Campervan company Apollo has offered to divest 80 per cent of its motorhome rental fleet in Australia to win ACCC approval for its tie-up with New Zealand competitor THL.
Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions Sarah McNaughton SC has been appointed as a judge on the NSW Supreme Court, bolstering the court’s criminal expertise.
Bangkok Broadcasting and Seven Networks have settled two lawsuits over the Thai broadcaster’s registration of ‘7’ marks in Australia.
The Albanese government has introduced legislation that would roll back the requirement that litigation funders hold an AFSL and register their class actions as managed investment schemes, saying the Morrison government era-regulations were not fit for purpose.
Mercedes-Benz has been hit with $12.5 million in penalties for failing to use attention capturing, high impact language when communicating with customers about a compulsory recall of potentially deadly Takata airbags.
Latitude Finance has been hit with a $1.55 million penalty by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for breaching the Spam Act on more than 3 million occasions.
Crown Resorts could be on the hook for a record $100 million fine after Victoria’s gambling regulator brought new disciplinary proceedings accusing the casino of allowing gamblers to exchange bank or blank cheques for gambling chips.
Builder J Hutchinson and the CFMEU have been fined a combined $1.35 million for entered into an anti-competitive agreement to boycott an independent subcontractor at a construction site in Brisbane.
AUSTRAC has appointed an external auditor to Perth Mint, Australia’s official bullion mint, to assess its compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.
The entity that employs the workforce of the On The Run convenience store chain has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle a class action accusing it of underpaying over 8,000 workers over a six-year period.