News: FXJ Australia's Nine Entertainment to buy Fairfax Media for $1.6 bln, page-17

The merger will need to be approved by the ACCC. The experience with the NZCCC, which attentive FXJ shareholders know about, suggests that there is no guarantee that competition watchdogs will roll over to arguments that the media consolidation is necessary in small markets in order to cope with structural decline in print ad revenue and massive digital competitors in the form of Google and Facebook.

This is exactly the same argument that Hywood and Marks were running yesterday. So far have seen limited mention in press coverage of the deal about the NZCCC experience as a counter factual to ACCC approval. The AFR has certainly ignored it in its coverage. It's article on ACCC element seems to treating as a fait accompli. Am I wrong to compare AUS to NZ?