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Westpac pays back $50M to 47,000 underpaid staff
Employment 2025-11-14 11:39 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Westpac has paid back $50 million plus interest and super to 47,000 current and former staff who were underpaid over an 11-year period.

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Sydney developer sues Fairfax for defamation over arson story
Defamation 2025-11-14 11:54 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The owner of Sydney developer Coronation Property has sued Fairfax for defamation over a Sydney Morning Herald story that allegedly linked him to arson attacks on two childcare centres and the home of YouTuber Jordan Shanks. 

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Dexus must hand over data room Q&A in spat with APAC over confidential info
Transportation & Infrastructure 2025-11-14 11:27 pm By Christine Caulfield

Airport operator APAC has won access to Q&A logs in a data room set up by shareholder Dexus for prospective buyers, in a dispute over whether the real estate asset manager breached a confidentiality deed.

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UN appointee wants in on cases over Woodside North West Shelf extension
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-11-14 11:11 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A United Nations special rapporteur has sought to intervene in three Federal Court cases opposing the federal environment minister’s decision to approve gas giant Woodside’s North West Shelf extension.

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Link REIT in $1.5B play for Lendlease shopping centres
Real Estate 2025-11-13 11:47 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Hong Kong’s Link REIT has reportedly made an offer for a half interest in several shopping centres in Lendlease’s retail property fund.

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Ashurst hires Deloitte partner to lead infrastructure, energy transition team
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-11-13 11:32 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Ashurst has nabbed an internationally recognised infrastructure expert from Deloitte to lead Ashurst Risk Advisory’s infrastructure and energy transition team.

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BHP ordered to pay Qld coal mine workers for holiday roster
Employment 2025-11-11 11:46 pm By Christine Caulfield

BHP must compensate coal mine workers who were rostered to work at a Queensland mine on Christmas and Boxing Day without a reasonable right of refusal.

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Skycity can’t shut down case alleging discrimination against new dad
Employment 2025-11-10 1:35 pm By Cindy Cameronne

SkyCity has lost its bid to dismiss a claim by a former employee who alleges he was discriminated against because he was a parent of a newborn child and dismissed because he made whistleblower reports. 

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Australian Renewable Energy Agency pumps $45M into Fortescue solar hub
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-11-10 11:13 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency will invest $45 million into Fortescue’s first-of-its-kind solar innovation hub in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

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Acciona takes aim at ‘hopelessly flawed’ patent suit over $511M waste-to-energy plant
Intellectual Property 2025-11-07 11:47 pm By Sam Matthews

Acciona is mulling a bid to summarily dismiss a “hopelessly flawed” patent suit by its construction partner on the troubled East Rockingham waste-to-energy plant project, saying it is doomed in light of a High Court decision holding a patentee’s rights are exhausted at the time of sale.

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