The federal government will take on $50 million of Rex Airlines’ debt to keep the troubled regional carrier flying.
The largest KFC franchisee in Australia has been ordered to pay damages to a former breastfeeding manager after a tribunal found she had to express milk under a tent in a doorless storeroom.
Allens has bolstered its real estate team with the recruitment of a long-time Clayton Utz partner to join its Sydney office.
Advised by Arnold Bloch Leibler, fund manager Merricks Capital has sold the $155M Melbourne Place Hotel after it opened in the Paris end of the CBD in December.
Real estate lawyer Vicki Aron has joined Clayton Utz’s Sydney office as a partner after seven years at Ashurst.
The liquidators for landbanking company Aviation 3030 can recover half of a $3.4 million landholder duty from a former director, after a judge found they reaped benefits from indirect ownership in land sold for $135 million in 2018.
Residents of a property near the historic Healesville Railway Line have failed in their bid to halt works proceeding on weekends and out of hours, with a judge calling their complaints “oversensitive”.
Engineering firm Monadelphous Group has been awarded new construction and maintenance contracts worth $150 million at a Rio Tinto iron ore mine in the Pilbara region.
Mineralogy has lost its bid for expanded discovery from CITIC in a case seeking to compel the Clive Palmer-owned tenement owner to file expansion proposals allegedly needed to maintain production at a Pilbara iron mine.
Ergon Energy is challenging a notice from the energy regulator in its probe of payments received via a Centrelink direct debit scheme, after AGL was fined $25 million for overcharging welfare recipients.