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A Singapore-listed company that acquired former ASX-listed coal miner Blackgold International is statute-barred from claiming that Blackgold’s former lead auditor should have detected fraudulent transactions in the company’s accounts.

Central Queensland University will pay over $1.3 million to more than 1,000 employees as part of an enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman, becoming the latest university to backpay staff. 

Coles has argued that the competition regulator’s decision rejecting the supermarket giant's bid to lease a new site in Kalgoorlie, WA was based on a theory of harm that is novel under Australian law. 

The Allan Government has unveiled plans that would make it easier to sue AI and social media companies over harms to children, while also announcing a crackdown on the use of AI and employee surveillance in the workplace.

The owner of the Oaks Hotels & Resorts is facing a class action by landlords who allege the hotel operator misrepresented that it was entitled to reduced rent payments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A law firm has prevailed in a fight over unpaid legal fees, with an appeals court ruling the firm is entitled to priority over certain funds recovered in a receivership of a South Stradbroke resort because of its equitable lien over costs orders it secured for its client.

The Queensland government has used special powers to approve a major mixed-used development surrounding the Dreamworld theme park, paving the way for new resorts and residential and commercial developments.

A Southern Cross Gold unit has attacked a community group’s failure to put on evidence of its members' financial status to support claims that it can't meet the company’s $230,000 security demand in a dispute over a Victorian tunneling project. 

Waste management company Renex has filed court proceedings seeking to overturn an environmental prosecution, alleging the EPA's investigator was not properly authorised to bring the case. 

Publican Julian Gerner has “significantly” amended his claims in a dispute over the redevelopment of the Continental Hotel Sorrento, a court has heard.