Senator Michaelia Cash’s former media adviser says he notified his counterpart in the office of former federal Justice Minister Michael Keenan ahead of AFP raids on the Australian Workers’ Union offices, and both alerted the media, a court heard Wednesday.
The government has introduced legislation that would make casual conversion – under which casuals can ask to be moved to a full or part-time position after 12 months – a right of all workers, but the ACTU has come out swinging against the proposal, calling it “a backdoor to casualisation”.
The law firm running a class action against sandalwood producer Quintis has pitched an unusual common fund order that subjects the firm and the funder bankrolling the case to ongoing monitoring by a cost referee.
Poppy processor TPI Enterprises has agreed to stop selling seed from high codeine poppy plants while it defends a lawsuit by rival Tasmanian Alkaloids alleging TPI infringed two of its innovation patents for high codeine-concentrated poppy.
Michaelia Cash’s former chief-of-staff, Ben Davies, was the tipster who told the minister’s ex-media adviser that federal police were planning to raid the headquarters of the Australian Workers’ Union, a court was told Tuesday.
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has slammed Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm’s attempt to stay her defamation case against him without providing evidence that the alleged misandrist comments at the heart of the proceedings were spoken in Parliament.
Technology solutions firm Byte Power Group has paid a $33,000 penalty for violating its continuous disclosure obligations by telling shareholders a proposed cryptocurrency exchange was “well advanced” when development yet to begin.
A construction company has lost its appeal of a ruling that it illegally blocked CFMMEU officials from entering a work site to meet with union members, with a judge saying the union did not need to prove intent to obstruct to make its case for violations of the Fair Work Act.
Spotless Services is challenging a ruling that it owes redundancy to three workers employed at the Perth International Airport that were on fixed contracts.
A former staffer to federal minister Michaelia Cash admitted in court Monday to alerting the media about federal police raids on the offices of the Australian Workers’ Union, but he refused to reveal who tipped him off.
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