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Buildcorp entitled to payment for variation works to Blues Point Tower: court
Construction 2025-06-17 11:32 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The owners of the Blues Point Tower in the Sydney harbourside suburb of McMahons Point must cough up additional payments to builder Buildcorp after it undertook remediation work on the heritage-listed tower. 

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Woodside faces new legal challenge to North West Shelf extension
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-06-17 11:14 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

An activist group has launched a legal challenge to Woodside’s proposed North West Shelf gas venture extension to 2070, seeking judicial review of Western Australia’s approval decision.

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MinRes, Chris Ellison avoid class action’s early bid for ASIC, ATO docs
Class Actions 2025-06-13 11:32 pm By Sam Matthews

Mineral Resources and founder Chris Ellison have avoided a shareholder class action’s bid for early discovery of documents — including those produced to ASIC and the ATO — after Ellison argued it should wait until “numerous admissions” are made. The Phi Finney McDonald class action, filed in the Supreme Court of Victoria on 31 March,…

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‘All things must pass’: Supreme Court farewells ‘master of the single sentence’
Business of Law 2025-06-13 11:17 pm By Andy Sidler

Pithy one-liners and even pithier rulings are just part of NSW Supreme Court judge James Stevenson’s legacy as he steps down from the bench, bringing to an end a class of judicial staffers known as “Team Stevo”

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Allens, HSFK behind Abu Dhabi oil giant’s $30B takeover bid for Santos
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-06-16 11:01 pm By Christine Caulfield

A consortium led by the investment arm of Abu Dhabi’s National Oil Company has launched a $30 billion takeover bid for Santos, the energy giant said Monday.

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Aurizon secures $1.5B contracts with BHP for copper mine logistics
Transportation & Infrastructure 2025-06-16 11:44 pm By Christine Caulfield

Rail operator Aurizon has secured agreements with BHP to provide logistics for the mining giant’s South Australia copper operations over the next 15 years, estimating total revenues of $1.5 billion.

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Mobil admits ACCC’s claim it misled consumers about fuel, says it lost money
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-06-13 9:02 am By Sam Matthews

Mobil Oil has admitted it misled consumers by falsely claiming it was selling a specific brand of fuel at Far North Queensland petrol stations, but cites the challenges of supplying the fuel to the region, which it says was a loss-making exercise. 

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Clough’s $54M cross-claim stayed in feud with JV partner over EnergyConnect project
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-06-13 11:49 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge has stayed engineering firm Clough’s $54 million cross-claim against its former joint venture partner on the EnergyConnect transmission project, Elecnor, saying the claim must be sent to arbitration.

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Griffith University to pay $8.34M to underpaid staff
Employment 2025-06-12 11:04 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Griffith University has signed an enforceable undertaking to backpay $8.34 million in wages, interest and superannuation to 5,457 staff who were underpaid over a nine-year period.

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Sydney Fish Market operator loses bid for stash of docs on new development
Construction 2025-06-12 11:43 pm By Sam Matthews

After describing the $836 million project for a new Sydney Fish Market as “an architecturally designed death knell to the NSW seafood industry”, the market operator has mostly lost its application to make Infrastructure NSW hand over 100 project documents.

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