Transportation & Infrastructure

After a win in their spat over the sale of Brazil's Santa Rita nickel mine, two Australian companies who held all shares in the mine's owner, Atlantic Nickel, may seek costs against Omni Bridgeway and Balance REV, the litigation funders of the loser in the case.

A class action by Sydney Trains’ operations staff, which settled for up to $7.6 million in January, will head back to the negotiating table after the registration of some 260 new group members pushed the settlement above the agreed cap.

Qantas has agreed to pay $105 million to settle a class action on behalf of hundreds of thousands of customers who allegedly never received refunds after their flights were cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

A barrister for a group of banks defending a lawsuit launched by satellite company NewSat has questioned the credentials of the defunct firm's solicitor, who has challenged the lenders' $8.9 million security for costs bid.

Three Sydney residents have appealed a ruling that gutted their suit against the city of Sydney and Transport for New South Wales alleging that a new cycleway on Oxford Street is discriminatory.

A member of a wealthy shipping dynasty and former INXS manager Maria-Christina Perez de la Sala must go back to the drawing board in her case staking a claim to her father’s estate, after a court struck out most of her case. 

Anthropic has announced it will launch operations in Australia and plans to build data centres in the country.

MidOcean Energy, backed by US private equity firm EIG, has acquired Japan power company Jera's interest in  the Gorgon and Ichthys LNG projects in Western Australia.

The government’s National Reconstruction Fund is pumping $200 million into cloud and cybersecurity company Macquarie Technology, as part of its $15 billion mandate to invest in digital infrastructure.

Infrastructure projects relating to high productivity freight networks, high capacity transport in metro areas and the clean energy economy are at the top of Infrastructure Australia's 2026 priority list.