Cat Fredenburgh

Projects by AGL and Tilt Renewables are among 20 clean energy developments to win underwriting agreements by the Albanese government in the latest tender under the capacity investment scheme.

ACE Power and Osaka Gas have won fast-track approval for a 141-megawatt solar farm and battery energy storage system in NSW, with the government signing off on the project in just 19 days.

Twenty-three barristers in NSW have joined the silk ranks, including a leading defamation lawyer who was on the Fairfax legal team that defeated accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation suit.

Commonwealth Bank's New Zealand unit, ASB Bank, has agreed to pay $119.35 million to settle a class action alleging it failed to repay fees and interest wrongly charged to 150,000 customers who took out home or personal loans.

A Victorian man has pleaded guilty and been sentenced for trading on insider information ahead of the public announcement of a $20 million share placement for medical cannabis company Cann Group.

A recent review by ASIC found 15 auditors of different sizes failed to demonstrate compliance with independence and conflict of interest obligations.

A joint venture of AGL Energy and Someva Renewables has been given the government's go-ahead for a new wind farm in NSW's Riverina region that is expected to power almost 600,000 homes.

Tabcorp has settled a lawsuit by a former CEO who alleged his coerced resignation over alleged offensive language was inconsistent with a boardroom history of condoning off-colour remarks.

Renewables project Snowy Hydro 2.0 has said it will not be able to complete the ambitious infrastructure project within its $12 billion budget, which was previously increased from $2 billion.

Singtel CEO Yuen Kuan Moon has apologised for a 13-hour outage Triple Zero across three states that has been linked to the deaths of three people, blaming the outage on a "people issue".