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Boral expands Melbourne footprint with Wallan Concrete plant purchase
Construction 2025-05-20 11:08 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Building materials giant Boral has acquired the Wallan Concrete plant 45km north of Melbourne’s CBD for an undisclosed sum, two months after its purchase of a Victorian sand producer.

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Modco liquidators can pursue different unfair preferences claims in ‘mothership’ case
Construction 2025-05-20 11:35 pm By Christine Caulfield

The liquidators for defunct Perth builder Modco Residential have won court approval to bring claims for unfair preferences and unreasonable director-related transactions against multiple defendants in one “mothership” case.

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EnergyAustralia admits carbon credits don’t undo harms of fossil fuels
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-05-19 11:14 pm By Andy Sidler

EnergyAustralia has admitted that its ‘Go Neutral’ carbon offset product did not prevent or reverse the harms associated with the burning of fossil fuels. 

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Software engineer resolves sex discrimination case against Xero
Employment 2025-05-19 2:12 pm By Christine Caulfield

An engineer who sued accounting software company Xero, alleging she was paid a lower salary than male colleagues, has resolved her case.

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No loss proven in CBA cases, but all is not lost for shareholder class actions
Analysis 2025-05-16 11:01 pm By Christine Caulfield

In explaining where CBA shareholders went wrong in proving damages from the bank’s omissions over an AUSTRAC probe, the Full Federal Court has given class action plaintiffs the clearest indication yet of how they might win.

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Full Court cans Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation appeal
Appeals 2025-05-16 10:54 am By Sam Matthews

A court has rejected Ben Roberts-Smith’s appeal of a decision that found he committed war crimes in Afghanistan, as well as the disgraced soldier’s bid to re-open the case in light of a secret recording of Nine journalist Nick McKenzie. 

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Secret recording of Nine journalist no smoking gun: appeals court
Appeals 2025-05-16 11:39 pm By Sam Matthews

A secret recording of Nine journalist Nick McKenzie speaking to a witness in the case may have been “doctored” and had to be “treated with caution,” the Full Court said Friday.

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JB Hi-Fi class action judge says 30 per cent GCO ‘a good deal’
Class Actions 2025-05-16 1:47 pm By Andy Sidler

A judge hearing Maurice Blackburn’s application for a 30 per cent group costs order in a consumer class action against JB Hi-Fi has opined that an all-in group costs order was a better deal for group matters than the return in a typical funded case.

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Former EY partner banned for alleged tax evasion
Tax 2025-05-16 4:16 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A former EY partner who is in court over an alleged tax exploitation scheme has been banned for five years by the Tax Practitioner’s Board, which claims he engaged in “serious, deliberate and dishonest” misconduct. 

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John Pesutto owes $2.3M in costs in Moira Deeming defamation suit
Defamation 2025-05-16 4:38 pm By Andy Sidler

Former Victorian Liberal party leader John Pesutto has been ordered to pay $2.3 million in costs in MP Moira Deeming’s defamation suit over statements found to have conveyed that she had links to neo-Nazis. 

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