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The report examines the following 3 topics:
- recent international legislative and regulatory developments in digital competition regimes, unfair trading practices and dispute resolution
- major developments and key trends in online private messaging, app marketplaces and mobile operating systems, digital advertising technology services, and general online retail marketplaces
- potential and emerging competition and consumer issues in cloud computing, generative artificial intelligence, and online gaming.
The report reinforces the need for regulatory reform to address digital platform-related competition and consumer harms, and an economy-wide prohibition on unfair trading practices, as recommended in the September 2022 interim report of this Inquiry.
The report also recommends:
- the ACCC continue to have a monitoring function for emerging digital technologies under the proposed digital competition regime
- the Australian Government prioritise a whole-of-government approach to digital platform regulation and endorse the Digital Platform Regulators Forum (DP-REG) as a permanent forum.