Rob Nicholls
Rob Nicholls associate professor in regulation and governance at the UNSW Business School and a visiting professional fellow at UTS Sydney Law. He has also worked for law firms and the ACCC, and from 2012 to 2020 he was Australia’s Independent Telecommunications Adjudicator.
Rob's recent articles
28 March 2026
Social media ruled addictive by US jury
A landmark US verdict finds Instagram and YouTube’s design features addictive – opening the door to a wave of legal action against big tech.
3 August 2021
Fibre in the Coral Sea or message in a bottle? Who's interests are we serving?
Many have been preoccupied with the geopolitical tensions exposed by the Coral Sea Cable, continuing a longstanding – and problematic – tradition of treating the islands of the South Pacific as an empty stage on which to play out Great Power conflict.