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The Northern Territory has been hit with a class action over the alleged discriminatory treatment of Aboriginal Community Police Officers.

An appeals court has rejected a landowner's bid to remove a section of the Grand Pacific Walk north of Wollongong because the popular walkway deprived it of car access to its coastal property, ruling the walkway did not infringe its right of access.

Australian renewables company Goldwind has taken engineer Zenviron to court, alleging it's on the hook for $2.6 million in road rectification payments related to the construction of the Moorabool wind farm in Victoria.

Superannuation fund-owned IFM Investors has purchased four sites in high-growth Melbourne suburbs to develop into a $300 million shopping centre portfolio as part of a partnership with Fawkner Property and Oreana. 

A potential issue has arisen in a shareholder class action against Light & Wonder over an employee's theft of rival Aristocrat's trade secrets, with the court hearing the gaming company's $190 million settlement with Aristocrat requires it to destroy documents that could be relevant to the case.

A developer can't expand its case against its partners on a residential development at the site of the Lilydale Quarry weeks out from trial, with a judge saying the new claims were brought too late and would unfairly prejudice the defendants. 

A judge has said she does not want multiple expert reports in a $359 million lawsuit by builder CPB Contractors and John Holland against engineer Aurecon alleging defects in Melbourne's West Gate Tunnel.

A court has rejected a bid to undo the state significant development status of a proposed 37-storey, 100-unit shop-top housing development in Northern Sydney.

The ACT Integrity Commission has found that two senior government officials engaged in serious corrupt conduct by giving priority to the CFMEU's preferred tenderer Lendlease when awarding an $18 million school redevelopment contract. 

A judge has dismissed Woodside's bid to compel three protesters who carried out a stunt involving the release of ‘stench gas’ at its office to identify other individuals involved, calling the gas giant’s suspicions "conjecture and speculation".