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A judge has held that the former environment minister's finding that part of the McPhillamy's gold mine was heritage protected was invalid. 

After building data centres in Canada and the US, Australian developer IREN has unveiled plans to build a data centre near Wagga Wagga. 

The state of Western Australia has awarded Spanish infrastructure company Acciona a contract to build a new transmission terminal south of Darkan, which will connect new renewable energy developments to existing power grids.

A contradictor has urged a judge to reject an $18 million settlement in a class action over sinking homes, saying that owners' claims that were excluded had not been fully investigated.

Law firm Levitt Robinson has denied malicious intent in the use of a cartoon depicting a petrol bowser with devil horns to advertise a class action against United Petroleum.

The director of a builder behind an apartment block in Melbourne's Caulfield South has won a challenge to a decision adding him as a respondent in a defects case brought by the development's owners corporation.

Law firm Mills Oakley is seeking summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging it gave negligent advice about demolishing an inherited property, which allegedly resulted in the loss of a capital gains tax exemption.

Tech and management consultancy Capco has won preliminary discovery orders as it considers whether it has a case against a former senior employee who resigned to work for rival NTT Data.

Clive Palmer's fugitive nephew and one-time Queensland Nickel director Clive Mensink has been found guilty of contempt for failing to comply with orders for him to be examined by liquidators.

Tossing a case by Tahmoor Coal's liquidators over a royalty deed that gave Glencore payments in perpetuity and impacted the company's sale price, an appeals court has found the deed was not unprofitable just because creditors might get a better return without it.