Companies

A judge has said there should be a joint initial trial in a class action and the privacy regulator’s case against Medibank over a 2022 cyber attack that exposed the data of almost 10 million customers.

The ABC has defeated a defamation suit by the owner of a defunct online travel agency Bestjet, with a judge finding the article in question did not convey that he was to blame for the collapse of the business.

Days out from hearing a second challenge to a native title tribunal’s decision over Santos' Narrabri gas project in New South Wales, a judge has disqualified herself from the case over her associate’s previous work for the energy giant.

Multiplex wants a court to order a third round of mediation in a case by the University of Sydney over alleged defects at the Charles Perkins Centre, but the university is not keen, and told a court Friday another defect had only recently been uncovered.

Optus has been hit with a penalty of more than $826,000 after scammers exploited a vulnerability in its third-party verification system and stole $39,000 from customers' bank accounts.

Hong Kong-based Link REIT has made a play to acquire three of five Lendlease shopping centre assets that comprise a $2.9 billion property fund that are being sold down amid a slew of redemption requests.

Underpayments class actions against Coles and Woolworths want to expand their claims to cover a longer time period, which would leave the supermarket giants with even bigger remediation bills than the $780 million estimated in the wake of a finding that underpayments cannot be set off.

Lendlease has announced it will sell down the assets in an unlisted retail property fund the real estate giant has fought to maintain control over in order to meet redemption requests.

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.

Mining giant Rio Tinto has put the development of its steel-making decarbonisation technology BioIron on ice, opting instead to invest $35 million into Calix's zero emissions steel technology demonstration plant.