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Macquarie Bank has agreed to a proposed $14 million penalty after admitting to failures in how it promoted introductory offers for new savings account customers.

The High Court has found the Victorian Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear a dispute between the planning minister Sonya Kilkenny and supermarket chain IGA about a proposed amendment to a council's by-laws, despite the absence of an approval decision.

A former CFMEU organiser has told the royal commission into Victoria's Big Build that a union boss said he had a "direct line" to former Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan.

The ACCC has hit back at Coles' claims that Kalgoorlie's IGA did not provide any competitive constraint, in the supermarket giant's challenge to a decision blocking the acquisition of a leasehold in the WA town.

Brookfield has added a Sydney logistics facility to its industrial portfolio, paying $203.5 million to purchase the asset from Goodman Group.

Law firm DWF Australia will face a negligence claim over an alleged failure to join other parties to a claim over a damaged pipeline, after failing to secure a summary dismissal of the matter.

A new judge described as an almost fearless “dynamo” who once took a brief eight minutes before she was due to appear has given thanks to the women who paved the way for her appointment to the court. 

Independent supermarkets should not be insulated from the effects of competition by the ACCC, Coles has told a tribunal as it challenges the watchdog's rejection of its proposed acquisition of a Kalgoorlie supermarket site.

Builder Fitzgerald Constructions has sued Cement Australia and Independent Cement alleging they breached an $80 million contract to build a storage silo in Port Melbourne. 

Victorian planning minister Sonya Kilkenny will learn Wednesday whether she has prevailed in a High Court fight with IGA over the power of the state Supreme Court to hear planning disputes.