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Australian Clinical Labs agrees to $5.8M penalty over data breach
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2025-09-29 12:12 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

In the first penalty to be handed down for breaches of the Privacy Act, pathology services provider Australian Clinical Labs has agreed to cop a $5.8 million fine over a 2022 data breach that compromised the personal information of 223,000 customers of its Medlab business.

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Optus reports another Triple Zero outage
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2025-09-29 12:40 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Optus has suffered another Triple Zero outage, just over a week after a 13-hour outage across three states that was linked to the deaths of three people.

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REST misled over 2,000 members about insurance cover, ASIC says
Superannuation 2025-09-29 11:40 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Super trustee Retail Employees Superannuation has paid two infringement notices after ASIC alleged it misled over 2,000 members after inadvertently activating insurance cover.

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Aware Super, Goodman team up on $2B logistics project
Article 2025-09-30 11:33 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Superannuation fund Aware Super is teaming up with Goodman Group on a $2 billion platform that owns three logistics properties in Los Angeles.

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SIXT drops bid for injunction against Darwin Airport
Real Estate 2025-09-29 1:33 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

German car hire company SIXT has dropped its bid for an injunction barring Darwin International Airport from requiring it to vacate the premises it operates out of at the airport. 

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ACCC resumes review of Acciona’s bid for East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-09-29 2:56 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The ACCC has picked up its review into Acciona’s bid to acquire the $500 million East Rockingham waste-to-energy project in Western Australia, after hitting pause last month. 

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Lederer’s takeover offer for Elanor Funds ‘neither fair nor reasonable’: report
Real Estate 2025-09-26 11:18 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Elanor Funds Management’s board on Friday unanimously recommended that securityholders reject the takeover offer and provided an expert independent report from Kroll Group that concluded the offer of $0.70 in cash per stapled security undervalued the fund.

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Seven Network faces underpayments class action investigation
Class Actions 2025-09-24 11:52 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Media giant Seven Network is facing a class action investigation into possible underpayments, including the alleged failure to pay rest breaks and overtime.

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Optus appoints Kerry Schott to investigate Triple Zero failure
Telecommunications 2025-09-24 11:58 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Optus has appointed former Sydney Water CEO and NBN Co director Kerry Schott to investigate a 13-hour Triple Zero outage linked to three deaths.

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FWO accuses CFMEU officials of threatening Indigenous labour hire firm
Employment 2025-09-24 11:30 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The FWO  has taken the CFMEU and two officials to court for allegedly threatening to ban an Indigenous work hire company from working on Melbourne construction projects and making unlawful representations about CPB Contractors’ $761 million contract for the Monash Freeway upgrade.

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