Bumps and breakthroughs: the journey of Australia's merger reforms

Bumps and breakthroughs: the journey of Australia's merger reforms

On 1 August, I addressed the Committee for Economic Development of Australia on the history of merger reform.

Policy and laws should evolve as the economy evolves. But as history shows, Australia’s ad‑hoc approach to dealing with anti‑competitive mergers hasn’t kept up, lagging best practice in comparable countries.

Full text of the speech can be found here.

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Why the nation’s biggest foundation should be Australia’s epicentre for randomised trials

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On 17 January 2022, I discussed my new book, ‘What's the Worst That Could Happen? Existential Risk and Extreme Politics’ with Julian Huppert at a Cambridge University event, jointly hosted by Jesus Co...

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On 21 December 2021, Andrew chatted with ABC Brisbane’s Steve Austin about ‘What’s the Worst That Could Happen? Existential Risk and Extreme Politics’.

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What‘s the Worst That Could Happen - A Conversation with Brain Schmidt

What's the Worst That Could Happen - A Conversation with Brain Schmidt.

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Talking with Chris Bowen about his book ‘Labor People‘

Talking with Chris Bowen about his book 'Labor People'.

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Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges

Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges

On 10 November 2021, the Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges (for which I’m a commissioner) held a panel discussion to preview the report’s findings. The speakers Julian Ellio...

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Understanding Immigration - a conversation with Abul Rizvi

Abul Rizvi is one of Australia’s foremost experts on immigration, having served at senior levels in the immigration department. We talked about his new Monash University Publishing book “Population Sh...

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Andrew Wear in conversation about his new book ‘Recovery‘

Andrew Wear in conversation about his new book ‘Recovery‘

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