues in Silicon Valley. Epic Games is a company best known for Fortnite, the popular
1:19.3	video game, and Epic has been in the news of late as a result of some very high-profile lawsuits.
1:25.2	We've been covering the action in the Federal Court of Australia.
1:28.7	Our M-Mex team in Silicon Valley has been covering the US side of this. But what do our colleagues
1:35.7	in LexisNexis need to know about the history of this story and why it might be of interest to our
1:42.1	subscribers? Thanks, James. So let's go all the way back to when Epic announced its Australian lawsuit against Google.
1:50.8	Well, first of all, Google, in March of 2021, expanding the game developers caught battles
1:56.5	against both Apple and Google in Australia with other legal proceedings, as you've mentioned
2:01.8	already underway in the US and also in the UK, as well as an antitrust complaint against
2:07.5	Apple in the EU. Now against Apple in Australia, Epic had already filed that lawsuit earlier
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