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Class action probe targets Queensland over youth detention centres
Class Actions 2025-09-01 4:28 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Queensland is facing a class action investigation on behalf of detainees who were allegedly subjected to isolation, excessive force and other harmful conditions at five youth detention centres in the state. 

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Mirvac to partner with Mitsubishi Estate on $2B Harbourside project
Construction 2025-09-02 11:56 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Mirvac has entered into a joint venture with Japanese developer Mitsubishi Estate to deliver a mixed-use precinct in Sydney’s Darling Harbour, estimated to have an end value of over $2 billion. 

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Conditions for Ark Energy’s Tassie wind farm tweaked after activists’ challenge
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-09-02 11:21 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A Tasmanian community group has lost its appeal against a decision by a local council to grant a permit for Ark Energy’s proposed St Patricks Plains Wind Farm, but a tribunal has ordered the wind farm to tweak its plans.

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Lendlease, Mirvac shortlisted to redevelop former VicRoads building
Construction 2025-09-02 11:22 pm By Christine Caulfield

Plans to transform the site of the former VicRoads in Kew have progressed, with four developers invited by the Victorian government to put forward development proposals, including Lendlease and Mirvac.

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Liberal deputy Sam Groth launches privacy suit over Herald Sun articles
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2025-09-01 11:38 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Victorian Liberal deputy leader Sam Groth and his wife, Brittany, have launched the first privacy suit of its kind over two Herald Sun articles that speculated about whether their relationship began when Brittany was underage.

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Judge predicts companies will try to block team-ups by class action firms
Class Actions 2025-08-29 11:54 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A Federal Court judge has predicted class action defendants will start arguing law firms cannot cooperate in running class actions, after a different judge hearing a case against Google recently remarked that such arrangements could be anti-competitive. 

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Class action expert concerned about ‘spike’ in contingency fees
Class Actions 2025-08-29 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A class actions expert has found there has been a spike in contingency fee rates in Victoria over the last two years, expressing concerns that the regime enacted in 2020 may be going in a different way than intended. 

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Contingency fee of 33% justified in novel Sportsbet class action: judge
Class Actions 2025-08-29 11:56 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has approved a 33 per cent group costs order in a class action against Sportsbet, saying the relatively high rate was justified by the risks of running the “relatively novel case”, which seeks repayment of gambling losses stemming from allegedly unlawful services.

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Failed construction company director owes liquidator $10M, court says
Construction 2025-09-01 11:53 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A court has ordered the de facto director of failed construction company Trinco to pay its liquidator $10 million, finding that the builder had been trading while insolvent since 2018.

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Downer EDI wins spat with builder over $22M payment claim
Construction 2025-08-29 11:46 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has found that builder DT Infrastructure’s application for adjudication of a $22 million payment claim against Downer EDI was discharged by Downer paying off a smaller claim of less than $1 million, which was the only amount expressly referred to in DTI’s application.

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