March 2025 final report31 Mar 2025

On 23 June 2025, the ACCC released the final report of the Digital Platform Services Inquiry.

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.

See: Digital Platform Services Inquiry – March 2025 final report

Submissions to issues paper

The ACCC received submissions in response to the issues set out in the issues paper from interested parties.