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Developer files appeal over $95M Hyde Park property deal
Real Estate 2025-05-21 11:39 pm By Andy Sidler

The prospective developer of the Hyde Park Inn site in Sydney is appealing a decision which rejected its bid to delay a $95 million payment to the NSW Returned Service League to settle the sale. 

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Shopping centre can’t retain $1.5M after failed $30M land purchase
Construction 2025-05-21 11:52 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A Victorian shopping centre has been ordered to pay back $1.5 million to a company that broke a contract for a $30 million land sale.

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Clayton Utz lures energy partner from Gilbert + Tobin
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-05-21 11:58 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Clayton Utz has lured a top energy and infrastructure lawyer from Gilbert + Tobin to lead its energy practice. Alexander Danne will join the Clayton Utz partnership in July and will be based at the firm’s Melbourne office. Over his more than two decade-long career, Danne has amassed extensive experience, advising major regional and international…

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Investa succeeds in challenge to $95M land valuation for Sydney’s Coca-Cola Place
Real Estate 2025-05-21 11:55 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The NSW Land and Environment Court has signed off on a land valuation agreed to between real estate investment manager Investa and the Valuer General for the site of the Coca-Cola Place tower in North Sydney.

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‘Massive and irreparable harm’: Qantas faces possible $121M fine for ground crew outsourcing
Employment 2025-05-19 11:31 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Qantas should pay a penalty of the “highest order” for outsourcing its ground crew staff during the COVID pandemic, a union has argued, while a judge has questioned if he needs to send a message that “you can’t play the court for a fool”.

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Vodafone mulls legal action against Telstra over mobile network reach claims
Telecommunications 2025-05-19 1:52 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Vodafone has referred Telstra to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and is considering taking legal action against its rival, over allegations Australia’s largest telco made deceptive mobile network reach claims.

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Class action investigation launched into herbicide’s links to Parkinson’s disease
Product Liability 2025-05-19 1:36 pm By Christine Caulfield

A class action investigation is underway into alleged links between the herbicide paraquat and Parkinson’s disease.

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SOP Act not at odds with Australian Consumer Law, judge says
Construction 2025-05-20 11:23 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A judge has found that Victoria’s SOP Act is not at odds with the Australian Consumer Law, refusing to set aside a $1.85 million adjudication determination in a dispute over a $38 million contract for a Glen Iris residential development.

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Carlyle sets sights on Australia with renewables infrastructure platform
Construction 2025-05-20 11:13 pm By Andy Sidler

US-based investment firm Carlyle has announced the launch of a clean energy infrastructure platform for the development of solar, battery storage and green hydrogen projects in Australia and the UK. 

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ABD Group liquidators win more time for $23M voidable transaction claims
Restructuring & Insolvency 2025-05-20 11:21 pm By Christine Caulfield

Liquidators of the ABD Group of construction companies have won a brief reprieve from the three-year limitation period to launch voidable transaction cases worth up to $23.2 million.

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