Gina Cass-Gottlieb can’t be a credible chair of Australia’s competition regulator — unless you think a key player for the country’s most powerful oligopolist should be in charge of regulating it, and every other competition issue.

That of course is the Australian way — we’re a country run by mates, and mates of mates, where the foundational doctrine of the current government is “we look after our mates”. Particularly when they’re Rupert Murdoch’s mates.

Cass-Gottlieb is more than a Murdoch mate.