Victoria

The Victorian government has approved an environment effects statement for WestWind Energy's Warracknabeal energy park, which will be the largest wind farm in the Southern Hemisphere.

Property group Ingenia Communities is on the hook for $1.5 million for failing to supply financially vulnerable senior renters with stovetops over a five-year period.

Former CFMEU Victorian secretary John Setka has reached an agreement with the Fair Work Ombudsman in proceedings alleging he tried to coerce the AFL to sack an umpire over his previous role at the Australian Building and Construction Commission.

A judge has tossed an environmental group's bid for judicial review of a minister's approval of plans to build water regulating structures at the Nyah Floodplain in Victoria, saying the approval was contingent on plans to offset effects on the Regent parrot.

The Albanese government is planning to spend $3.8 billion more on Melbourne's Suburban Rail Loop rapid transit project, one day after it walked away from the completion of the Inland Rail project.

A joint venture contracted to build a battery storage facility in the Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub, expected to be one of the world's largest, has dropped a suit against renewables developer Equis alleging it was entitled to a 50 per cent reduction in its bank guarantees.

Insolvency firm Cor Cordis has argued the "inordinate" task of producing WIP valuation documents in former chair Bruno Secatore's case should wait until the pleadings have been finalised and security determined.

Developer H1land Group wants to revise its case against Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop Authority over a substratum land acquisition, claiming that acquiring the land under the Major Transports Projects Act amounts to equitable fraud.

Dexus and Boral have entered a joint venture to develop the Ravenhall Logistics precinct in Melbourne's west.

The High Court has been asked to overturn a ruling from the Victorian Court of Appeal that found domestic building insurance policies do not respond to when a defect arises, but rather to when loss or damage is suffered.