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ACCC should ‘have another look’ at AGL’s Liddell plans, says MP
Calling on the competition chief to "have another look" at AGL's decision to shutter its Liddell plant, Liberal MP Craig Kelly says the power company's conduct makes for a clear case under the new misuse of market power provision of Australia's competition law. 
IP Australia rejects SNF challenge to BASF mining patent
The Australian Patent Office has shot down a challenge by SNF to a BASF application for a mining patent.
BHP wins halt of FWC’s alternative-work decision
A BHP subsidiary has won a reprieve pending appeal of a Fair Work Commission decision that found it acted unreasonably when it failed to consider alternative work for an incapacitated miner.
CSIRO wins challenge to Rio Tinto patent
CSIRO has won a challenge to an application for a mining patent filed by mining giant Rio Tinto, with an IP Australia delegate finding no patentable subject matter could be claimed.
High Court refuses Newcastle port appeal in access dispute
The High Court of Australia has rejected an appeal by the Port of Newcastle to overturn a decision that declared the shipping channel at the port and gave the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission regulatory power to settle access disputes.
Magic Circle firm to rep Rio Tinto in ASIC case
Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance will represent Rio Tinto as it faces legal action in Australia over allegedly misleading investors about the coal reserves of a Mozambique mining company it acquired for $4 billion in 2011.
FWC won’t delay super union merger
The Fair Work Commission has refused a bid by an employer group to halt the merger of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and two other unions while a challenge is heard.
BHP should have considered other work for miner: FWC
A BHP subsidiary acted unreasonably when it failed to consider alternative work for an incapacitated employee and instead sent him home without pay for three weeks, a Fair Work Commissioner has found.
ASIC brings action against Antares Energy, ex-CEO
The securities regulator is going after failed oil prospector Antares Energy and its former chief executive James Cruickshank after they told investors about offers for its oil and gas interests in western Texas that never materialised.
ASIC sues Rio Tinto and former execs
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has lodged a case in Federal Court against Rio Tinto, its former CEO and former CFO over allegedly misleading market statements it made about the reserves of a recent $4 billion acquisition, a controversy that has already landed the mining giant in hot water with regulators in the UK and US.