GOVERNMENT SPENDING POLICY

ACCC’s big tech watchdog low on funding

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Original article by Sam Buckingham-Jones
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 6-Nov-25

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has confirmed that its digital platforms team’s funding is set to lapse at the end of 2025. Sources have indicated that the team now comprises about 10 researchers, experts and lawyers, compared with more than 30 at its peak. The team was established by the former Coalition government in 2020, in response to the recommendations of an ACCC inquiry into digital platforms. Some former members of the team are said to have taken up roles at the technology compaies that it had been set up to monitor. The future of the digital platforms team is part of broader concerns about a looming ‘funding clifff’ for the federal government ahead of its mid-year budget update.

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Trump warning shocks NATO

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Original article by Jacquelin Magnay
The Australian – Page: 1 & 8 : 13-Jul-18

Members of NATO have agreed to increase their defence spending to two per cent of GDP more quickly than the current target of 2024 after US President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw from the alliance unless they did so. Trump has also signalled that he will push for NATO member countries to eventually increase their defence expenditure to four per cent of GDP. Trump has stressed that the US remains committed to NATO, and he has suggested that he probably would not need approval from Congress to withdraw the US from the alliance.

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