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A judge overseeing a class action on behalf of 300,000 allegedly underpaid McDonald’s workers wants to know the monetary value of the claims, while also questioning why the initial trial in the complex case is set to run for 35 days.

Engineering firm Clough Projects Australia is challenging a judge's order staying its $54 million cross-claim against former Energy Connection joint venture partner Elecnor.

Two elections and three different Environment Ministers later, and a heritage application to protect Murujuga rock art from Woodside's activities on the North West Shelf remains undecided -- a delay blasted by a judge as unreasonable and perverse.

Singapore-based developer Maplewood Investments has acquired a 1,398 square metre site in Perth's CBD to develop a premier 835-bed student housing accommodation.

Three companies associated with the sole director of Quasar Constructions have avoided freezing orders sought by the liquidators of the defunct Sydney builder after providing undertakings to not dispose of assets.

The federal government is planning a pause on new construction rules as it aims to speed development of new housing, following feedback from its three-day economic reform roundtable. 

In a bid to snuff out the negligence claims in a recently revived case by passengers forced off a flight and strip searched at Doha airport, Qatar Airways has brought its own High Court challenge.

A court has found no legal error in a regulator’s decision to approve Woodside’s environmental plan for its Scarborough gas project in Western Australia, finding the company was not required to specify what would be an acceptable level of emissions.

Under investigation by US class action firms for a stock price crash that followed last week's announcement of a profit drop, Australian building materials giant James Hardie may also face the glare of homegrown law firms.