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Tasmanian jumping castle operator acquitted but still faces class action
Class Actions 2025-06-06 10:46 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A magistrate has cleared a Tasmanian jumping castle operator of criminal wrongdoing for her alleged role in a tragedy that killed six children in 2021, but a related class action against her and the state government will continue. 

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Salmon had to do it: New case targets Albanese fish farm carve-out in enviro law
Environment 2025-04-02 11:39 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The Bob Brown Foundation has launched a legal challenge in the Federal Court against legislation that exempts industrial salmon farms from a key environmental law.

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Tasmanian group fails to block wharf for Robbins Island wind farm
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-02-28 11:23 pm By Sam Matthews

A Tasmanian community group has lost its challenge to a decision approving the construction of a wharf to facilitate the transport of hundreds of 86 metre-long wind turbine blades for a controversial wind project on Robbins Island.

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AirServices can’t get separate hearing in airport lease fight over PFAS
Real Estate 2025-02-27 11:41 pm By Andy Sidler

A judge has rejected AirServices bid for a separate hearing on whether it was required to manage environmental issues outside of its leased site at the Launceston Airport in Tasmania.

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Favouring ‘light touch’, judge stays suit against Esso, Woodside over Bass Strait royalties
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-02-18 11:37 pm By Sam Matthews

Gas giants Esso and Woodside have won their bid to stay a court case related to a project for extracting hydrocarbons in the Bass Strait, with a judge finding the court should apply a ‘light touch’ when interpreting arbitration agreements.

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Bakers Delight challenges reverse onus finding in Fair Work case
Employment 2025-01-22 5:24 pm By Sam Matthews

Bakers Delight has filed a challenge to a finding that it was subject to a statutory reverse onus aimed at employers, in a Fair Work Ombudsman underpayments case against a franchisee.

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Union lawyers blasted for leaving worker ‘high and dry’ in dismissal case
Employment 2025-01-17 11:16 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The Fair Work Commission has described as a “disgrace” a decision by union lawyers to cease acting for an illiterate council worker who was unfairly dismissed from his job.

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Tasmanian Ports had right to boot tenant Resources Australasia, court finds
Real Estate 2025-01-17 9:46 pm By Andy Sidler

Tasmanian Ports had a right to kick wood pellets manufacturer Resources Australasia off leased property after it erected an awning structure without permission, a court has found.

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Boral changes plea to guilty in Indigenous relics case
Construction 2025-01-16 3:50 pm By Christine Caulfield

Construction materials giant Boral has pleaded guilty to interfering with Indigenous relics at a Hobart quarry.

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Class action filed over jumping castle tragedy in Tasmania
Class Actions 2024-12-16 10:41 am By Cindy Cameronne

The state of Tasmania and party supply company Taz-Zorb are facing a class action over the 2021 jumping castle tragedy that killed six children. 

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