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Snowy 2.0 hydro project halted amid union’s safety concerns
Environment 2025-01-30 2:59 pm By Sam Matthews

Work on the country’s biggest renewables project has again halted after the AWU again raised safety concerns about the use of ‘refuge chambers’ on the project. 

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Victoria says pepper spray class action about protestor ‘misbehaviour’
Class Actions 2025-01-28 11:11 pm By Sam Matthews

Defending a class action brought over Victoria Police’s use of force against protestors at a mining conference in 2019, the state has told a court the case would centre on when peaceful protesting crosses a line.

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In win for union, court muzzles St Vincent’s talk on bed closures
Employment 2025-01-24 11:44 pm By Sam Matthews

A nurses union has won orders barring St Vincent’s Private from representing to nurses that protected industrial action in relation to the closure of beds at various hospitals is unlawful and unprotected.

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Lendlease wins appeal over Circular Quay land valuation
Construction 2025-01-29 11:22 pm By Christine Caulfield

Lendlease’s appeal of the NSW Valuer General’s land value determinations of luxury residential tower One Circular Quay has prevailed.

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Indigenous child removal class actions slam ‘masked’ government files
Class Actions 2025-01-24 10:20 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Lawyers representing two class actions against the state of Queensland over alleged unlawful removals of Indigenous children have called on the state to produce unredacted files about the lead applicants.

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Citing class action, VCAT rejects MP’s bid for hotel quarantine docs
Class Actions 2025-01-24 11:51 pm By Andy Sidler

A bid by Victorian Liberal MP David Davis for documents on the state’s hotel quarantine program has largely failed, with a tribunal finding their release could prejudice an ongoing class action.

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Ashurst loses real estate partner to Clayton Utz
Real Estate 2025-01-28 11:55 pm By Christine Caulfield

Real estate lawyer Vicki Aron has joined Clayton Utz’s Sydney office as a partner after seven years at Ashurst.

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Court won’t restrain work on Healesville Railway Line reconstruction
Construction 2025-01-28 11:03 pm By Andy Sidler

Residents of a property near the historic Healesville Railway Line have failed in their bid to halt works proceeding on weekends and out of hours, with a judge calling their complaints “oversensitive”.

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Engineering firm Monadelphous wins $150M contract with Rio Tinto
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-01-28 10:54 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Engineering firm Monadelphous Group has been awarded new construction and maintenance contracts worth $150 million at a Rio Tinto iron ore mine in the Pilbara region. 

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Mineralogy can’t get more discovery from CITIC in $12B Pilbara mine feud
Appeals 2025-01-23 4:27 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Mineralogy has lost its bid for expanded discovery from CITIC in a case seeking to compel the Clive Palmer-owned tenement owner to file expansion proposals allegedly needed to maintain production at a Pilbara iron mine.

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